Results 4,561-4,580 of 6,541 for speaker:Ruairí Ó Murchú

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am not referring to an alternative.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In fairness, the committee has spoken about engaging with the mobile phone and broadband task force. We want it to consider this work and the idea of getting the State to do it, probably resulting in better engagement between constituents and Deputies on broadband provision. This is an alternative to our submitting requests to telecommunications companies on the basis of what they cannot...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I get it. In the medium term, we need to put in place those technological solutions. I was going to refer to clicking tickets.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is all fine. In the medium term, we need to find the technological solutions. I am not trying to be funny here. Is it not possible in the short term to go back to something that is almost prehistoric, such as the practice of clicking tickets? Is there not a viable short-term solution?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We have no notion about a timeline; that is the problem.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept that. There is an onus on the Minister to engage with those concerned. It is probably work that we have to facilitate.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We did the all-Ireland rail review. The Minister will not die of shock if I speak about electrification, particularly in respect of the Enterprise line. We are still talking about 2027 as the date for delivery on that. I am working on the basis, whatever the outworkings of this review, that the resources will be in place to deliver it, with all the caveats surrounding planning, etc.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Anybody who has ever looked at that map will see there is no rail in the north west.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I completely agree. We will have a level of engagement regarding it. It is interesting what the Minister said about local authorities, EV infrastructure and the fact that there has probably not been a sufficient amount of work done. That is something we probably need to butt into, for want of a better term.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In fairness, somebody came to me from the other perspective. He is a mechanic and a car salesperson who was clear in saying to me that he has an agenda in that he wants to sell more cars. I know he had approached the local authority. I assume a greater number of those conversations need to happen, but they have to go beyond that and towards putting operational projects in place wherever we...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Where is the process and the piece of work that the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, was drawing together?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It was the review of the post office-----

Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I do not doubt that the Minister has determined to look into a system to deal with these complaints and the long-term issues that have been highlighted by the Women of Honour, but the fact remains that we in this State have a long history of failing those who have suffered abuse, of not learning from the past and of not putting in place systems that work. The criterion that matters in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to bring a proposal to Cabinet in regard to reducing third-level fees as part of a sustainable funding model for higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6535/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the under-investment in apprenticeships; and the way that his Department will manage the current waiting lists for apprentices waiting for assignment to off-the-job training. [6484/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will publish the economic evaluation of the Cassell’s report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6536/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (8 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to support colleges to deliver online options for students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6485/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (8 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he plans to bring forward a new student accommodation strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6532/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (8 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason no progress reports on the implementation of the Student Accommodation Strategy have been produced since Q3 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6533/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (8 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the local authority housing assessment process. [6642/22]