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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (8 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 39. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to put in place measures to ensure childcare providers servicing disadvantaged areas will not be forced into closure when transitioning from the community childcare subvention plus scheme to the national childcare scheme. [22373/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (8 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I think the Minister is aware of the issues I wish to deal with in this question. They relate to a number of childcare providers operating in Dundalk and Drogheda, namely, in Cox's Demesne, Muirhevnamor, Toberona and Moneymore. I know there is a short-term saver status - I am sorry if I have used the wrong terminology - but I do not think the referral solution the Minister was talking to me...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (8 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I appreciate that. First and foremost, the saver status has meant that these services have managed to continue with the quotient of service users already using the service. The problem is that this set of kids, if they were to apply now, probably would not meet the criteria. While there was a workaround for the services, whether it was Tusla, Louth County Council or a number of other...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (8 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 56. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to put in place supports to assist young persons in terms of their extracurricular development, namely youth centre supports. [22372/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (8 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 652. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Covid-19 unemployment benefit for the self-employed will be requalified as a subsidy for the self-employed; and if it will be adjusted to the employee subsidy rate with retroactive effect since the beginning of the pandemic in order to comply with Article 40.1 of the Constitution which upheld that all citizens shall,...

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (2 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Táim breá sásta tacaíocht a thabhairt done Bhille seo We welcome the necessity and reason for this Bill, including the additional powers that will be necessary for An Garda Síochána in what I imagine will be a very small number of situations. Before I speak to the Bill and the provision of additional Garda powers, I would like to commend the Garda, a number...

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Jul 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: During this whole period we are talking about the July stimulus. As a number of Deputies said yesterday, this stimulus is bring introduced at the same time as the initial pandemic unemployment payments are being cut, when we were implementing regressive measures in the economy and reducing the free flow of money in the economy. We need to take all that into account. We welcome some of the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jul 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: My thoughts are with the family in Dundalk who are burying a man today. He was a husband, father and brother who was hugely involved in the community. On Sunday, we heard the sad news of his suicide. This is not the first time I have dealt with this issue. I spoke with the family and they said that the difficult part was that this man presented himself to the mental services in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jul 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 1421. To ask the Minister for Health the procedures in place for workplaces having to close following an outbreak of Covid-19. [20840/20]

Perjury and Related Offences Bill [Seanad] 2018: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Jul 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will follow up on the comments of my colleague, Deputy Martin Kenny. I welcome the motion. I thank the Regional Group. This legislation is one of the pieces of the jigsaw that we need to deal with the whole insurance fiasco we have in this State. I accept what others have said. If somebody goes before a court and perjures himself or herself, whether in respect of a false claim or...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jul 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: An awful lot has been said. We welcome some parts of these proposals. Obviously, we need to get as much stimulus as possible into the economy, which has been absolutely hammered. As has already been said by many previous speakers, it is very difficult to look at a stimulus programme while dealing with reduced pandemic unemployment payments. The pandemic unemployment payment and the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Offices (29 Jul 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the timeframe for the establishment of the shared island unit; and the status of the process to date. [17264/20]

Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The PUP was a necessary blunt instrument at the beginning of this crisis. We hoped that a number of the problems with it would have been rectified but this has not happened. Some of my colleagues have spoken about the weaknesses in the payment such as those relating to those of pension age. There are difficulties now that the rate has been cut. There are problems for particular sole...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: UN Security Council (28 Jul 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I welcome what the Minister says. I accept the logic of looking to particular issues where we have capacity and credibility. As such it is vital that we choose where we can make an impact and a positive one. I welcome the conversations the Minister has had already. I know he cannot go into specifics but what positives, if any, has he taken from his dealings with either the Israeli...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (28 Jul 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I welcome what the Minister says. My only difficulty with all of this is the fact that the Israeli Government does not particularly care what anybody else thinks unless pressure is put on it, and the EU is willing to put on the required pressure, similar to what was done regarding Russia and Crimea. I welcome the fact that he has requested a list of actions by the EU. These need to happen...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: UN Security Council (28 Jul 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This question is to ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland's membership of the UN Security Council will be used to defend, advocate and give voice to those persons who are voiceless and dispossessed around the world. To some degree, this is a follow-up to the previous question. We are very disappointed that the programme for Government did not include such positive...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: UN Security Council (28 Jul 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I may have allowed my own disappointment with the fact that the programme for Government does not endorse the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 to cloud what I said. I accept that we have a positive role to play. On the role we play, I would like to ensure we are going to be there to represent and advocate on behalf of people who have been dispossessed. Based on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (28 Jul 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am taking this question on behalf of Deputy Brady. What steps will the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade take if the threatened Israeli annexation of part of the West Bank takes place? It could be argued that, in reality, certain parts of these lands are already occupied. That is the reality and that is what the dispossessed people of Palestine have been dealing with. They have...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (28 Jul 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Even prior to formal annexation, the settlements, which the Israeli Government has promised to maintain at all costs, obviously constitute a de facto annexation. History has shown that Israel has taken different approaches at different times. Will the Minister give us any answers he has received to the questions he has posed to the Israeli ambassador and the Israeli Administration? The...

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What I am about to say has all been said. It is straightforward. The Bill will fail to do what our Bill would have done, that is, to protect families, as my party colleague, Deputy Ward, stated. We needed an extension of the legislation as it existed. We needed to ensure there was a moratorium on all rent increases and that there would be no evictions, but we do not have that. 12...