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Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is very straightforward. This has been running for a week and half and we still do not know whether students - and in some cases their parents - will be paying €2,000 or €3,000. If we had the support of this Chamber and followed through on Sinn Féin's motion, students would be paying €1,500 next year. That is the clarity we need. How we got here, on some...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Legal and planning issues need to be addressed, without a doubt, but I agree with Deputy Kenny that the major issues, which we have all been dealing with when we talk to developers, builders, and local authorities, are infrastructure, bureaucracy, high costs and a difficulty drawing down finance for building. As regards this legislation, it is not the way to be doing business. As Deputy...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: And Uisce Éireann.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Exactly, but I am sure the Taoiseach would step in for us.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I would be delighted.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will be slightly in the Taoiseach's debt.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I would like to bring up the issue of Uisce Éireann infrastructure. We have all seen the recent EPA report. In my constituency, Louth, Cavanhill water treatment plant delivers to almost 47,000 people, and the Tallanstown and Greenmount plants together provide to another 6,000 approximately. The quality of these supplies must improve to safeguard public health. The supplies are at...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 26. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure will next meet. [35371/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [32141/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I would like to know the Government's plans to ensure there is an appropriate class place for all kids, particularly those with additional needs. We have seen the issues that occur every year. It has already been stated that the issue of assessment of need has been brought up again by Cara Darmody. We know there is a big fear that legislative changes would take away the right people have...

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe. I apologise for running in and out. The difficulty with this place is that everything is on at the same time. I will deal specifically with the NDA and disability. The opening statement is very short but, in fairness, there is a huge amount in it. We all want to have equality legislation that can vindicate rights and provide a buffer and even,...

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is a cost of disability.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is straightforward. Mr. Finlay is saying that, as much as possible within the legal framework, we should provide the tools whereby somebody can take these cases and then ensure it is explicit about what is persecution, for want of a better term, or a failure to deliver on what everyone else has a right to have. That is sound and straightforward. I will ask a very specific question....

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is while accepting there are serious charges that will always be taken into account relating to employment.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Ms Bayliss has gone into some of this and I am aware I missed some of the meeting. We dealt previously with some of these issues with regard to equality legislation, and it is about how we deal with the issue of equality for people so they are not impacted detrimentally by socioeconomic disadvantage. It is how we build this into the framework in a way that works and is reasonable. I will...

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I get that disadvantage and deprivation are big issues that have a large impact on those families, and are wider issues for society. When we do not deal with these issues, we will deal with the outworkings in the criminal justice system and everywhere else, where we continue to fail miserably.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This question is to IHREC. Regarding political ex-prisoners, the argument could be made on some level that some of this legislation might have been required previously. I am talking about those who were released under the Good Friday Agreement and had encountered issues with, for example, insurance and the right to adopt. At one stage, many of them had issues related to work. I remember a...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 40. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his discussions with the new Canadian Prime Minister. [30341/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 65. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the President of the European Commission in Brussels. [26978/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 70. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his call with Prime Minister Starmer on 13 May 2025. [26979/25]