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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Verona Murphy: Does Mr. Watt regard himself as a problem-solver?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Verona Murphy: I am sorry, this is a binary question. Is Mr. Watt saying "Yes" or "No"? Does he regard himself as a problem-solver? This is a question requiring a "Yes" or "No" answer.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Verona Murphy: I appreciate that. I have heard about the problems, but what I am not getting from Mr. Watt are the solutions. I say that because I believe the expectation of this committee, and of the public, is that we appoint people to positions to solve problems and not to be telling us what the problems are all the time. We appoint people to come up with solutions that reflect the fact that we have...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Verona Murphy: Not really. I am only using that as an example. This is reflective of the situation across the service. If the Chair wishes, I could go into the issue of the children’s disability network teams, CDNTs, and the debacle regarding the child disability network. We do not have a full child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, team anywhere in the country that is reflective of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Verona Murphy: Well, Mr. Watt is the head of the Department.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Verona Murphy: It is for Mr. Watt, as far as I am concerned.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Verona Murphy: I did say “some would say”.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Verona Murphy: Now, I disagree with that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Verona Murphy: They are borne out by the waiting lists challenge.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Verona Murphy: No, I-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Verona Murphy: There is no brief answer. I asked the question several times and I did not get an answer. It is important-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Verona Murphy: My time is up and I do not wish to take from anyone's time-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Verona Murphy: -----but someone else can ask the question. I cannot help but feel, however, regarding our health sector, that there is a need for a restatement and reaffirmation of the constitutional structures that underpin the workings of this committee and Dáil Éireann. The Dáil and this committee are not some ad hocforums to be tolerated or suffered by civil or public servants who come...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Verona Murphy: -----of the Accounting Officers and this committee, as well as a recognition and appreciation of the role of this committee. That is what I wish to see.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Verona Murphy: Then we might get somewhere in the health service.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (2 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: 303. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when all the details of the nurturing skills package will be released; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28438/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: 369. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of occupational therapist posts assigned within the primary care services in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28591/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: 370. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of speech and language therapist posts assigned within the primary care services in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28592/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: 393. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that his Department is making to provide multidisciplinary clinics with upskilled occupational therapists for post-Covid care in both acute hospitals and primary care services across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28733/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: 394. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place by his Department to ensure the upskilling of relevant medical practitioners in relation to long-Covid care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28734/22]