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Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Garda.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I take on board what the Minister of State has said. We will put the amendment so we can amend our amendment. The big piece I want out of this is the code of practice, which would be provided to all the necessary stakeholders. Beyond that, I ask the Minister of State to look at the problem I am talking about and having something in the legislation. It could be just the need. That is...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are talking about a very small number of people. An involuntary admission should be the last thing we look for, but there are cases where it is absolutely necessary. I will not get into the details of another case I recall, but we were dealing with somebody who had become a danger to himself and others. He had been well beyond a nuisance for a considerable time and had caused a huge...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Many of the circumstances we are discussing we encounter in our work as TDs. I have gone to the Minister of State previously to discuss such circumstances, in which families, the Garda and others who become involved have looked for someone to be involuntarily admitted, generally on the basis that the person has some form of psychosis. Unfortunately, sometimes when GPs are called out, even...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I imagine everybody in here to speak on this has dealt with those who have not been able to avail of mental health supports on the basis of addiction to alcohol or drugs, or both. We are talking about incredibly complex cases. I would welcome the tenor of what the Minister of State is saying, but we are dealing with too many cases where there has been an inability to provide people with the...

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is hard to believe that we are having this debate. There is absolute acceptance that Israel is an apartheid state that is engaged in genocidal action in Gaza. Another 25 people were killed at a so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid station. I do not know what defence there can be for what Israel is doing on a day-by-day basis. At least 55,000 people have been slaughtered and there...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I welcome what the Minister of State said at the end. I will provide the information explicitly because it is absolutely necessary. While all this is commendable with regard to cancer care, it does not deal with the issue at hand, which is this child who was diagnosed with hyperinsulinism, and the fact that we have the machine here to carry out this PET-CT scan. There is an issue with...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is also the issue with regard to the payment. Our own health service, the HSE, should have played a better role in ensuring those bits could be dealt with.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I appreciate the flexibility the Chair has offered me, but I will need an answer. We need a solution with regard to this. I do not think this is good enough for this family or any other family that finds themselves in these circumstances. The only good news is that the child was seen and dealt with and is thriving at the moment.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: And deliver the service.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Before I turn to my main issue, but on the basis that this is health-related, I commend the staff in Our Lady of Lourdes hospital where I had to undergo a testing procedure. All is very well but I must say the staff there were incredibly professional and made something that should not be enjoyable in any way as enjoyable as it could be and definitely as painless as it could be. I just want...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I welcome everyone. On some level, it is always unfortunate that we have to address the issues that are being addressed. The one time everyone might agree with me is in commending Ms Darmody on the huge work and service she has done to her brothers and all the other Neils and Johns who are out there, of which there are a huge number. Ms Darmody said it herself: what we are looking at is...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: So we have not knocked on people's doors on private capacity. The other question I want to follow up on relates to school-based therapies, which the Taoiseach keeps talking about and we all want to see. Is there any detail with regard to a timeline in delivering that across the board?

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Schools will still demand them and all the rest, no matter what.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Apologies for being late but I had to participate in a radio interview and speak in Leinster House. I managed to do it all very badly but I got it done. I have not had the chance to address Mr. Walsh, Mr. Sherwin and Ms Quigley. This issue has been raised with me. As much as we are all delighted with what Cara Darmody has done, and where there is a whole focus on delivering in the field...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is also the very specific issue of deaf-blindness. I know we are going to talk about accessibility. Obviously, we are dealing with a cohort where it is incredibly difficult. I accept that reasonable accommodations have been reasonable but we are neither next nor near that at the minute.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is resourcing and the framework. We need to do a piece of work on how we implement the framework. Cara Darmody and Mark Darmody have said it straight. We are in the position we are in and we do not see that this going anywhere right. Our guests have said that the conversations have not even happened with stakeholders. It would be worthwhile if we did a piece of work on this, in the...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Continued failure is unacceptable and impacts on too many.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It would be good to have a timeline for when the Minister of State sees that business case being in place. I think we all agree on the necessity of renewables and decarbonisation. We have seen some district heating projects that make complete sense where waste energy, rather than remaining waste, is piped in and used as a means of providing heat. We need as much as possible of this done as...