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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is an idea that on some level Tusla might be better served, and forget the rights and wrongs and failings of Tusla at the minute, if there were two separate organisations as in a part that would be involved in interventions and whatever and then a second piece that deals with the disaster situation where somebody has to be taken into care. Sometimes there is then an issue where people...

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It was said to me that on some level it would make sense to separate out. Parents can have a fear and we do not want them to be worried about intervention or to fear that these people will eventually take their kids.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: On some level, it is more the branding idea and dealing with that issue. However, it is an issue. I go back to the question of what a whole-of-government response looks like in a perfect world.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is about emergency cases where we have failed to deal with them at an earlier stage. I accept we need many more foster carers. I have questions. I understand the resource issues and the position of Tusla, but the nuclear intervention is sometimes required.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is why early intervention and connection, and maintaining that, are important. They mean one catches those things and works with families, which leads to a scenario whereby children become involved in education and then employment and a proper life which breaks a cycle of dysfunction, poverty and all the rest. The public childcare model goes without saying and fits into the DEIS-plus...

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: From Healthy Ireland or whoever else.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Will the representatives come back to us on the proposal? Have they had any interaction with the Government on it? We keep talking about this unit being set up. I imagine, if people are dealing with child poverty-----

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...