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Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes. Has the Children's Rights Alliance dealt with that idea of specialist help? What was the interaction like in that regard?

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is the problem. Even if everything is put in, the pay-off will not be for ten or 15 years. It is sometimes about what does not happen.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The importance and impact of housing and homelessness was referenced. We all get the idea of more resources being given to people. The fewer resources, the worse the decisions we make and the worse the decisions we can make. I assume it would be worthwhile to look at taking those in and-----

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We could make an executive decision here.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is about actually making it happen. It is all well and good to have really good discussions. The witnesses have plainly put the idea of a specialist health nurse. I am not wrong in saying that a specialist nurse would be a triggering mechanism for a full intervention. We have not seen that go anywhere next or near to a proposal yet. The Children's Rights Alliance obviously does have a...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: A trigger.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Regional Development (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement there has been with his Department, State agencies and Department counterparts in the North, on the issues impacting cross border employment and enterprise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32380/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Sector Pensions (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to detail the interaction there has been between his Department’s secretary-general and the counterpart in the Department of Defence regarding a person (details supplied) who was denied the transfer of a Defence Forces’ pension that was given to his late wife following the death of their son while on UN duty...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to improve access to the workforce for people with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32382/25]

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We were nearly there.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Regarding the amendments, what we have said and why we have tabled them is straightforward. I accept what the Minister of State said regarding amendment No. 206. The big thing is reiterating the point about codes of practice and guidelines and making sure that we have internal communications where they need to be. It is always frightening to hear the figures that Deputy Clarke spoke about....

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I want to speak to amendment No. 206. It is straightforward. We probably spent an awful lot of time the last day going over and back. There is probably an element, at times, when dealing with the reality out there, that sometimes what is lacking is a code of practice. It would ensure communication. It is an absolute necessity to make sure that this is happening within the service. It...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We saw the rent pressure zones as limited and imperfect, but the idea was that it was better to have some element of defence rather than none whatsoever. We have seen that they are incapable of holding back the tide of rent increases. While we might not oppose this legislation, we are utterly opposed to what is being proposed by the Government. We have all spoken about the issues in the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I have been contacted by Saint John of God Community Services regarding its approved housing body. It states that it has been privately renting a house in Meath since 2022. Four residents lived in the house, supported by staff. The owner of the property is selling the house and the Saint John of God Housing Association was in the process of purchasing the house and intended to use CAS...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The witnesses are all very welcome. I will jump straight into children's specialist disability services. I accept what Mr. Gloster said in the sense that what people want to see and want to have are therapies and supports for their children. There is a particular issue. We had Cara and Mark Darmody here, and their fear is that we have not sweated the private sector sufficiently. They...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is a fair bit actually.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The big question I have is about the conversation the witnesses are having and this Cabinet sub-committee is having with regard to the best means of delivering assessments and then delivering therapies. I have always been a big believer in school therapies, but the witnesses are here answering to a degree with regard to what the CDNTs in particular are meant to offer.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: So, that is being done at the minute.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Would that change the nature of what the assessment of need is?

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: On the pay and numbers strategy, I just want to ensure we are filling all positions and that there are no suppressed positions. I will throw these other things out as well. Obviously, talking about adult services, the HSE relies on the likes of St. John of God. There seems to be an issue at the minute with regard to the capital assistance scheme, CAS, funding with which it would have been...