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Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I understand that. It is just that it is a particular issue that I need an answer for. That is me done on that. In long term we have a monitoring issue. The people in the likes of Sheelagh, who are at the end of the line, are out of water at this point in time. We support the Bill. A greater piece of work needs to be done to ensure proportional representation. I think I have spoken...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I thank the Electoral Commission for the large body of work it needed to do. We support this legislation and the enactment of the constituency review report. Boundary reviews are looked at by politicians with particular interest. Moving from 160 Deputies to 174 would be a difficult sell to the public and would never sit too well on Twitter, but we have to work within the constitutional...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weather Events (14 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 385. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, following the recent flooding in north Louth, he will outline the compensation and funding schemes available to farmers for loss of dry stock, damage to machinery and sheds, etc.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49631/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weather Events (14 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 386. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what work will be carried out by his Department to assess the damage done to farm land as a result of recent flooding in north Louth; if the Department will be working with Louth County Council or other agencies and departments on this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49632/23]

Energy Charter Treaty: Statements (9 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This seems to be one of those circumstances where there is general agreement throughout the House. The Minister, towards the end of his contribution, spoke about how this ECT is not fit for purpose and indicated we need to leave it. Deputy Whitmore went through the ins and outs of it being fine that we try to do our best to do it in a collective way with some of our European partners, but...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I have spoken to the Minister a number of times this week about the devastation there has been in north County Louth with floods. Dundalk had a fair amount of flooding that could have been a lot more major. I would say to the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, that I will be having a conversation on the need for a drainage area plan that has been promised by Irish Water, and that needs to...

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I welcome that. We need to make sure that people in distress are relieved and that a system that works is created. However, we will have to address the underlying issue, particularly in north County Louth, that there just are not enough people working as home carers at the minute and people cannot get the hours they need to keep their loved ones in home settings. This would provide some...

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 14. 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 the RCSI Hospital Group for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48974/23]

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I ask the Minister to outline 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 the RCSI Hospital Group for 2024.

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.