Results 101-120 of 7,498 for speaker:Ruairí Ó Murchú

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Regulation (25 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 69. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of collective notices of redundancy received by the Department from January 2024 to August 2025 from American companies or subsidiaries of US companies operating in the State, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50112/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (25 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline any plans there are for work activation and disability access to work, including any improvements or streamlining planned for schemes such as the reasonable accommodation scheme and the wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50111/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 170. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number and types of oral hearings completed by the Appeals Office to date in 2025, in tabular form; to outline whether there are plans to increase the number of oral hearings carried out by the Appeals Office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50110/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rights of People with Disabilities (25 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 304. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the means by which, under the National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People, the cost of disability, and an increase in the employment rate among people with disabilities, will be achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50847/25]

Use of Vapes and Nicotine Products by Young People and Adolescents: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is another of these circumstances where we are going to have agreement there are absolute dangers with vapes. You do not ever have to go very far to find them. At times I probably do not even have to leave my own house, and that is the thing. We have seen the prevalence of vape use among young people, as well as other nicotine-related products such as nicotine pouches. We have also...

Auto-Enrolment: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes, but I think there were more people on the list to speak.

Auto-Enrolment: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Deputies O'Reilly and Bennett have laid out our particular issues with auto-enrolment. We would all like to be here in support of an idea my party has always been in support of, but the system the Government is talking about is not that. I do not know how many debates there have been since the resumption about the fact people out there are absolutely suffering in a cost-of-living crisis,...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe go léir. Mr. O'Neill spoke about a general level of supports. He is obviously operating in an area of high deprivation. We know the particular issues that can be caused where poverty meets drugs and multigenerational trauma. There are particular periods and times. We have all seen the child protection issues in recent times whether we are...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I should say that Turlough does not have them at the moment.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I know every child is different. However, no different than a lot of the service Mr. Cronin is providing this is something that could, in a lot of cases, be dealt with in a school setting.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We could be talking about a psychologist, about dealing with parents, teachers or SNAs and then everyone gets best practice. That can be doubled up with assistive technology for reinforcement.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In the long run this is all cheaper.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Is it also what the IASLT and the other organisations say? No-one has had a proper conversation with them on the best means of doing everything from assessments through to therapies. They still keep operating on a system that we set up, and which is creaking.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I would like that noted on the record.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Is that in respect of physical violence?

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am big into brevity, me.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In fairness to Deputy Toole, she is not wrong in that regard. I would like to get more information - some has been given - about the sort of figures we are talking about on what money the witnesses are providing what service. We can put that up against the CDNTs and whatever else. It would probably fit on a single page. This is making an argument that is already won but we need to move on...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Can we get that information?

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It makes sense. It is a lot easier to do, and yet we continue. We talk about in-school therapies, but it is general talk.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 7. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the nature of refurbishment works that were carried out at Aiken Barracks, Dundalk in 2024 and to-date in 2025; if any of these capital works projects are still ongoing; when these works will be completed, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50730/25]