Results 141-160 of 6,781 for speaker:Ruairí Ó Murchú

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I know but I meant this evening.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In fairness, a considerable number of people were worried. As the Minister of State said, they were sufficiently worried to come to her on that basis. It was said to me that we could be looking at a case where someone was involuntarily admitted and then they could not get treatment. I still have a fear when we are talking about making applications to courts and to the High Court. We all...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This amendment is an attempt to ensure we have a holistic means of assessment. We are talking about everything that impacts on mental health issues, including the environmental, the physical and the social. It is about the idea of ensuring we are assessing everything to make sure that we are dealing with all the issues impacting on a person. As Deputy Clarke said, it is then all about...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Minister of State should be well used to me using flexibility. I decided that I needed to mention the fact we need to put a certain emphasis on community services. That was already mentioned by Deputy Clarke, so I apologise. I did digress. I get that we are dealing with the issue of involuntary admissions, but we were trying to flesh out how to ensure we are talking about something...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I do not think there will be disagreement about the Garda request for authorised officers. It is completely logical and makes sense. They will be best suited to delivering and will be utterly au fait with what is involved, which is not always the case. Some of the issues I spoke of earlier relate to the fact that not everyone is au fait with the law and with what is required. That is why...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is probably too early to ask the Minister of State about the timeline, given that we are having a preliminary discussion on the structure. Can she give a general indication? I accept that this all depends on funding. What will the structure look like in comparison with the current structure, the difficulties with which I have spoken about previously? I imagine that other medical...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am not wedded to the amendment but I am wedded to the idea that there is a problem. I assume the Minister of State accepts there is a problem. I am not sure that what is proposed in the Bill will deal with that problem. It is the small number of cases where somebody needs support and a mental health practitioner will not sign, as the practitioner is not allowed, and the Garda cannot get...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept a considerable amount of what the Minister of State said. There is a significant issue in terms of getting a certain cohort committed in the first place. What will be the solution? Others and I have been dealing with people who need care and, because they were not making a direct threat to themselves or others, even following an arrest by gardaí who thought they needed to be...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Garda.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I take on board what the Minister of State has said. We will put the amendment so we can amend our amendment. The big piece I want out of this is the code of practice, which would be provided to all the necessary stakeholders. Beyond that, I ask the Minister of State to look at the problem I am talking about and having something in the legislation. It could be just the need. That is...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are talking about a very small number of people. An involuntary admission should be the last thing we look for, but there are cases where it is absolutely necessary. I will not get into the details of another case I recall, but we were dealing with somebody who had become a danger to himself and others. He had been well beyond a nuisance for a considerable time and had caused a huge...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Many of the circumstances we are discussing we encounter in our work as TDs. I have gone to the Minister of State previously to discuss such circumstances, in which families, the Garda and others who become involved have looked for someone to be involuntarily admitted, generally on the basis that the person has some form of psychosis. Unfortunately, sometimes when GPs are called out, even...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I imagine everybody in here to speak on this has dealt with those who have not been able to avail of mental health supports on the basis of addiction to alcohol or drugs, or both. We are talking about incredibly complex cases. I would welcome the tenor of what the Minister of State is saying, but we are dealing with too many cases where there has been an inability to provide people with the...

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is hard to believe that we are having this debate. There is absolute acceptance that Israel is an apartheid state that is engaged in genocidal action in Gaza. Another 25 people were killed at a so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid station. I do not know what defence there can be for what Israel is doing on a day-by-day basis. At least 55,000 people have been slaughtered and there...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I welcome what the Minister of State said at the end. I will provide the information explicitly because it is absolutely necessary. While all this is commendable with regard to cancer care, it does not deal with the issue at hand, which is this child who was diagnosed with hyperinsulinism, and the fact that we have the machine here to carry out this PET-CT scan. There is an issue with...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is also the issue with regard to the payment. Our own health service, the HSE, should have played a better role in ensuring those bits could be dealt with.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I appreciate the flexibility the Chair has offered me, but I will need an answer. We need a solution with regard to this. I do not think this is good enough for this family or any other family that finds themselves in these circumstances. The only good news is that the child was seen and dealt with and is thriving at the moment.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: And deliver the service.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Before I turn to my main issue, but on the basis that this is health-related, I commend the staff in Our Lady of Lourdes hospital where I had to undergo a testing procedure. All is very well but I must say the staff there were incredibly professional and made something that should not be enjoyable in any way as enjoyable as it could be and definitely as painless as it could be. I just want...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I welcome everyone. On some level, it is always unfortunate that we have to address the issues that are being addressed. The one time everyone might agree with me is in commending Ms Darmody on the huge work and service she has done to her brothers and all the other Neils and Johns who are out there, of which there are a huge number. Ms Darmody said it herself: what we are looking at is...