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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Sin é.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: We all welcome the moves relating to preventative care. As part of a perfect solution, we would eventually have a sufficient level of public dentistry to provide what is required. I am glad that some people are getting necessary dental care through the private sector. The numbers have obviously jumped. In 2021, in the Louth-Meath area, 77 patients were accepted at a cost of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I would appreciate that. The parents are very worried and probably a bit perturbed when they are contacted the HSE, not with a date but to ask whether they have already taken action by going to the North. As much as we want public provision, we need to find a solution for these patients similar to category four patients. I ask for that note as soon as possible. It would really make a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (2 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 11. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the review under way into the funding and provision of post-mastectomy products; when the review will be completed; if stakeholders, including cancer survivors and post-mastectomy product fitters, will be consulted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19294/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (2 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I ask the Minister to provide an update on the review underway into the funding and provision of post-mastectomy products, when the review will be completed and if stakeholders, including cancer survivors and post-mastectomy product fitters, will be consulted? We all know the issue that blew up inside this Chamber and on the Joe Duffy show on radio. I was contacted by Alison McCabe from...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (2 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Hopefully, that will be done as soon as possible. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle allowed a breach of protocol and I thought it was very useful when the Minister got up and explained that this was not going to happen. There is a need to deal with protocols regarding how stuff like this happens. More important, we need to ensure this review involves engagement with consultants, breast care...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: What are the Minister's plans to expand public dentistry services? I have spoken to the Minister previously about orthodontic care. I refer in particular to the hundreds of under-18s who are on the waiting lists for orthodontic treatment. In my area, I refer to the centre based in Louth County Hospital. Category four cases are being dealt with privately and huge amounts are being spent on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (2 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 19. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider funding an organisation (details supplied) for patient services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19293/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Climate Change Policy (2 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the targets for 2024 for the climate division of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19814/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (2 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 96. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what engagement there has been between his Department and other Government departments this year in relation to the delivery of necessary flood protection schemes in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19815/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (2 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the numbers of students expelled from courses at each technological university and institute of technology from 2020 to date; the reasons for the expulsions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19945/24]

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

Ruairi Ó Murchú: There will be much agreement about the State's dreadful history of institutional abuse. As my colleagues and many others have said, an enormous number of people were put into institutions against their will. Those institutions include mother and baby homes, institutional schools and all those places where this State has a dark history and where people were very badly treated. We all know...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: It is to happen before the summer. It is just that 24 May is the deadline?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I need to bring up an issue that relates to Dunleer fire station and John Molloy, who is the retained fire station officer and who is about to turn 60 on 24 May. The problem is that the legislation has not yet been amended to increase the mandatory retirement age from 60 to 62. I initially dealt with the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien. It has now gone to the Department of Public...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: It is vital that in any engagement with the American Administration, serious emphasis is placed on where the Irish people stand on the brutal slaughter of the Palestinian people. I am afraid to even talk about the number of deaths now. It is possibly 34,000, and probably a lot more, with 70% of them women and children. We have all heard that Netanyahu has made a promise, no matter what...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet next. [17707/24]

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

Ruairi Ó Murchú: This morning, I heard that 33,000 passport applications were received last week. At this point, there is a backlog. Staff are obviously working. I think everyone would say that we get a great service with the Oireachtas line. I have questions about overtime. Whenever there are issues, all resources are brought to bear because we do not want people missing holidays, etc. People are...

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

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I apologise as I had to head to another committee and then somebody else came and took my spot, but that is life.

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

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I have to be careful; I do not like handing it over to anybody. The issue we are dealing with, depending on who is speaking at what particular time, leaves you either hopeful, hopeless or lacking all hope altogether. We all know we are talking about sustainability and that for the SDGs to mean anything they have to be built into every aspect of what we do. That is obviously at every level,...

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.