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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (28 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is not the first time this week that I have spoken to the Minister of State about Carlinn Hall. We have a feasibility study by the SEAI into a shallow geothermal heat source solution for the communal district heating system. During the summer I received a reply to a parliamentary question that stated the report was drafted and there were recommendations for short-, medium- and...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I agree that there is a limited timeline. We are in a period of drift which we would hope would not happen. I assume it has to be absolutely clear to the British Government, and even beyond to unionism, that there can be no return to continued direct rule as happened during the 1990s which I believe some of the DUP Westminster team may hope or long for. That is not the way things are....

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 16. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on the engagements with the British Government and the parties in the North on the resumption of the Executive.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41330/23]

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept what the Tánaiste has said. We all know a mandate was given for Ms Michelle O'Neill MLA to be First Minister and one party is holding this up at this time. That party was obviously given succour and support over many years by a particular British Government that was playing its own game in relation to the outworkings of Brexit. We all thought, with the Windsor Framework, we...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Would the Tánaiste give a report on his engagements with the British Government and the parties in the North on the resumption of the Executive? We are obviously in a period of drift which we all would have feared. All of us would acknowledge the fact the DUP should just find a way to get along with the rest of us from the point of view of delivering government which people need....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (28 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 21. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his recent trips to Israel and Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41752/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (28 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the work of the Heat and Built Environment Delivery Taskforce will look at solving issues with existing district and communal heating systems such as Carlinn Hall in Dundalk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41754/23]

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (27 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We all understand this to be a technical Bill involving a transfer of all functions for the State's gas infrastructure from the current company, Ervia, to the new publicly owned company, Gas Networks Ireland. Deputy O'Rourke has laid out some of the issues that arise when we talk about the gas market or energy markets across the board. When people talk about that in this day and age, most...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (27 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I agree with the remarks of Deputy O'Sullivan. All Deputies have spoken about school transport and the difficulties in that regard. We are all aware of anomalies that show up. Last, year it affected Annagassan in my constituency. There is still an issue relating to the Bush Post Primary School, where people are technically a fraction too close to the school and do not have a right to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Just Transition (27 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I wish to draw the Taoiseach’s attention to the issue of the nitrates derogation. I attended an IFA meeting just outside Dunleer approximately a month ago. Members of the Taoiseach's party were there. The meeting was to deal with the nitrates derogation and Aine O'Connell from the IFA dairy policy executive spoke. In fairness, sometimes one can get a better quality of narrative or...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It does not often happen that I back up a significant amount of what has been said. On what Deputy Paul Murphy said about what is happening in Nagorno-Karabakh, we all know the issues that have happened across the board as regards genocide. This is not the first time this has happened to Armenians. We know their long history. It is vital that the Government steps up on the right side of...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are back again having almost the same conversation. I thank People Before Profit-Solidarity for putting the motion forward. I have looked through daft.ieas I usually do. It does not make for any better reading. There is a good sprinkling on that website of, I think, 11 properties in Dundalk and 12 in its surrounds. That is one more than when I looked last week. There is also a good...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (26 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Minister spoke about putting pressure on local authorities. Sometimes that is required. As Deputy Donnelly said, we need some kind of cross-departmental outlook for this. When we talk about LEADER funding, the town and village renewal scheme or the urban regeneration development fund, URDF, under the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and what I would like to see done...

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is all I will need.

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It has already been said. What the Government is doing with these increases in October is heaping pain on pain. We can talk about childcare workers, people under pressure who do not have any information about plans to deal with mortgages and rents, the cost of shopping, or the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, that does not even want the powers to be able to deal with the madness...

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Government has an opportunity to at least mitigate some of the pain. We can at least talk about fossil fuel replacement-----

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: -----but at this time we do not even know how the renewable electricity support scheme, RESS, 3 auction will go. The Government needs to get its act together on that. Let us be real.