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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 376. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the status of the review on the domestic wastewater treatment system grant scheme; when the review is expected to be complete; when the review report and revised grant scheme will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42772/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 424. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the considerations her Department is currently making as regards the recognition of long-Covid as an occupational illness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42774/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 569. To ask the Minister for Health what provisions his Department has in place in regard to medical card applicants in County Wexford who are unable to provide a GP acceptance form due to the chronic shortage of GPs, resulting in GP practices operating at full capacity, with the majority unable to accept new patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42159/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 635. 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; if the updated public spending code will expedite delivery of the capital project proposal at Wexford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42452/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 647. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of nursing home beds in County Wexford, both public nursing homes and private nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42501/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 648. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of beds vacant, as of 26 September 2023, in both public and private nursing homes in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42502/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 649. To ask the Minister for Health the current total number of persons waiting for a nursing home placement in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42503/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 650. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of persons in a medical setting who are awaiting a nursing home placement in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42504/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 701. To ask the Minister for Health if he can advise on a response to the representation to his office (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42771/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 702. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the health sector's special scheme for front-line workers who contracted Covid-19 and who have been unable to work due to ongoing health issues associated with Covid-19; when the scheme is expected to come to an end; if the scheme will be extended beyond the current expected end date; if he will outline, in the absence of an extension...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 703. To ask the Minister for Health if he can advise on a response to a representation (details supplied) recently made to his office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42783/23]

An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: Let us go back to where this all started. The confidence the Minister expressed in the Commissioner may be somewhat misguided but that will be determined by her. Go back to 2018. The Commissioner, Drew Harris, decided he did not need 800 recruits a year. He said he would do with 600, going against what was Government policy and the Department. It was endorsed and signed off by the then...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: I would like to mention the fact that Mr. Gloster came to Wexford and visited those facilities. This coming funding has been announced as granted this morning, and I refer in particular to the school leavers programme for Cumas New Ross, which should keep people out of the day service and move them on to a brighter future. To follow on from what my colleague said, the reason I asked Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: Mr. Gloster knows how important section 39 organisations are. He knows the nature of what they do-----

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: Not just their funding but equally the pressures around the care at home for somebody with a brain injury. The cost of having them in a facility is exponential in comparison but the truth is that if we supported the individual to stay at home it is half the price. We are, however, not getting that type of assistance. It is not forthcoming.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: I am conscious of the clock but I can come back in on it. I appreciate Mr. Gloster's point and that is where I am coming from. I live in the area in the county with greatest concentration of section 39 organisations. I understand the age group we are talking about and particularly the parents of those individual service users. Again it comes back to services. During the summer an...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: Can I just clarify that it is 20% and we are still at a deficit of €20 million from what it was back 12 years ago? It was €80 million and we are only at €60 million now. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: So it was increased by 20%, which means the deficit is less but we are still €20 million short of where it was ten years ago.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: This is the same argument whereby barristers are on strike who are working off rates they were getting in 2009. Dentists cannot do it either.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: It must be about engagement. It has to be engagement. There is a solution. I understand that the system needs to change. The HSE wants to bring in schoolchildren to it-----