Results 1-20 of 334 for long speaker:Ruairi Ó Murchú

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...looking after the needs that people have, particularly where health is involved. We are talking about people who have been through huge pain. I would like to think the Government will work alongside the Opposition if we put forward amendments. There are obviously issues because there will be a financial aspect to some of the amendments, which creates a difficulty for us. I would...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...are being uploaded but there seems to be an issue with getting them checked. I do not know if there are enough checkers. I have also been told that paper applications are taking an incredibly long time - longer than anticipated at this point in time. I know we constantly have this issue but there is a need to streamline the service. It would be beneficial if the checks to find...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...off at a different place. Ms Healy got the point across on the National Learning Network. My office has dealt with the NLN in Dundalk. People have been in short term and some have been in long term. My notion of what the NLN did was probably somewhat different. It deals with people with disabilities, mental health conditions, brain injuries and special educational needs. The way Ms...

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

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...harm reduction means. We have all seen those people who were able to wean themselves off cigarettes, who had tried many times before and failed. This was the means by which they did it. That was long before we saw the bubblegum-flavoured vapes and so on. We know that we have to go much further. When talking about kids, including many young kids, it is incredibly worrying. It is not...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...at this in 2021, 2022 or 2023, while dealing with grade 4s at huge cost. I am glad people are getting some necessary works, but we really need to deal with the worst-case scenario because, in the long term, they will be under severe pressure and serious harm will be done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...locations or in their own sitting rooms. Some are their general opinions but there are mistruths, lies and all the rest. There is stuff they may believe that is absolutely wrong. It would take a long time to make complaints individually on all of that. I wish to ask about Coimisiún na Meán's engagement with social media companies. We can have all the rules and regulations but...

Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion (7 Mar 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...students out there. Like every other representative in here, I have been contacted by any number of teachers, principals and schools. That is something we need to deal with. It did not take very long until it got into the subject of CDNTs. Alongside that committee, there was the committee on disability matters, which was dealing with the HSE. There was complete acceptance in regard to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (5 Mar 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...question related to community centres. I have spoken to the Minister of State previously about Muirhevnamor Community Centre and the great work it does. We need to look at ways of providing long-term sustainability. Blackrock Haggardstown Community Centre applied for CSP funding but failed to secure it, even on appeal, on the basis of displacement. It says it now has an insufficient...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: It would be wrong if I did not mention at this stage my long-suffering wife, Annemarie, and my mother, Marian. I owe them many apologies and thank them very much. Go raibh maith agaibh.

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024: An Dara Céim - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...end, so I apologise in advance. The fact is that this is quite complex for many people. It is going to be incredibly technical. We all know the issues that have existed with referendums for a long time and from time to time, spurious arguments have been made, sometimes refuted and sometimes not so well refuted. We will need to make sure that due diligence is carried out in that regard....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (27 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...with disabilities hit 18, this often just falls off a cliff. It is a case of looking at all of those things and finding the parameters with regard to how those moneys can be administered. In the long term, we need to look at these courses in the context of SUSI, but I welcome that the Minister is looking at the Act.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (27 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...towards having people with disabilities engage with business and industry, which is a necessity. The Minister would be shocked if I did not bring up the case we have been dealing with for a long time and that he mentioned earlier, that of personal assistants in further education. Obviously, we are looking for a follow-up meeting with the Minister and it is to be hoped that between his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...the stuff that they have in the North as regards proxies and having greater access to postal voting for people who are on holidays. In some cases holidays or family events may have been booked a long time in advance. It is incredibly difficult to do. The checktheregister.ie facility is good but there is a need for a bit of dickying it up. I am talking about a couple of "if"...

Paediatric Orthopaedic and Urology Services: Motion [Private Members] (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...on and they spend more time on waiting lists, they worry that their conditions will become worse and that the possibility of an operation will become that bit more distant. We do not know what the long-term ramifications will be. We need solutions and timelines. We really need to stop the pain. None of this is good enough. Once again, we have absolutely failed those families and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reviews (15 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the review completed by his Department on local authority adaptation grants; how long it is expected to be under consideration by the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform; when he expects it to be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the...

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...“historic” before but I think we need to look at what happened when Michelle O'Neill became First Minister. I congratulate her on that. She is the first nationalist First Minister in the North. It has been a long journey from Basil Brooke, James Craig and a Protestant parliament for a Protestant people. We are delighted that we have an Executive up and running. I also...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Middle East (14 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider calling on the Israeli government to lift its restriction on supplies of insulin, other diabetes supplies and all other medications for long term conditions from entering Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7017/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: .... We all understand, particularly when talking about alcohol, that if it was discovered today, it would be banned outright but prohibition probably does not work across the board. We could have a long conversation on drugs but today is not the day for that. There needs to be proper interaction with the commission on taxation and between health and finance in getting down to basics. It...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...There are plans in place to upgrade it and that would need to happen as soon as possible. There are danger issues in this regard. Jimmy Myers and I had engineers from the council out there not so long ago. At some level, what is coming back is it is an enforcement issue but we need to find a means of dealing with that. It is a particularly dangerous piece of road. The Minister of...

United Kingdom Import Controls: Statements (25 Jan 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...place, and that goes without saying. Deputy Mac Lochlainn made a point about the difficulties that have been faced and the many bad deals those who work in the fishing industry have had to deal with for a long time. Once again, these impositions will badly impact on them. We need to have a greater level of Government intervention in dealing with them. I am sorry that the Minister,...