Results 41-60 of 7,631 for speaker:Ruairí Ó Murchú

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...

Education (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I do not doubt the Minister of State's sincerity. We have dealt with many issues many times and, in fairness, he has always made his best attempt to deal with those issues. On some level, we are dealing with a system that is far from perfect at this point. I will make a defence of this legislation. I thank Deputy Cummins for speaking on it and I reiterate what she said. A two-year run-in...

Education (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Where do I start?

Education (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I could not say I was shocked but I was not particularly happy, obviously, when I saw the Government's response to this. This is not the first time the Minister of State and I have had a conversation, never mind the legislation, on the issues regarding those seeking places for their children, and the rights of those children, whether in primary or secondary school. I would state quite...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Support Services (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That the programme for Government "commits to further review the minimum hours requirement under the wage subsidy scheme" is an absolute necessity. It goes without saying that we need "to examine an increase to the payment rate". One of the fears is with the three-year review mechanism. There will be other factors that will impact the costs faced by the Rehab Group and some of these other...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Support Services (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Sinn Féin introduced Private Members’ business this week in relation to the lack of a cost-of-disability payment. There were many organisations in Leinster House on the day, including Rehab, the Irish Wheelchair Association and the Disability Federation of Ireland and a number of its constituent organisations. There is a point that needs to be repeated. Everyone accepts what...

National Training Fund (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is not the first time the Minister and I have had an interaction on this matter this week. It is all the better for doing it in Ireland as opposed to over in Surrey, at-----

National Training Fund (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes. We are always here.

National Training Fund (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is it, and at some point there will be no need, when all the issues are dealt with. I await that day.

National Training Fund (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Utopia. I am going to agree with Deputies McGettigan and Conway-Walsh - I do not think there will be any shock about that - and we reserve the right to make a determination around this. That answer will be determined by what the Minister intends to use the unlocked moneys for. If there is any detail that could be provided on that in the follow-up statements, it would be an absolute...

National Training Fund (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is it, and I would like to see the Minister have conversations with those within his party and his Government from a point of view of making sure those necessary pieces of work are done to make things better now and to prepare for that because there has been a lack of work done there.

National Training Fund (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I think I will finish up now. I would not like to go over time anyway, Chair.

National Training Fund (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: No. There is still time on the clock.

National Training Fund (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I thank everyone for their flexibility. I ask the Minister to come back with the answers to those issues and I ask that we would get the answers in relation to the National Training Fund so we could make a determination. We all want to support, work and deliver.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Irish Language (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 90. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding available for primary school children to attend the Gaeltacht; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55893/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Irish Language (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Tá muid ag caint faoi chúrsaí Gaeltachta. Bhí fadhb ann roimhe seo idir an Roinn oideachais agus Roinn na Gaeltachta. Bhí imní ar na príomhoidí, na múinteoirí agus na páistí nach mbeadh siad in ann freastal ar chúrsaí sna Gaeltachtaí. Déantar é seo le blianta anuas i gColáiste Bhríde i Rann na...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Irish Language (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Níl fadhb agam leis sin.