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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (18 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 817. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in CHO7 waiting for a HSE approved shower chair; and the average waiting time for same. [51862/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (18 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 818. To ask the Minister for Health the locations nationwide in which hearing aids and related items can be repaired. [51863/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 819. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant cardiologists at Naas General Hospital in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [51864/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ministerial Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 880. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of full-time superintending veterinary inspectors and senior superintending veterinary inspectors employed by his Department as of 1 April 2020 and 12 October 2022, in tabular form. [51865/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (19 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 93. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount that the Defence Forces spent on replacement musical instruments for members of the Defence Forces School of Music in the year 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; the supplier that was awarded the contract to provide replacements; and the musical instruments that were replaced. [52214/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 246. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the CervicalCheck testing of samples will resume at a hospital (details supplied); the reason for the delay in resuming services at this location: the number of staff that have been recruited for the testing of samples at this location; the number of vacancies that are outstanding [52312/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 247. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of hospitals that export CervicalCheck samples for testing to other jurisdictions; and the number of samples that have been exported by hospital in 2022. [52313/22]

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: There are at least three elements to redress, the first of which is acknowledging what happened to those to whom it happened as it is their truth. The second is holding those responsible to account. The third is financial compensation; not that financial compensation can redress some of the things that happened to people and how it traumatised their lives. Survivors were asked to put...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 2. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she will take to ensure that the recruitment of new gardaí and civilian staff following the budget 2023 allocation to her Department will meet the announced target; if she has engaged with Garda management in respect of the new recruitment campaign; and the date on which it will commence. [52296/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: This question relates to Garda recruitment and the announced targets, for which funding has been provided. What is the Minister's role in ensuring those targets are met? Does she engage with the Garda Commissioner about recruitment campaigns? Is she satisfied with a situation where targets are not met? What engagement is there to ensure targets are met?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It is important that we increase the strength of the force but deployment once that happens is another matter. We are always told that is exclusively the responsibility of the Garda Commissioner. Fairness is required in that regard. Population is not the only metric that should be used but the Minister's constituency and my constituency, for example, are counties. Meath and Kildare are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It must be a huge embarrassment that the Minister's own county of Meath has slightly less than half the national average of the ratio of gardaí to population. That has an impact on the type of policing and the level of detection. The result is a reactive type of policing, as opposed to proactive policing that includes an adequate number of community gardaí. There is a need for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Today's from the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, about the wastewater treatment plants is very concerning. Millions of litres of raw sewage continue to be discharged into our rivers and our seas every day. Only half of our sewage was treated to EU environmental standards in 2021. That is way below the EU average of 90%. In Ringsend, which is in the Minister's constituency, sewage is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: The water framework directive dates to 2005. We are still not meeting the target. We are only at 50% at this stage. There have been two reports this week from the EPA, one of which the Minister has cited. If this is not about a shortage of money, it is very concerning that plans have not been provided to the EPA with targets for those other 27 projects. I also have concerns about the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: In his opening statement, Mr. Moloney talked about strategic policymaking in terms of the transformation of the public service and stated that it was vital that public expenditure be managed in a planned, balanced and evidence-informed manner, and I completely agree. That is why I continue to find it difficult to see the rationale of ceasing to use Benefacts, a large database for the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Is there any reason it would not be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas and be publicly available?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: The Central Statistics Office, CSO, in correspondence with this committee, talked about its reliance on Benefacts in regard to EUROSTAT. We could be exposed to fines eventually. For the next year or two, the CSO will be able to project, from the base information that was provided by Benefacts, what they might be but that information will be exhausted over a short period. What is Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Did Mr. Moloney consider offering it to the Department of the Taoiseach given the Minister of State at that Department has a function in respect of the CSO? Was that view canvassed? Was there engagement with that Department?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Did Mr. Moloney’s Department ever use the information provided by Benefacts in respect of, for example, pay and pensions? Was that function used?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: The Department made no use of Benefacts in respect of pay and pensions and extrapolating that information.