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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (9 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: On the national service plan, I will break this down to two particular questions. One of them will relate to one of the issues the Minister dealt with on the radio earlier. I am talking about people, particularly families, who are under severe pressure. If Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital wants to discharge somebody, sometimes the staff are put under severe pressure to discharge into a nursing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (9 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: No. 14 is about the RCSI Hospitals Group.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (9 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 69. To ask the Minister for Health the level of additional core expenditure for new developments, excluding funding for carryover and otherwise maintaining existing levels of service, which has been allocated to eating disorder residential and community support services in the State for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48975/23]

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Will we have questions and answers before the Minister of State sums up?

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am in agreement with an awful lot of what has been said. I think all Members accept that war crimes are happening and that is what Israel is doing. This is an especially right-wing Israeli Government, which has attacked its own judiciary. I consider Benjamin Netanyahu a charlatan surrounded by supremacists. Horrific acts were carried out by Hamas but we do not know where the Israeli...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The nightmare for the Palestinian people continues. We know what Gaza is. It is an open prison and has been for many years. We know what the Palestinian people have been dealing with in Gaza. We also know what they have been dealing with lately. We know that no hope is being provided to these people. We know at this point in time there is nowhere to run. We are talking about 2.3...

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (8 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Taoiseach has said himself that what we are seeing in Gaza from Israel is more revenge than it is any element of defence. We have seen an absolute abject failure from a security point of view from Israel in what they dreadfully term "mowing the grass". There has been much in the public domain in the sense of Benjamin Netanyahu at times having seen Hamas as an asset in dealing with a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We have to review how we deal with wastewater. I spoke earlier about Dundalk and the fact that in most of the town, we have combined wastewater systems that deal with both storm water and sewage. We have infrastructure and a pumping station system that simply do not have the capacity to deal with current rainfall and flooding. We do not have the capacity to deal with the houses and...

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I want to deal with particular issues in north Louth. People are going without home care in the harder-to-reach areas of north County Louth. We need to deal with the issues of pay and expenses. We cannot look at home care in isolation. It is part of the overall situation in respect of acute care. The hospital system does not work because home care packages take too long to put in place....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (8 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I raised this issue with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage rather than the Office of Public Works because I get that this is not the last time I will do so. What the Minister of State has told me is brilliant but we need a timeline for the drainage area plan. To speak specifically about Dundalk, at this point we cannot get rid of storm waters following regular...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (8 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We will do that. We need an assessment alongside the catchment flood risk assessment and management, CFRAM, and everything else.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (8 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The fact is that we had absolutely devastating rains in north County Louth and Dundalk. As bad as they were, they could have been worse, which was the fear of everybody. When I submitted this issue for debate, I was not sure what Ministry to include because I have questions for the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform on the OPW and flood defences...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I apologise that I was not able to be here earlier when the committee was dealing with this matter. A considerable amount has been said, and it was said previously. We all want to see a thriving film industry. Obviously, the budgetary proposal was that the €70 million cap on the section 481 credit would move to €125 million. That is a greater amount of money that the State...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are pressing it. What we are talking about is trying to introduce some element of equality and workers' rights across the board for those people who work in the industry. I welcome what the Minister said in the sense of supporting the stakeholders forum. We have to deal with issues that we have all talked about that have been raised by many people around blacklisting and other such...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (7 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Obviously, we need a workable solution across the board on accommodation. I have a technical question. What is the spec of these modular builds and what is the turnaround time in relation to them? Will these particular builds be suitable for long-term accommodation? Obviously, we have to address the huge amount of issues for those on waiting lists and whatever else in the general problem...

Extension of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (7 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Do not be giving the Minister of State ideas.

Extension of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (7 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: My colleague, Deputy Martin Kenny, concluded his remarks on a similar motion last year to renew these provisions with the following: "I hope this is the last time we are doing this and that full and proper measures will be in place before we have to return here in six months." While I can appreciate there are other priorities, it is good to have legal certainty when it comes to things...

Extension of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (7 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I wanted to put it on the record.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (7 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Will there be a scheme for farmers?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (7 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I wish to raise the recent flooding in north County Louth, including Dundalk. Carlingford on the Cooley peninsula was particularly devastated, with unprecedented rain. I would like to think there would be flexibility in the humanitarian assistance scheme and the emergency business flood relief scheme. A request has been made to provide a scheme for farmers whose lands have been damaged and...