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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...just like an excuse. I suggest the OPW is running out of excuses. The problem with not having accountability is that this is likely to happen again and again, which is the history of the OPW, as far as I have researched, going back 30 years. There has not been much improvement. Mr. Conlon is in a position to cure it. He will be back here next year. I may or may not be but if I am, I...

Spending of Public Funds by the Government: Motion [Private Members] (8 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...hospital waiting list one can think of. We do not have doctors in our countryside. So many people in Wexford cannot get referrals because they have no doctor. They cannot even apply for the social welfare that is required because they cannot get a doctor's report. What is the issue? Was it a prudent budget? No, it was a vote-buying budget. There is no doubt about that. What is...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Verona Murphy: He took everybody at their word. He saw nothing unusual, heard nothing unusual, as far as he was concerned everything that was in what was presented, he took to be for real and kosher.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community:

I welcome our guests. I remind people of their privileges and that they cannot participate if they are outside of Leinster House, etc. Those giving evidence have to be physically present within the grounds of Leinster House and should not criticise or make charges against any person, or identify him or her by name or in such a way that makes him or her identifiable. I think we all understand that.

I propose that we publish the opening statements from our witnesses. Is that agreed? Agreed. I suggest that we invite our witnesses to speak for five or ten minutes and that we allow members to ask questions and make comments for approximately five minutes. Members may ask more questions after everybody gets an opportunity to speak.

The committee is looking at Travellers' experience of the justice system. Today we will focus on Travellers in prison. The committee has already visited Castlerea Prison, Mountjoy Female Prison - the Dóchas Centre - and Oberstown Children Detention Campus. Travellers represent less than 1% of the population yet we make up 8% of male prisoners, 16% of female prisoners and 21% of children detained. The committee looks forward to hearing from our witnesses about this very important subject. We would like to hear about the experience of Travellers dealing with the justice system, including prison, and how we can make things better.

We are grateful to our witnesses for coming here today. They include representatives of the Irish Penal Reform Trust, the Traveller Justice Initiative, the Traveller Mediation Service and Barnardos.

Our witnesses are all very welcome here today.

It is very important for us as a committee to examine the justice system and, most importantly, why there are so many Travellers in prison in this country and what supports we need for Travellers. I am sure we all know the answers but it is important we document those answers and that this committee has a responsibility to work with the Traveller community.

We will begin with one quote a young man said to me in 2020. It was his first time to be in court and he was very nervous. I said to him he will be okay and that everything will be fine. He said, "No Eileen, I am already guilty." I said no, he would not be and that was up to the judge. He said, "I am guilty on the basis of being a member of the Traveller community." I want us all to be mindful of that before we start.

I will open it up to our witnesses. I ask Ms Saoirse Brady to begin.

(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...