Results 4,081-4,100 of 6,508 for speaker:Ruairí Ó Murchú

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (5 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 424. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the month in which the foreign birth register applications currently being worked on were received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18273/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected timeframe for the implementation of the new front-loaded special needs assistant, SNA, model detailing the delays; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17868/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the roll-out of the front-loaded allocation model; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17869/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to ensure the equal distribution of special needs assistants across the school system, including new and developing schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17870/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (5 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the leaving certificate orals and music practical exams will permanently take place in the first week of the Easter holidays. [18269/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (5 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received correspondence from a person (details supplied); if he has considered actions to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17699/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospice Services (5 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 717. To ask the Minister for Health when the €3 million of funding for the development of hospices in Drogheda, County Cavan and the midlands for palliative and end of life care will be allocated. [17696/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (5 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 718. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been additional funding provided for the appointment of an additional two epilepsy nurse specialists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17697/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 719. To ask the Minister for Health if he has had correspondence with an organisation (details supplied) on its proposal for the increase of physiotherapy services; if he plans to act on the proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17700/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Amnesty International's Report on Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians: Ireland Israel Alliance (5 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I welcome the fact that the Ireland-Israel Alliance has come before us to give testimony. It has contended that it believes this report is wrong in stating that Israel is an apartheid state. I will direct my questions to Ms Goodall. She obviously accepts that Israel has been occupying Palestinian lands for approximately 55 years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Amnesty International's Report on Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians: Ireland Israel Alliance (5 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is the ground that has been taken since 1967. There is no sign of this occupation being lifted. We have also had what people have termed relentless land confiscation. Approximately 700,000 people in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are Israeli settlers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Amnesty International's Report on Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians: Ireland Israel Alliance (5 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: These are Jewish-only settlements. There is a dual legal system within them. People have been thrown off these lands. There is an absolute separation and gap regarding the living conditions of these Israeli settlers and those Palestinian people. There is an absolute separation in respect of political rights, home demolitions and collective punishment. If all this is accepted, it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Amnesty International's Report on Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians: Ireland Israel Alliance (5 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There has obviously been a considerable amount of conversation with regard to Israel and its security. My argument or contention is that security can only be delivered if people can share a land and they will only get that when they have a deal with those with whom they share that land. The fact is people do not necessarily pick the leadership they deal with. Yes, there are huge issues...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Amnesty International's Report on Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians: Ireland Israel Alliance (5 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I have never been brief in my life.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Amnesty International's Report on Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians: Ireland Israel Alliance (5 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I had intended to ask Mr. Shatter if he would deal with the settlement issue. He has given his answer and I am not exactly buying it. The issue is greater. I agree with him in the sense that engagement obviously works but we are only going to get to that level of engagement when we can take the sting out of the situation and when there is a proper settlement. The other issue I was going...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are all in agreement that there needs to be a move away from our linear economy. Functional obsolescence is a feature of some goods. While previously computer hard drives and other parts would have been replaced, this no longer happens. When it comes to laptops, I do not know what type of skill set a person would need to be able to open one up. Mobile phone batteries become obsolete...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (31 Mar 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 39. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the status of the home care pilot project in CHO 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16684/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Citizens' Assembly (31 Mar 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 77. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the citizens'’ assembly on drugs to convene. [16683/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 134. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports available for the Irish fishing fleet given the rising cost of fuel pressures on the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16685/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (31 Mar 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 189. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expected timeframe in which the €500 million European Crisis Reserve Fund will be made available to support farming families across the pig, beef, seed potato and horticultural sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16686/22]