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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am renowned for my patience.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I imagine that the direction in which I intend to go will not come as complete shock. Water quality has been a huge issue in Dundalk for a considerable amount of time and in the mid- to north-Louth area in particular. It is fair to say that people have even to a degree gotten used to having brown water. I was in a chip shop the other day and somebody asked me if I wanted tap water or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am sorry to interrupt, but are there now checks in Cavanhill for catching this that were not there previously?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Does Irish Water have any notion of the timeline for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: No, I mean with the setting up of that programme, which is obviously a long-term fix.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Can I ask-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will be very brief. Communications is a difficulty, and it is an area in which I think there is still much improvement to be made. This flushing process is not yet over, and the date of 14 September was not met. That is fine, but people need to know that and then they will accept that. The last correspondence I have relates to 14 September, which includes, as I said, an incomplete list...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am accepting-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: As far as Mr. Cuddy is concerned, the flushing process has finished for the main part.

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (29 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I was considering raising a number of points, starting with unfairness. Deputies will know the example of the person on €135,000 who will get a tax break of €830 and the person on €35,000 who will only get €190. I was going to go through each issue individually, but then I said "Maybe not", because what are we doing here? We all accept that we are in the middle...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: As already said by Deputies across both sides of this Chamber, the reality is there are a very large number of people on very low wages and they are literally being excluded from the social housing list on the basis of anomalies that might appear in their income in a particular year because of shift allowances and so on. This may leave them in a set of circumstances where they cannot rent....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (28 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his Department's plans for funding local authorities in the next 12 months to carry out planned maintenance on their housing stock; if he will provide a breakdown by each local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46966/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Conference on the Future of Europe and Other Matters: European Movement Ireland (28 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will start with the Conference on the Future of Europe, the idea of the convention and everything that was done imperfectly from the point of view of the conference, especially at the beginning. The idea that greater and more consistent interaction with citizens is needed and that Europe is well removed from a considerable number of people was a big thing. Anyone who goes out into the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Conference on the Future of Europe and Other Matters: European Movement Ireland (28 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Even as I meandered

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Conference on the Future of Europe and Other Matters: European Movement Ireland (28 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is. It is a very small point. In fairness it was an interesting question that European Movement Ireland asked on whether EU countries should be allowed to delay meeting EU environmental targets in order to deal with the current energy crisis. That will mean something different to every person.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Conference on the Future of Europe and Other Matters: European Movement Ireland (28 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is probably where an awful lot of people are in thinking that if we are talking about risking the fact that we have no fuel or we cannot do x, y or z or have lights on in the house or whatever, then that is a problem. I suppose to sell the necessary moves in climate change, whether it is in Ireland or across Europe, the idea that we are going to have to sell is that some of these moves,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Conference on the Future of Europe and Other Matters: European Movement Ireland (28 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In fairness, there has been a considerable amount of agreement across the room. I agree with all that has been said and the need for a continuation and possibly an upscaling of citizen engagement. This is a single transferable speech in the sense that there are those at the periphery who are removed from politics on every level. I would have thought that was another failing. It was...