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Committee on Disability Matters: Participation in Community Life for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Does it need any more? The big one is making sure we have sustainable disability cycling groups. There will be a need for supports from the Government and local authorities for that.

Committee on Disability Matters: Participation in Community Life for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Obviously, the supports for the disability cycling groups-----

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (22 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 32. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider applying at the point of sale a zero rate of VAT on aids and appliances designed for usage by people with visual impairments, given the recent increased flexibility under EU VAT law and given the administrative burdens relative to the VAT refund order currently in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57540/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (22 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Third National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence 2022-2026 will run until June 2026, or to the end of 2026; if there will be a public consultation drafting a new national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57560/25]

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Joe Neville - To discuss issues concerning the Ryevale House IPAS centre in Leixlip, County Kildare. Deputy Malcolm Byrne - To discuss ongoing human rights abuses against the Uyghurs. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - To...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Tá Ceist Uimh. 97 in ainm an Teachta Cleere ach tá an Teachta Lahart á thógáil ar a shon.

Irish Unity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Partition has been a failure. It has a been failure for those communities, North and South. It has been a failure for unionists, nationalists and others. The Minister of State would agree with me in relation to that. Let us be absolutely clear, there has been an abject failure by this Government in relation to the necessary work as regards planning. Even for people who do not believe...

Finance Bill 2025: Second Stage (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This budget and this Finance Bill are beyond disappointing. It is straightforward. It is a budget that abandons working people to look after those at the very top. The Finance Bill is nothing but a huge level of broken promises, including on income tax and renter's tax credit. There are no changes to income tax for workers in the middle of what is a cost-of-living crisis that I assume...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Taoiseach is just running down the clock in order that he will not have to answer the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We support Ukraine in the context of the absolutely brutal invasion by Russia. We would like to see proper development of a peace process and to do anything we can to facilitate that. We all know that communications from the White House are, at times, not necessarily things we can absolutely stand by. There is talk of a Trump-Putin summit in Budapest. The Taoiseach has had engagement on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his participation in meetings of the coalition of the willing in support of Ukraine. [51664/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure will next meet. [51663/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We have to see delivery of the catchment flood risk assessment and management, CFRAM, programme on flood protections, even in the short term. In estates like the one I am from, Bay Estate, there are issues with people trying to get flood insurance. Some who have bought houses recently are looking for letters of comfort which people used to get from the local authority, but are no longer...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the engagement there has been at EU level on the EU-Israel agreement and the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57039/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 158. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on his recent engagements in relation to Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57038/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that children with disabilities are frequently granted exemptions from studying Irish in order to access special educational needs support; if she accepts that this practice effectively denies these children access to the Irish language curriculum on the basis of their disability; if she will outline the steps she is taking to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Irish Language (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 709. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware that, 100 years after the foundation of the State, there is still no statutory provision for childcare services through the medium of Irish, outside of the Gaeltacht; if she accepts that this represents a significant gap in the State's commitment to the Irish language; and the steps she intends to take to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 741. To ask the Minister for Health if she will clarify whether a frontier worker, who is living in the North and working in the South, has an entitlement to a PCRS medical card; the criteria for obtaining this medical card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56559/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 916. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he is aware that, in the 13 years since the enactment of the Gaeltacht Act 2012, only three Irish Language Networks have been formally recognised under the Act in 2021; that no new call for applications has been issued since then; if he will outline when the next statutory round of applications for Irish Language Networks...