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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will next meet. [15165/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [13013/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [16355/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I am on record as saying that I would have much preferred for a general election to have taken place when the previous Taoiseach resigned. However, I wish the new Taoiseach luck in his role. There is no shortage of issues in front of him at this time. I raise the ever-present issue for many elected representatives of problems in our dealings with Uisce Éireann. Lately, I have been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress being made to open additional autism units for children for September 2024 at primary and second level in County Louth; the number of places she expects to be available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16357/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the review process that is underway for any school that is not happy with its SET hours allocation; the number of reviews received and the outcome of those reviews; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16358/24]

Anniversary of the Introduction of the Smoking Ban: Statements (11 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: We are here to welcome 20 years of the smoking ban. I recall some of the conversation at the time in the public domain. It was like the roof was going to fall in and that it was going to be impossible. I absolutely agree with Deputy Gould when he says that it was a brave move. I congratulate people on the work that has been done. We have seen that it has been transformative. I...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (11 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the results and plans for implementation of the review completed by his Department on local authority adaptation grants and when the new measures contained in the review will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15164/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (11 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration is being given to provide a grant scheme, independent of the disabled persons grants administered by local authorities, for building or capital works for homeowners who have family members with significant disabilities that mean their homes are not suitable for the person to live in; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Sector Staff (11 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the impending mandatory retirement of a retained firefighter in Louth (details supplied); if plans to raise the mandatory retirement age will be finalised in time to allow him to remain on working; if he will consider issuing a circular to local authorities about the raising of the retirement age; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Sector Staff (11 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the impending mandatory retirement of a retained firefighter in County Louth (details supplied); if plans to raise the mandatory retirement age will be finalised in time to allow him to remain on working; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15162/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Sector Staff (11 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what is the timeline for raising the mandatory retirement age for retained firefighters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15161/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Road Projects (11 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a mechanism available to deal with a sight line issue during the construction of a major road project in Dundalk (details supplied), if it is under consideration by his Department; if his Department has been in contact with other Government departments in order to find a solution; and if he will make a statement...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until the next weekly division time.

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: We all realise how lucky we have been to have corporation tax income but the fact is that some of it is windfall revenue and cannot be relied on. Everybody understands the idea of putting money away for a rainy day but I will hardly be the first person to say that unfortunately it is raining for a lot of people at this point in time. I do not see how Sinn Féin could in any way...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (10 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 17. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an update on the work of the Office for the Promotion of Competition in the Insurance Market, particularly in relation to reducing the cost of public liability insurance; to outline his Department’s recent engagement with insurance companies, including new insurance companies, about the high cost of public liability insurance; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Flexible Work Practices (10 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 38. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the survey that was carried out related to cross Border workers and the issues they face in relation to working from home, income tax and social protection; if his Department has had any recent engagement with the Assembly or the British Government on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15157/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) is not able to open an additional autism unit at the school in September 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14810/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a mechanism available to a council tenant who was allocated an OPD property that was not specially adapted and whose circumstances have now changed after getting married, to purchase the property under the tenant incremental purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13660/24]