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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy, trade and competitiveness will next meet. [22205/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (27 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 1. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent engagement with the US President. [22204/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (27 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Go raibh maith agat, a Thaoisigh. I imagine we have a very strained relationship at this point with the American Administration, and the European Union in particular does. While everyone welcomes the fact that the 50% tariff imposition is being put back until 9 July, supposedly after a really nice phone call - it must have been one hell of a phone call - what level of engagement has there...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (27 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the details of the interest rate increases/decreases on all variable and fixed rates on the Rebuilding Ireland home loans in each local authority from January 2022 to April 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27536/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I appreciate the answer from the Minister. We all did considerable lobbying on the hourly rate and welcome its increase, which was not before time. The only way this can become sustainable to allow these people to offer the absolutely necessary services to those with disabilities is by putting a proper 52-week contract in place. Work needs to be done by the Department along with other...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 19. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the work being carried out to examine how best a person-centred support model for learners with disabilities can be developed across further and higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25306/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What work is being carried out to examine how best a person-centred support model for learners with disabilities can be developed across further and higher education? I do not think the Minister will be particularly shocked at me asking this question. An element of this question relates to personal assistants, a topic I have spoken about many times. I refer particularly to personal...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Obviously, we all welcome the likes of PATH 4 funding. I suppose this is the whole idea in relation to course creation. From a capital perspective, too, there is the idea of making those reasonable accommodations that facilitate more people to be able to access further and higher education. Much work needs to be done. I visited several times the likes of some of the courses being funded....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the plans to enhance disability supports for students at further and higher education centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25307/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (22 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 97. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will provide an update on the provision of the second round of funding for the Community Recognition Fund for County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25309/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (22 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 116. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will provide an update on the work of the Stakeholder Group on Dog Control; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25308/25]

Biodiversity Week: Statements (21 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Tá a fhios agam go bhfuil an-suim ag an Aire Stáit san ábhar seo. Everyone has recognised it is an issue the Minister of State has great interest in. There is a need for him to have a great interest in it because we are not exactly where we need to be. In 2019 a biodiversity emergency was declared in this State and across this island, so it is an absolute necessity that we...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Ádh mór ort agus comhghairdeachas. It goes without saying, we are in a world that is very much changing. We do not know exactly how things are going to work out regarding geopolitics. We obviously have a huge number of issues to deal with that have a huge impact here and internationally. I like to think we will be able to deal with a considerable number of issues and we can do...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (21 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 31. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the report that has been received by his Department that was produced the sub-group convened to progress NDIS proposals for needs-based, grant-aided, modern vehicle adaptation supports to replace the DDS; and when it will be published. [26250/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (20 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I recently had a meeting with IFA officials, as I stated previously. A line I used before is that the organisation is very good at keeping the Minister’s feet to the fire in relation to issues. The officials had recently been at a meeting in Brussels and obviously spoke about their fear of cuts to CAP under Pillar 2. They spoke about the whole conversation as regards ReArm Europe,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Promotion (20 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is another supplementary question.

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Many people have said that it is particularly sad that Cara Darmody has to carry out a 50-hour sit-out outside Leinster House. Many of us have met her over several years. This is not the first time she has been up here or the first time she has been out protesting alongside her father Mark, on behalf of her brothers John and Neil, who have been abjectly failed by the State, and on behalf of...

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Hear, hear.

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Hear, hear.

Assessment of Need: Statements (20 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are all here and having this discussion because 14-year-old Cara Darmody and her dad Mark are outside on a 50-hour sleepout. It is nothing short of scandalous. Obviously she is doing this on behalf of her brothers, Neil and John, and all the other Neils and Johns. The figures were spoken about earlier. At this point, we are talking about 15,296 children who have been failed. That...