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Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We welcome this necessary legislation. There will be a need to strengthen some of the weaknesses on Committee Stage, and I hope there will be some element of cross-party co-operation in that regard. In fairness to him, Deputy Ó Cathasaigh spoke about changing workforces and the changing nature of how things are. There is an awful lot of hope in this but we also have a large number...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Unfortunately we have had continued drift. We do not have the DUP making the determination to join the rest of us to form an Executive. What engagement has the Taoiseach had and where does he see it at this time? Obviously he is dealing with a British Government that has had plenty of change in the past while. I add my voice to those of everyone else with regard to the legacy Bill....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Trade Missions (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Before I deal with this question, I accept and welcome the fact we had no part to play in this particular statement but I think there should be some element of a complaint about the language used regarding human shields. I have a real problem that that provides cover to this Israeli regime and the actions it is carrying out, particularly in attacking hospitals. When we talk about Germany...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Trade Missions (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: -----guilt, I do not think it is okay for the Palestinian people to pay for the crimes that were carried out everywhere from Babi Yar to Sobibor, Dachau, Treblinka and Auschwitz. I do not think that is okay. Beyond that, the Germans did not exactly rush-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Trade Missions (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: -----after Yom Kippur to help the Israelis or when NASA was engaging rocket scientists. In fairness to Deputy Haughey, he spoke about the Taoiseach's visit to the demilitarised zone. We have had a complete realignment of politics. We have seen what has happened across the world. We have to take into account the heightened relationship between Russia and North Korea and how this will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I want to draw the Taoiseach's attention to the statement by Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, on humanitarian pauses in Gaza. There is a particular line which reads: "The EU condemns the use of hospitals and civilians as human shields by Hamas." I want to know what involvement or engagement there was on this statement with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Future Treaty Change in the European Union: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Well, I do not know, there is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Future Treaty Change in the European Union: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Was he any good?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Future Treaty Change in the European Union: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I thank Dr. Colfer, Professor Barrett, and Mr. Marshall - and no offence I am fairly sure he has some sort of letters before or after his name. I sat on the Conference on the Future of Europe and at times it was incredibly interesting and at other times it probably went down a number of culs-de-sac. There was probably an element of over-focus on Hungary and a simplistic notion that if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Future Treaty Change in the European Union: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: No, no, no.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Future Treaty Change in the European Union: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: My general questions are on some level a reiteration of what a number of others have said. There will not be agreement on certain things and there will be issues on treaty change. The Conference on the Future of Europe I would say at times was simplistic as it was for citizens. I would also say it was the middle class on tour and I include myself in that. I have particular issues in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Future Treaty Change in the European Union: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is it. They are dealing with the issues of drug crime and organised crime and its impacts such as drug debt intimidation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Future Treaty Change in the European Union: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am finishing now. My point is that was literally brought up by myself and nobody else. To a degree, that meant there was not a huge level of representation in any way from people who are from communities that are dealing with this. I do not think this is just happening in Dundalk and Ballymun and wherever else I imagine it happens right across Europe. That is just a small point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Future Treaty Change in the European Union: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The professor can have it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Future Treaty Change in the European Union: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I never thought it was a conversation we would ever be having.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Future Treaty Change in the European Union: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It definitely will not be as long a moment as previously. Some of it relates to the rule-of-law issue, whether we are dealing with Hungary or a possible particular regime in France or anywhere else. Fiscal levers have been introduced. That is probably the ground there needs to be in maintaining what is an acceptable rule of law, while I understand we have to get some element of agreement...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Minister was in the Cooley Peninsula and Carlingford recently. She saw some of the devastation there. We welcome the supports in the form of the humanitarian assistance fund and the emergency business flooding relief scheme. I hope there will be plenty of flexibility because sometimes we have more questions with every person we see. Antóin Watters and I were at a meeting...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am delighted to hear it.

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: A week ago, António Guterres stated: Gaza is ... a graveyard for children. The nightmare in Gaza is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a crisis of humanity. I think it is fair to say that the situation has drastically disimproved. I assume there is agreement across Government parties with the ministerial statement from earlier today that the Israeli onslaught on Gaza was a...