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Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Tá muid sásta déileáil leis seo inniu. Without a doubt, we are all very happy to be dealing with this legislation. On some level, I agree with whoever said earlier that we need this to happen as quickly as possible. It should have happened earlier. We all know why the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up. We have all seen what it has done at State level and locally....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (17 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 11. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress being made on plans for additional funding to Uisce Éireann to progress large-scale infrastructure projects following the review of the national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40118/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (17 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We all know the issues that are impacted by Uisce Éireann. It says that delivering infrastructure can take more money. In my own constituency, even in the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, report, we have question marks in relation to everything from Cabinhill to Greenmount and Tallanstown. We need to see movement on all of this.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (17 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I suppose we need to see that review as soon as possible. Has the Minister any information in relation to what he reckons that timeline will be for the sectoral allocations? Some of what I am talking about, particularly in the case of Dundalk, falls into the bracket of projects that have been timelined. The three projects I mentioned - Cabinhill, Tallanstown and Greenmount - have had...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (17 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I hope the interaction that we have is in relation to delivery. Some of the projects I spoke about earlier have been timelined. It is a matter of ensuring that those timelines are at least met. They are timelines that have been set further back than we would have anticipated or wanted. There are particular issues. I welcome the Minister's statement that there is need for a greater...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (17 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is a matter of delivering in all this. We are not where we need to be and we need to get there.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (17 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Flexibility is always welcome in a Chair.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I do not think anyone has a particular issue with providing corporate governance arrangements and accountability for the HSE. Deputy Cullinane dealt with this from the point of view of the smoke and mirrors we are seeing here. We are not seeing any real change with any of this. It is all well and good to look like the State is getting tough with the HSE about budget failures and overruns,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I want to take up the issue of a child who is registered blind and who is due to start at Rampark National School in north Louth in September. The child can navigate around quite well but he is sensitive to lighting levels and they greatly affect him. It has been stated that he needs an SNA from a health and safety perspective. The principal of the school says communication with the NCSE...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Taoiseach.

Messages from Select Committees (15 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2025: Votes 16, 23 and 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage. The Select Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (15 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Michael Cahill - To discuss the long-awaited ban on pair trawling. Deputy Paul Murphy - To discuss plans to assist vaginal mesh survivors. Deputy Dessie Ellis - To discuss the banning of surgical artificial insemination in...

Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (15 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Seanad Éireann has passed the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025 without amendment.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (15 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I get the arguments in relation to narrowness and whatever else but would it be fair to say the Minister accepts there is an issue, that anything should be done from a point of view of ensuring that the Central Bank and the State is not facilitating the sale of these Israeli war bonds and everything should be done at a European level and on a domestic level in relation to making sure that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (15 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 99. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement there has been between his Department, other Government Departments, agencies and legal advisers in relation to the facilitation by the Central Bank of the sale of Israeli war bonds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39278/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (15 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I ask the Minister what engagement he has had, or what engagement his Department has had, with other Government Departments, agencies or legal advisers on the facilitation via the Central Bank of the sale of Israeli war bonds. We are talking about Israeli genocide bonds in real terms. We know there is a particular issue where this State has actually invested in and profited off this but we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (15 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I think the Minister was quite clear in saying there were issues with regard to the Sinn Féin Bill. While I might contest that, I am asking whether, as a State, we have engaged with and looked at any means by which this State and the Central Bank of this State would not be facilitating these Israeli war or genocide bonds. I do not know what else you can call them. There is the...

Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (15 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I do not think anyone is going to stand up and say they are not happy or relieved, if those are the right terms, at the establishment of the commission of investigation into the handling of historical child sexual abuse in day and boarding schools. Sometimes when you say it quickly, you do not get the full ramifications of what we are talking about. We know there have been huge failures...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I have raised disability housing previously and the issue that has arisen with capital assistance scheme, CAS, funding. This was raised with me by St. John of God in reference to its approved housing body's dealings with the county councils in both Louth and Meath regarding the purchase of properties necessary for those with disabilities. They have been told by the local authorities that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What is not in play? What do you want out of this?