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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: To clarify, Mr. Hogan, regarding the level of output based on last year, were last year's figures acceptable?

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: A slow pace.

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: So it is a case of do not bother if you are building a one-off house.

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 am not seeing the results of the conscious effort. Mr. Hogan has explained the delay of 13 months.

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: What can Mr. Hogan say to the woman who has waited 13 months?

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: Will Mr. Hogan address the 13-month delay after this meeting?

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: The Department is here for An Bord Pleanála.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: Wexford has been rocked over recent days by the announcement of the closure of the Ford Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre. It is to close its doors after 30 years of providing individuals and families in Wexford with access to affordable counselling and therapy. The closure will be an immense loss for the community. The Ford centre provided services the State failed to provide. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (25 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 186. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the provision of a primary care centre in New Ross, County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46829/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (24 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the charging costs on public electric vehicle charging are included in the pending energy cost price reductions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46333/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (24 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 164. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason there has been a huge increase in the past 12 months on the cost of charging an electric vehicle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46334/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (24 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline any plans there are to regulate the public electric vehicle sector in relation to charging costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46335/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provision her Department is making to increase places in ASD special education units/classes in secondary schools in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46054/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the lack of secondary school places for pupils transitioning from primary school ASD education units/classes in the New Ross district, County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46055/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (24 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 526. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 569 of 3 October 2023, if he will advise on communications from the national medical card unit which states that under the revised GP Contracts 2023 the HSE is no longer in a position to assign GPs to clients and that the onus will now be on individuals to find their own GP, ending the practice of three refusals and...

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: I would be the first person to say efficiencies can be made not just in health but in all Departments and county councils across the country. However, this discussion concerns investment in healthcare. The health budget has been cut and the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform has given no indication as to where the savings can be made. I ask the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: In County Wexford, Acquired Brain Injury Ireland provides crucial services to brain injury survivors in the community, such as the home and community rehabilitation and assisted living services, alongside a clubhouse service in Wexford, which I have had the great pleasure of visiting and had a tour of. The clubhouse provides peer support and group rehabilitation. This week, thousands of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: I cannot say I agree with the Taoiseach on many of those points. When the Taoiseach says demand-led measures, the demand he is aiming for is a target of 30,000. That is half of what the Housing Commission says we should be aiming for. For the past ten years, we have incurred a deficit of 250,000 homes. That is 25,000 a year less than we should have been building. If the Taoiseach...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: I hope the Taoiseach had the opportunity to read David McWilliams's article in Saturday's edition of The Irish Timesgiving his opinion on the budget with regard to housing. If the Taoiseach did not get a chance to read it, let me put some of the main points to him. He starts off by highlighting the folly of awarding a tax break on mortgages, which sounds nice in theory but in practice only...

Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: It beggars belief that at a point when we have so many serious road accidents, we have not addressed the RSA. We need to reprimand it. The Minister stated previous to the Minister of State that representatives from the RSA had appeared before the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications. I endorse Deputy Nolan's request that they be brought back before the committee. We are...