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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Georgia's Application to join the European Union: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: The witnesses are both very welcome. It goes without saying that the Georgian ambassador has done incredible work. I am sure if Mr. Janjalia took a walk around, he would realise there is nobody in this place that the ambassador does not know or to whom he has not reached out previously. In fairness to him, he has done fierce work in presenting Georgia's case. A number of us were lucky...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Georgia's Application to join the European Union: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Mr. Janjalia is talking about plans in the area of sectoral co-operation, and looking for benefits from that co-operation with the EU. There are two things to address here. Ireland has a significant number of people coming from Georgia seeking international protection. It is about what Georgia is looking for in the long term from the point of view of work permits or visas, and then...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Georgia's Application to join the European Union: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Unfortunately, I have to agree with almost everything the Chair has said, but we do not need to-----.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Georgia's Application to join the European Union: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Yes. For want of a better term, we had the wobble around the foreign agents Bill. I know we dealt with this at committee, and it may be determined at some level that they would present it differently than it may have been presented in the media. Will they also deal with that particular issue in their answer? There will obviously be wobbles on this road, but we need to make sure we both...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Georgia's Application to join the European Union: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: We had protests in March about that legislation, which, I think, was the foreign agents Bill. I know that was dealt with at an EU level, so I would like it dealt with as part of the wider answer.

Renters: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: The Minister of State is in an invidious position in having to defend the indefensible when the Minister is not about when this dirty deed needs to be done. Let us be absolutely clear. We all agree that we need to deliver on affordable, cost-rental and council housing. However, the fact is that at this point in time we are dealing with a disgrace of a rental market that is in an abysmal...

Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: We have all seen the failure to extend the ceasefire and to introduce a permanent ceasefire. In the long-term, peace is needed to deliver a negotiated settlement that provides real self-determination for the Palestinian people. Unfortunately, Benjamin Netanyahu's regime has done what it threatened to do and has gone back to its abject slaughter of Palestinians. We can only take the lessons...

Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: What can we deliver at a European level? We need to hold Israel to account.

Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: We need to work with those states that will possibly work with us at European level, not those that are not willing to call for a ceasefire. Then, really and truly, we may have to go it alone.

Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with Arab and Islamic representatives to discuss the conflict in the Middle East. [53488/23]

Estimates for Public Services 2023: Programme for Government (5 Dec 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Could I get an update on the timeline for the inquiry into how the State dealt with the Covid crisis? Have we looked at what particular modules this will deal with? My specific question is about how we deal with those families who lost loved ones in nursing homes. This is not the first time I have brought up with the Taoiseach the issue of Dealgan House and the families of the 23 who lost...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tax Reliefs (5 Dec 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 95. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to report on what recent engagements her Department has had with the Department of Finance and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment regarding the implementation of section 481 film tax relief recommendations, as outlined by the Committee on Budgetary Oversight. [53475/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Policy (5 Dec 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 96. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht what plans, if any are being established to mandate local councils to invest in the arts, considering they are primary stakeholders in local arts centres, yet are not explicitly required to allocate funding to the arts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53476/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (5 Dec 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 209. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if previous experience in the North’s civil service is taken as relevant experience by the State’s civil service when it comes to deciding where to place a new hire from the North’s civil service on the pay scale here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53892/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (30 Nov 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Is the Tánaiste saying that the clause is included?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (30 Nov 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: It is included in the annex. Obviously that is very welcome. There has been much discussion, and, whatever about this particular agreement, other Members have brought up the Israel-EU Association Agreement, which is the basis of the European Union's relationship with Israel. It includes particular conditions. I would like to see what moves we have made with regard to those conditions from...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (30 Nov 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: There is an obvious reason for German guilt and guilt across eastern Europe about what happened. I do not think that is enough to countenance what Israel is doing to Palestinian people at this point. I am also saying that there may be other considerations. We know there are business and security interests. I have also accepted the difficulty in trying to get some sort of agreement at...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (30 Nov 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 179. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what sanctions he is willing to impose on Israel in order to increase international political pressure on it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49935/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (30 Nov 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: What sanctions is the State going to look at imposing in order to increase international political pressure on Israel? This is a continuation of the questions that I have asked about what we can achieve at a European level. If we cannot do it at a complete EU level, can we at least do it among those other states, like Belgium, that look at the issue in Gaza more from our perspective, rather...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (30 Nov 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Is the Tánaiste aware of the memorandum of understanding between the European Commission and Egypt at the Mediterranean Gas Forum and is he further aware that this does not include a clause to exclude occupied Palestinian lands which contravenes both Irish and EU policy that all agreements with Israel should be explicitly inapplicable to territories occupied by Israel, and could he...