Results 501-520 of 7,498 for speaker:Ruairí Ó Murchú

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure Programme (29 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 3407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for capital investment in further and higher education facilities in Louth over the next number of years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43464/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (29 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 3408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made in colleges of the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43465/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (29 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 3409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans for a colleges of the future in county Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43466/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (29 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 3410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for new apprenticeships and the timeframe to have them up and running; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43467/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (29 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 3411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for new apprenticeships to be offered in county Louth and the timeframe to have them up and running; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43468/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (29 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 3412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to streamline apprenticeship access and training; whether there has been engagement with ETBs and the further higher education sector on these streamlining plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43469/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (29 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 3413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the funding issues for SOLAS and ETB’s; the position regarding any delays in apprenticeships or cuts to courses or staff across all aspects of the ETB education system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43470/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (29 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 3414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on plans to deal with issues being faced by adult educators across the ETB sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43471/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Community Development Projects (29 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 3475. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on future plans for the community recognition fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43510/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Community Development Projects (29 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 3476. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline the funding streams that will be available for community gardens or allotment projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43511/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Social Enterprise Sector (29 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 3477. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline the funding streams that will be available for social enterprise projects in Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43512/25]

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Tá muid sásta déileáil leis seo inniu. Without a doubt, we are all very happy to be dealing with this legislation. On some level, I agree with whoever said earlier that we need this to happen as quickly as possible. It should have happened earlier. We all know why the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up. We have all seen what it has done at State level and locally....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (17 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 11. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress being made on plans for additional funding to Uisce Éireann to progress large-scale infrastructure projects following the review of the national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40118/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (17 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We all know the issues that are impacted by Uisce Éireann. It says that delivering infrastructure can take more money. In my own constituency, even in the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, report, we have question marks in relation to everything from Cabinhill to Greenmount and Tallanstown. We need to see movement on all of this.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (17 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I suppose we need to see that review as soon as possible. Has the Minister any information in relation to what he reckons that timeline will be for the sectoral allocations? Some of what I am talking about, particularly in the case of Dundalk, falls into the bracket of projects that have been timelined. The three projects I mentioned - Cabinhill, Tallanstown and Greenmount - have had...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (17 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I hope the interaction that we have is in relation to delivery. Some of the projects I spoke about earlier have been timelined. It is a matter of ensuring that those timelines are at least met. They are timelines that have been set further back than we would have anticipated or wanted. There are particular issues. I welcome the Minister's statement that there is need for a greater...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (17 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is a matter of delivering in all this. We are not where we need to be and we need to get there.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (17 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Flexibility is always welcome in a Chair.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It can depend on the school or the staff.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: They have to apply for the scheme. I know this is all being looked at. How do we get the legislation that puts the pressure on with regard to that? What does that look like? On the basis of what Dr. Begley is saying, the general scheme does not deal with that.