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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: One question relates to whether minimum densities are contained in legislation.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: Canada and Australia.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: That is because we also have more homeowners than any other country in Europe, if the Department had considered that. This is the final question I want answered. Are minimum densities contained in legislation?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: It is a "Yes" or "No" question.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: Mr. Hogan needs to answer.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: That means they are not in law, does it not?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: The answer is "No".

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: I have just come from a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts at which officials from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage were before us. I am not impressed. Before the country is bankrupted, the Minister needs to have a discussion with his Secretary General and insist on a cost-benefit analysis for any of the schemes being brought forward. If he cares to look at...

Report on the Good Friday Agreement: Motion (1 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Deputy. That concludes what was a very important debate. I thank the committee for bringing forward its report on behalf of Oireachtas Members.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 May 2023)

Verona Murphy: 474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer’s allowance review initiated on 7 February 2023 for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26115/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (30 May 2023)

Verona Murphy: 778. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the current status of the application for a new 97-bed ward block at Wexford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26266/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (30 May 2023)

Verona Murphy: 801. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports available to Ukrainian students at higher level education who do not meet the three-year residency rule to qualify for a SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26073/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (1 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: 305. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the current status of respite services at Mulcahy House in Gorey, County Wexford; the discussions he has had with regard to the re-opening of the respite service at Mulcahy House; the expected date for its re-opening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26758/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: The Local Government Reform Act 2014, introduced by the Taoiseach's own party in Government, established the National Oversight and Audit Commission, NOAC, as an independent statutory body, to provide oversight of the local government structure in Ireland. Its functions involve scrutiny of performance generally and financial performance specifically. On 17 January last, the chair of NOAC,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: Of course.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: That is true and this is not the first time a local authority has been found wanting when it comes to the administration of its budgets as allocated by the Department of Housing, Heritage and Local Government. There is no oversight of spending and that is because nobody is answerable or accountable for the actions of the authorities. Similar shortcomings have been identified in recent times...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: It is still taxpayers' money.

Retained Fire Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: It is not often I am lost for words but I am a bit lost for words now. I know this is difficult for the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien. I can see it in his face and in his uncomfortable shifting around in his seat. I do not doubt this discussion makes him uncomfortable. Some of our front-line workers contacted me today, as did their partners, all of them in tears that they are out on...

Retained Fire Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: What about Robert Watt? What agreement did that come under?

Retained Fire Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: That is exactly it.