Results 3,021-3,040 of 8,745 for speaker:Verona Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: We do not have dentists providing dental treatment in Wexford.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: It is utter chaos. The fund is currently €20 million less than it was ten years ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: Not one final- year OT was offered a job by the HSE this year, nor could the HSE say how many OTs were qualified.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: There is a chronic deficit in communication on how many we need in education and in services.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: Currently, only €62 million in funding is provided. That figure was €80 million in 2008.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: There are a lot of deficits. We have no emergency service for adults in Wexford. The hospital intervention service for patients with special needs, requiring anaesthetists to be available, has been reduced to operating one day a week. It is everything. There is no early intervention, which means that we might as well be throwing the €60 million into a black hole. As Deputy...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: Do we know why this is?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: We have discussed it previously but the reality is that a huge amount of money is expended and entrusted to the local authorities. It is in excess of €1.2 billion. I understand that the Comptroller and Auditor General does not have an audit function over them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: Yet when we requested those who do to come before the committee, they declined. The real question is who is overseeing them. Is it appropriate oversight if they cannot keep records of something so significant?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: They are supposed to be independent.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: That in itself is a question. It is about good governance. I have sat in council meetings where councillors have asked for independent advice and they have been asked "what for" by the person who would sanction it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: There is reference on page 52 to note 29. On page 29 it states that judicial review information has been submitted. Do we have this on our system?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: The correspondence states, "The absence of regular and standardised surveys by local authorities of their housing stock and a national asset management database to capture the survey information gives rise to this data gap." That takes us back again to the same issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: No. This is what I am talking about. We are in the middle of a housing crisis, but when we specifically asked the chair of An Bord Pleanála to point out where in the specific planning policy requirements, SPPRs, it stated there were minimum densities, he replied with the same letter that he sent two years ago, despite the fact that, after receiving that letter, the Minister declared in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: We have a housing crisis. The real issue is that houses are not being built. Planning permissions are not being applied for because minimum densities are being imputed. With a minimum density of 35 dwellings her hectare, we are getting terraced houses and apartments. Apartments are expensive to build. I am not talking about Dublin or city-oriented policy, which really only means Dublin....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: To ask him to point out specifically where in legislation minimum densities are imputed. Where does it say in legislation that we must apply a minimum density of 35 dwellings per hectare, which is what the regulator is claiming?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: Absolutely. If we are ever going to get over the housing crisis, this issue has to be addressed. We are discussing schemes but schemes are only available if houses are built, and houses are not being built in rural and regional Ireland because of this specific reason.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: It is cheaper to build a three-bedroom house than a one-bedroom apartment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: Apartments are not needed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: People do not want to live in them either.