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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)

Verona Murphy: Let us consider the banking regulator and the banking fiasco. Did the Department learn anything from the banking fiasco and regulator? Has the Department anything to say after all of these instances? It is like the Department is arriving breathless to the scene of the accident when everything has occurred and nobody foresaw what was happening, even though we have all of these regulators....

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)

Verona Murphy: I thought the regulator was the overseer, which effectively made the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform the regulator of the finances for all of the other Departments but clearly-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Is this the item we discussed before Deputy Catherine Murphy left?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Yes. Is this not part of it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: May we hold it over until she returns?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: I agree we need more information because what we have is very scant.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: This week, the strategic workforce advisory group published its report for the carers sector. It recommends that carers be added to the eligible group for work permits. The recommendation is that 1,000 work permits be issued. I imagine that strategic group is working across all sectors. We should at least try to find out if that is the case.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: 177. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department will publish the disability capacity review action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50739/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Yesterday I visited one of my local secondary schools, the Good Counsel College, New Ross, where a young man called Adam asked me about the rail review and where that currently stood. He wanted to know will a future Ireland for him consist of a high-speed rail network connecting Ireland's major cities. It must also be noted that while we await the review, there are significant projects...

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: I have several points to make. First, a number of constituents have raised with me the issue of benefit-in-kind adjustments. The writer of one email on the subject said: Dear Verona, I am writing to you about an issue which is going to affect my ability to feasibly do my job and whether or not I can continue in it. I am a sales rep. In the recent budget, the Government has proposed...

Visit of Czech Delegation (26 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: I ask Members to join me in welcoming the Czech delegation in the Distinguished Visitors Gallery, led by Mr. Stanislav Blaha and accompanied by the Czech ambassador, H.E. Mr. Petr Kynštetr. Céad míle fáilte to all our visitors. I hope their visit to Ireland will be enjoyable and productive.

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Thank you, Deputy.

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: The Deputy should wait for the response from the Minister.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: People's expectation to own their own home is now for many only a pipe dream. Why is that, if the economy was never stronger and employment levels are so high? NAMA is part of the answer. It was initially sold to the public as a system that would save the housing market by warehousing loans, but instead this changed midstream and those loans were sold to vulture funds, resulting in the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: I wish everybody a good morning. Going on Mr. McCarthy's opening statement, could he explain why seven years after the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on the reform of the guardian ad litem, GAL, service, we still do not have implementation of the recommendations? Can he explain that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: What did the legislation change?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Hold on a second. The Department accepted the issues at the time. It accepted the recommendations.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Are there issues regarding that versus the recommendations?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: I am asking a question about why the recommendations have not been implemented. I have looked at the legislation and at the recommendations and I do not see why not.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Has that happened?