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Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: -----the difficulty with reconfiguring the market, but that is it. We all get it. There is a limited supply. There are links along that supply chain. I get it. If the Government and the European Union do not take action, there will be people who will try to make money at every level-----

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: -----and across the board and we will face companies being closed and families being put under severe pressure. We know the Government has not done the work on ensuring we have the generation capacity. We know it has not done the work on renewables. We know the planning mess there is. We know we cannot deliver what we need to deliver in respect of offshore wind. The Government should...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I imagine a significant amount of this has been dealt with, and we all get the logic of the cost-of-living move, but that only works if people are getting the saving by being able to get their kids on the buses. We know the issue with concessionary tickets. It is a mess every year and we need a review that will deal with that. I used to think at times that politicians were quite happy with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What sort of numbers are we talking about? Are we talking close to 6,000?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Will there be an attempt to deal with all of those?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Again, is there a cost factor? Do any other obstacles exist, for example with regard to capacity? At some point last year, I think we were carrying about 121,400 pupils anyway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What does the Minister think the cost of this will be? What are the obstacles in terms of ensuring we have capacity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Hopefully we will have a solution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Process: Engagement with Ambassador of North Macedonia (21 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I apologise. I had to be in three different places at once and I did them all badly. I am sure a number of people have covered what I will deal with. I imagine that the western Balkans and North Macedonia have probably felt they paid a high price, to use the ambassador's term, to enter negotiations. Could we get more information about that? It is fair to say the conversation about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Process: Engagement with Ambassador of North Macedonia (21 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: They are not as important as me.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Natural Resources (20 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Always take the opportunity.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (20 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We all get the importance of remote working, especially in the circumstances in which we find ourselves, where it may be beneficial for people to reduce the amount of commuting they are doing - for multiple reasons at this stage. Those figures are definitely heading in a better direction than they have been. We just need to ensure that it is acceleration, acceleration, acceleration. I know...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (20 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I welcome the fact that the Minister of State has an interaction with Eir from the point of view of delivering more at its end and the fact that NBI obviously has a serious capacity but, at the end of the day, this is all about ensuring that we accelerate this as much as possible, especially to reach areas that have been and will be waiting for broadband for a considerable length of time....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (20 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the roll-out of the national broadband plan; the number of premises that have been passed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45632/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (20 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What is the status of the roll-out of the national broadband plan and what is the number of premises that have been passed? Are we are likely to make the target of 102,000 premises, realising we are much behind where we thought we would have been? In further questioning I will speak about acceleration.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: On the European solidarity windfall tax, who would be liable within the State in that regard? The Minister has spoken about how difficult it is to reform energy markets but we could all make the argument that perhaps we should have started this conversation earlier. We must do whatever we can at this time, however. The Minister has raised the fact that we are dealing with a wartime...

National Retrofit Plan: Motion [Private Members] (20 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Regarding the better energy warmer homes scheme, it has already been said that we have 9,000 households awaiting works and an average wait time of approximately 27 months. That should tell the Minister straight out that this is not working. We all accept that we need to make huge inroads on climate action. I think everyone would accept that we are in a very different world now and we need...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagements that he has had in recent weeks regarding the security and cost of the State’s energy supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45631/22]