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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.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: People are under severe pressure. The Government can help them out now by making sure there are no increases in the cost of petrol and diesel. People do not have a choice. They need to get in their cars and the Government could help to make that slightly cheaper, slightly easier to deal with in this cost-of-living crisis.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It seems that Fórsa has achieved a roadmap to job evaluation for its members in local authorities, which could mean the end of the industrial action. That is very positive except for those people who will now have to take calls and emails from me. If we are talking about housing, we know we need to see a complete escalation in respect of modern methods of construction. However, I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (26 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We need to see Government support for the stakeholder forum proposed by that report, which would deal with and look at all these issues and make sure they are aired properly, so that we can put in place a system that is fit for purpose. We all want to see the film industry blossom but we want to make sure that people are treated as they should be. The programme for Government speaks...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: No, I was just looking after Deputy Paul Murphy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will follow up on the issues raised by Deputy Boyd-Barrett, about companies that take section 481 tax relief. There have been a considerable number of allegations, especially about workers' rights being over-ridden and blackballing when people make complaints. We understand that some of this relates to how the film industry works, in the sense that it is project by project which can allow...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (26 Sep 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 71. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will report on the work being done by the stakeholders' group on control of dogs issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41341/23]