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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Verona Murphy: Absolutely. Maybe some lessons should be taken from down in Wexford. I do not know. The other thing is that we do have an issue when it comes to the farming sector with regard to who is responsible for reading these meters. One significant issue, I have raised this before, is that farmers themselves are not able to read the meters because they are at a significant depth, they cannot see...

Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...a million miles apart in the cost base but funding is the real issue. It is often too little too late. The problem we have is that we end up with the cost base eroding the Government input, and far in excess of it. If we look at the information the childcare federation has provided, it depicts matters quite well. It uses a stool to illustrate the position, and the providers are the...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...is one such problem. The problems with compliance it is facing are leading to water quality issues and the wrong people are being blamed. As for problems with electricity, connections are taking far too long. In fact, we are now not able to produce enough electricity and are turning down valuable investment. There is nothing in the proposed Planning and Development Bill that will solve...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (4 Jul 2024)

Verona Murphy: The most interesting thing the Minister has said so far is that there may be a proposal from the review to build a new rail line with the N11 upgrade. We are a small progressive country. The whole of Europe has a proper rail infrastructure that caters for people's needs. A shuttle service would be a retrograde step. The reality is we have to start somewhere and as a progressive country,...

Tackling All Forms of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (3 Jul 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...women's refuge could be kept as a safe house, when the new refuge is opened, in which supports could continue to be delivered to parents and children. Under the current system, there are huge welfare concerns in respect of children. What is the point of providing women and children with refuge for three months before, in effect, turning them back into society without any help or support?...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...rubbish that goes on with contradictions in terms. Can Mr. Rowland tell me how that contradiction has arisen? It is not on medical grounds. The medical evidence is that people over the age of 70 are far more competent drivers.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Verona Murphy: Your review will take far too long. This subject has been on the cards for ten years. It is Mr. Waide’s first time before the committee in five years. I have written to the Road Safety Authority several times but I have never gotten a response, email-wise-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Verona Murphy: As far as I am concerned, I have the details, but I certainly have not received a response, but I will take that. That could be a simple IT issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: -----say that we are so far behind in this country in making progress with public transport. The cart is put before the horse all of the time.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...is planning in place? Do entities that are set up out of the jurisdiction - for example, in Dubai - provide the Department with a tax clearance certificate? Does the Department enter into contracts with entities as far away as that, which do not have an Irish arm but happen to be the provider?

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

Verona Murphy: ...about 12 TDs who voted against the Climate Action Bill. The reason I did so was that the Government's current approach is ultimately not going to have the impact that was intended. If we look at farming, and the Minister with responsibility for that is in the House, in the context of this Future Ireland Fund Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill, it is important to note that...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...any speech and language therapy since 2019. She said she is absolutely at the end of her tether. Her daughter is suffering with mobility issues because her physiotherapy sessions are few and far between. To put it very simply, the CDNT in New Ross is just not fit for purpose. There is no speech and language service, no occupational therapist and no dieticians. It cannot go on that we...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: When would those 12 have been reported? Over what timeline? How far back would they date?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: I would rather have the Tusla and HSE representatives in on 8 February than the GSOC representatives. We have far more to lose by letting the issues I mentioned continue and fester. We need to know how the parent support elements of the Sláintecare plan are being rolled out. There are 19 healthy community programmes and we do not know at this stage what funding there will be for them....

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...in their key formative years but who just cannot afford to do so at the moment. Rather than campaigning to remove the provision from the Constitution, should we not be examining why our society has moved so far from this ideal? The mother in the home is a value that is appropriately recognised in the Constitution. It is very disappointing that the proposal seeks to remove that very...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...down by 1%, compared with a rise recorded among one-parent families with fathers with children, which is up by 13%. That means a large number of children are being brought up in situations where they see far more of one parent over another or may indeed not see the other parent at all. We also see in the census figures of 2022 that there has been a significant increase in the number of...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...throw up a few modular homes on any bit of land that is available, I do not find that acceptable. I do not think anybody does. The lack of communication in our communities is giving rise to the far right being able to cause problems and riots. We are expected to integrate. That is what communities do but not if they are placed in the back end of nowhere on a site that is not suitable...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...rap for it all but we all have a responsibility for integration, both to our own communities and to the refugees for whom we are responsible. We are not doing ourselves any favours in allowing a far-right element to blame the people for whom we cater in this regard. That is all I need to say on the matter. We all need to look at this a little more from a long-term perspective and stop...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Verona Murphy: Yes, but the question was regarding the Department's Estimates. How does the Department get them so wrong? Why are they so far out and why does the Department keep getting the money if the Estimates are so far out? There is underspend everywhere, yet not in this case. That was the question.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: I do not care how far it goes back. The bottom line is that Mr. Doyle spoke about transparency. This does not help the Department's case in that regard, and it does not help anybody to think that €4 billion should not be accounted for and that local authorities should be treated differently when it is being accounted for by everybody else. This is about grants. What is Mr. Doyle's...