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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: UN Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I know, I am bringing it to a point. Why do you always stop me, a Chathaoirligh? You just elongate the process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: UN Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: It is a fact, and I get it, that there is a shift because of changed circumstances around defence and security. How does that play into what the institutions do? I get that after Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine strategic autonomy now actually means something as opposed to just being two words that were bandied around. Mr. Donoghue said the institutions were weak and the individual states...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: UN Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: My wife was listening too.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I apologise; I was at another committee meeting earlier so I did not hear all the back and forth. I do not think anyone would be shocked to realise that there has not been a solution with regard to the dental treatment service scheme, DTSS, and dental care for people on medical cards. It is an ongoing issue. We keep hearing about interaction and interventions by the Department and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Yes, but we have to get answers about whether the capacity exists in the private sector. We have no choice but to utilise all services that are available, be they private or public. While the cross-border health directive is imperfect, for many people it is the only solution, particularly those in my constituency who would find it a bit easier than those who come from further afield. Dr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: What would the timeframe be on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: We have made the representation at this point. We would direct one set of questions to Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown as a possible solution, but that would need to happen fast. It cannot be beyond the scope of the HSE to find a solution. I understand that it deals with many issues and has many moving parts, but we are going around in circles. We thought we had a workaround using the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I appreciate that. I just have one last question in relation to the DTSS, which I missed. What is the lay of the land in relation to the Irish Dental Association's interactions with the Minister and the Department and getting to a solution? We have been talking about this forever.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Is it the case that he has not done that yet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Right. When was the last time the Irish Dental Association had an interaction with the Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Yet, currently, the association is waiting for him to click the officials into operation and that has not happened yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Could the committee make an intervention and possibly ask the Minister to get himself into gear?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Glacial. It has not moved at all. We are having the same conversation we had previously. We can all table motions, Private Members’ Bills and all the rest. We have all asked multiple parliamentary questions. Everybody gets up and says they realise this is an issue and that this is incredibly serious, but it has not moved. They say that it is with the Minister, and we are awaiting...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Could I get a bit more detail? I think we all welcome any moves as regards AIMS, and I really like the idea of targeted supports, but the problem is that we are all aware of desperate sets of circumstances. We all know that we need to see full wraparound family supports and full interventions. In an awful lot of cases we deal with issues where kids have been left in the most chaotic of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [15166/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: What plans are there to deal with violence? I am talking about both organised violence, that is, drug dealing, drug-debt intimidation and the wholesale violence that communities have to deal with and disorganised violence. That can be the crime of chaotic families, vulnerable people who are sometimes, for want of a better term, useful idiots who are used by drug gangs. Such chaotic...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: The Taoiseach will accept that across Europe and the European Union, there is movement in the direction of security and defence co-operation. We have seen that Ursula von der Leyen is very concerned about making sure there is an EU-wide military-industrial complex. That is the only way I can put it. We have seen how destabilised the world is, right across Africa and the Middle East. While...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (30 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 106. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the recent engagement his Department has had with other Government Departments and Ministers to progress the full rollout of the autism protocol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19132/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (30 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 124. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures being taken by his Department to review and improve the waiting times and outcomes for assessment of needs, the provision of therapies for children with disabilities through the CDNTs, primary care and adult services for people with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19131/24]

Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I realise that-----