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Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: This is very frustrating. We are being given an awful lot of superfluous information that does not answer the initial question. I want a specific answer. There was an exponential increase, in the region of some 300%, in young people presenting with anorexia in Wexford during the Covid period. How does that measure against the HSE's targets, which we do not have? We need a paediatric...

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Who is close enough to know them?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Will Ms O'Connor actually come back to me? I have been asking for two years why we only have an allocation of 0.5 of a paediatric dietician, yet we have a 300% increase in cases of anorexia. I have asked this question of the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and CHO 5. I have written to everybody I can think of asking why our allocation has not been increased to one full-time equivalent, in...

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Is that not ridiculous? It seems the Business Postis correct in its report that the targets have been described as batshit. Would Ms O'Connor not say that description is appropriate and the targets are exactly that?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: I know Ms O'Connor cannot comment on it but that is what we are here for today. We are letting children and their families down. We cannot sit here complacently in such a way that we cannot hear one another. This is an absolute farce. The witnesses have come in here and they have to be eyeballed to answer these questions. They are evading most of them.

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Mr. Reid should only do so if he can answer the question. I would not advise him to try to reprimand me for anything I have said. I want straight answers. I want the children who are dealing with mental illnesses and their families to be accommodated. They are not able to swing off to wellness conferences.

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Does Mr. Reid have an answer to the question?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: I do not need a lecture.

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: The witnesses were asked a straight question and they cannot give a straight answer. That is the problem. It is very frustrating. I am only a politician; I am not the parent with a child suffering with mental health issues. The entire country is going to end up paying for this. I ask again why we do not have an allocation for a dietician for CAMHS in Wexford when there has been a 300%...

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: May I have an answer on the staffing levels for the children's disability network team in Wexford? Do we have full staffing levels there?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Wexford must be very unfortunate because we do not have an occupational therapist and we have a speech and language therapy waiting list that blows early intervention out of the water. Can Mr. Reid explain why we do not have an occupational therapist for these children in Wexford?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Will Mr. Reid reply to this question? There is a child in Wexford who has been waiting four years to see an occupational therapist. Does that sound like a service is being provided?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Four years might be a challenge at Mr. Reid's pay level but I can tell him that four years is a challenge for these parents. Early intervention is regarded as the primary factor in dealing with any of these issues. Mr. Reid really should look it up and see what it means. We have gone beyond the ridiculous. Since I last brought this up in the Dáil, we have a waiting list for dentists...

Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: A lot of language has been bandied about today. Phrases such as "legally permissible" and "comply with EU directives" have been used. The most important point is the price gouging. The price gouging that is going on is the tax on tax from the Government. All of the Minister's colleagues today said that they would go along with his measures. The Government is actually robbing the people....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Not removing the taxes is a measure we will all live to regret. Not doing so will increase the cost of the food the Government wants the farmers to produce up in the heavens and add to the cost of tractor fuel. Two cent a litre is a joke, but the farmers are not laughing. Not removing tax and VAT will drive inflation through the roof and drive the country head-on into a deep, dark...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: We are very nearly at that point, so the Government can prepare another €350 million or maybe even €1 billion to add to the Social Welfare bill we will have for the people who will not go to work.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Instead they will draw the dole and avail of all that goes with it. It is time for extraordinary measures. It is time the Taoiseach listened-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: -----and worked for the people of Ireland. It is time for him to be brave and grow a pair Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: It is time for a change of government.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Farcical.