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Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will do.

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am just waiting on a mic.

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is a dreadful thing to say, Ceann Comhairle.

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Obviously, there is going to be much agreement. The complaint we have is that this an issue that should have been addressed a long time ago. In fairness, I will add my voice to what has been said about Johnny O'Meara and the huge work he did. Obviously, his Supreme Court case and action has brought us to this point. I make the argument that we need to find other ways rather than...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (27 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Several groups of got funding under the community recognition fund, which is absolutely sound, but there is an issue in that two applications made by Louth County Council were refused. When I compare them with others, I am not entirely sure why they were refused. I ask that the Minister examine them. They relate to St. Patrick’s Day and Christmas. The council is involved in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (27 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 20. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made with the Colleges of the Future initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13985/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (27 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 30. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the progress of the review of personal assistance services funded from the fund for students with disabilities across tertiary education settings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13984/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (27 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 112. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will outline the applications process, assessment criteria and total funding allocated to date this year under the current community recognition fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13986/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (27 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 117. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will outline the future funding plans for the community recognition fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13987/25]

Statute Law Revision Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is an interesting piece of legislation. We are repealing the spent and obsolete secondary instruments enacted on or after 1 January 1821 and before 1 January 1861, as well as those instruments enacted before 1821 that have not been previously repealed. I suspect that many Deputies did not anticipate they would be speaking on this issue but, in fairness, it is not only a decent piece...

Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: On CETA, a number of us across all parties have an issue in respect of the investment court system. We have seen in other countries that there has been a chilling effect in those sort of scenarios where a Legislature can leave itself open to actions by major industries if it were to change the laws to its own benefit. There is a bit more complexity to the issue around CETA. I am not sure...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I want to raise the shocking case of 13-year-old Senan Maguire from my constituency, who is autistic. His case was covered by the Sunday Independent, which referenced the absolute failure of the State to provide services for Senan, his mother and father, Tina and David, and the wider family. I could talk about major issues regarding community disability network teams, CDNTs. The child is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (26 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the background and rationale for advising a home economics teacher currently working in a secondary school in Louth (details supplied), and who previously worked as a teacher in the same subject in the North of Ireland for 19 years, as to why she must complete skills training and assessment in order to get fully registered with the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (25 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the engagements he had with the National Emergency Coordination Group in the days before, during and after Storm Éowyn. [13484/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (25 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if and when Dundalk will be included in the Dublin commuter zone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13666/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 666. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on the review of their mother and baby institutions payment scheme application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13995/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (25 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 776. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated for personal assistant service and home support hours for CHO5; the means by which hours are allocated, cases are assessed, and appeals made; how needs of the individual are assessed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13777/25]

International Security and International Trade: Statements (20 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Unfortunately we are in a very scary world where might is right. It can seem like reading the history of imperial power plays from the 1700s. There is slaughter in Sudan and Gaza and Russian attempts to make major military inroads to deliver a one-sided peace. There has been engagement by the US Administration which can at very best be described as unhelpful, although I have many other...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug Dealing (20 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We have to be absolutely straight in the sense that Ireland at the minute is absolutely awash with cocaine and when we are dealing with addicts who would previously have had an issue with heroin. We are probably talking about crack cocaine and that obviously leads to a particular set of issues particularly as regards crime and the impact on the wider community. I agree with Deputy Smith....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Charges (20 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are dealing with major infrastructural issues with regard to Uisce Éireann. There are housing developments in respect of which there are plans to put in initial water treatments schemes on the basis that there is not capacity in the rest of the system. In the part of Dundalk I live in, we have an issue in removing wastewater. We have had near flooding incidents on multiple...