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Other Questions (Resumed): School Accommodation (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I suppose on some level this is one of the few instances where it crosses the Minister's Department and also that of the Minister, Deputy Harris, in respect of further education. I could be slightly off on my figures but I am going to say the school has a relatively small population of 275 but it is operating in a DEIS area. I can only speak in the highest terms about the specific...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I apologise for being late. I heard everything that was said in the meeting while I travelled in the car on my way here. To say I did more than hear it would be madness. I managed to take some notes when I was stopped at red lights. I have spoken to Mr. Harris before about these issues. A huge amount of work has been done by members of the committee. Fair play to the Chairman, who has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am fairly sure Mr. Harris answered. That was a lot more coherent than the questions he was asked. I imagine the Cathaoirleach will deal with this. In my garble, what I managed not to see until now is the issue of augmentative and alternative communication, AAC. Specifically we saw rapid prompting method, RPM, working with Fiacre Ryan, but at some level, we are not too worried. Whatever...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am curious. Will Dr. Craddock further explain the issue of the off-ramp and the 60 km/h? I get some of what he talked about regarding the difficulties with shared spaces. I am tangent-ing on this, not for the first time. When I was on the transport committee, we dealt with a huge piece on e-scooters. We heard from the National Council for the Blind and a number of organisations...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Louth County Council attempted to do it but with one of the pieces of work we all gave out that it was going to slow traffic. I will not get into the rights and wrongs of how it worked out but it was that idea. Where there was insufficient room to put a cycle lane it became a shared space. The idea was that it would work on the basis that one slowed everything down. I am not sure if it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It was not going to work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is the problem. We are in the age where context does not exist.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Of course it is, and probably making more sensible options. It is also accepting that we are not going to get a lot of these things perfectly right and systems will need to be constantly reviewed. We all get the idea that the best case scenario is that the research is done. Reasonable accommodations can never be perfect but they can be better. If we can build guidelines in, well then...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Rather than the long term.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are living longer so it is going to be a bigger issue. As elected representatives we come across these cases and they are always a disaster but half of the problem is that the house is not suited to the alterations that are needed, or the cost is just too much

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is it. The National Disability Authority will have its cost benefit analysis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What about the autism-specific piece?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I would imagine it is the same elsewhere.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: One is also doing it in the context of trying to build in active living and all of those other factors.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: And also for those who do not need to use it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The context includes the fact that we have a huge housing issue in general and that we need more, quicker and better.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It will never be perfect.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress being made to open additional units for children for September 2023 with autism at primary and second level schools in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22883/23]

Control of Exports Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is very close to the topic. It relates to taxation from the point of view of remote working, North and South. The matter relates to PayPal. Some 120 staff of the latter had to be transferred to PayPal UK lately because they are remote working and it is no longer possible for them to continue to be paid in the South. There are obviously particular conditions around that. However, we...

Control of Exports Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What we see in the Bill is the laying down of the necessary legislative framework. We are speaking about the export of items that can be used for civil or military purposes and for the control of the provision of brokering services and technical assistance and of the transit of those items. We all have big worries about the sale of weapons. We are especially worried about weapons of mass...