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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Food Prices (29 Jun 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 79. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he intends to meet food production companies in the near future to discuss the high cost of retailed/end product food items in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31587/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (29 Jun 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has considered the impact on Border third-level institutions of a later-than-usual Leaving Certificate results day, as Border third-level institutions need to attract Northern-based students who will receive UCAS offers based on their A Level results on August 17; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31590/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Jun 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that are in place to ensure the maximum number of second-level students who apply for places under the school transport scheme for the 2023-2024 academic year will get them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31591/23]

Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Report 2022: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is clear that water quality needs to be maintained and improved upon. Here again farmers have their role to play in relation to this. Like many others, I have spoken to many farmers who have agreed with that. The challenge for us in this House is to put in a workable framework to facilitate them in meeting their part and their responsibilities. I am going to deal with the nitrates...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: According to the Taoiseach, the Minister of State will give some sort of update in relation to a number of issues including Serbia and Kosovo. At the Committee on European Union Affairs earlier we were dealing with the western Balkans. We know the story, in the sense that the EU was not necessarily serious about accession for a number of years. There was an element of dealing with the rule...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (28 Jun 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: When the Taoiseach and I discussed this matter previously, he spoke about the engagement he would have with the Joint Committee on Autism’s report. We all know the issues that exist for parents and children who cannot get assessments and necessary therapies. The report makes 109 recommendations on creating a framework for autistic people to live in society, including the necessary...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Jun 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I wish to follow up on migration on the basis that we are all aware of the huge openings there are and the lack of positions we have right across the health service, whether we are talking about those who work in nursing homes, those who work in home care, our speech and language therapists, SLTs, or our occupational therapists, OTs, and we know the issue we have in the building sector....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will not go back over the argument that we need a citizens’ assembly or an expanded shared island dialogue. We see the Narrow Water Bridge project is moving on. It and the A5 are necessary pieces of infrastructure which we want to see progress as much as possible. I wish to ask about shared island funding for research projects. We know what it has done in the whole education...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Enlargement and the Western Balkans: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I thank Mr. Laják. His presentation was not only comprehensive but very interesting. We expected some of it. It is fair to say, and this is a point that many of us have made many times, that prior to the Ukrainian crisis and the Russian invasion the EU was not particularly serious about further accession. Let us be clear, the EU had its own worries regarding rule-of-law issues,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Enlargement and the Western Balkans: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What is the figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Enlargement and the Western Balkans: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I thank Dr. Visoka. His last point on the fear of an eastern shift is one of the first points we made. To a degree, that has created the stasis. The language has changed somewhat since the onset of the Ukrainian crisis, but the impression I get from Dr. Visoka and the previous speaker is that people are not seeing this in real terms. Representatives from North Macedonia were before the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Enlargement and the Western Balkans: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What sort of concessions?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I apologise. I had to speak in the Dáil and I have suddenly discovered I am not as fit as I thought I was as I tried to run over and back. An awful lot has been dealt with, or not dealt with. If we get down to the contract, there is huge disappointment out there, and the sense I get is that the only place there is more disappointment than among the public is among those people who...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Eventually, we will get to an answer but I do not think there is anyone out there in the wider world who does not believe that the only reason for this was to conceal the payments in respect the figures that are actually displayed to the public. I apologise if I have missed anything, but at this point in time RTÉ is saying Ryan Tubridy's contract is what way exactly?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is obviously a fair bit of commentary on this. There is a slight dispute on it, and I will just read this quote rather than paraphrasing it. However, a source close to Mr Tubridy told the Irish Independent he does not believe that his contract is terminated and plans to contest that assertion by the national broadcaster. "We reject the suggestion that the contract is terminated....

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: -----but RTÉ is still saying categorically at this point that there is no contract.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is it. Would it be fair to say that his contract is not terminated at this point in time?