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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: I do not agree.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: We have to have Uisce Éireann come before the committee to counteract what might be said about the delays in providing social housing. Often the utility companies are blamed so they will need to be here.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: If not, one will make an excuse over the other.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: We also have to have accountability for the central funding of local authorities. It is a €6 billion fund. We are intent on discussing moving accountability to the Comptroller and Auditor General. This is the premise for the discussion, if the Cathaoirleach recalls.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: If anything comes up, yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: I am not sure whether I may raise an issue relating to this morning's session with RTÉ.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: It is the issue of compellability. Although we have given an option to Mr. Bakhurst and RTÉ with regard to whether they produce the documents, we should move on and make our arrangements while we wait. If there is a satisfactory resolution, that is well and good, but we need to move on with the process for public confidence. We will see what happens in the interim.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: In any case.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: I concur with Deputy McAuliffe or he concurs with me, whichever. I respect what Deputy Dillon is saying but we are already in a scenario where the chair has agreed, in front of the committee, to give us something that RTÉ is withholding and he is going to have a conversation about that, but we do not have time to waste. Our timeline does not allow for all this. We have the Hallowe'en...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: In addition, we do not want people coming in here thinking all they have to do is kick the can down the road and the committee will run out of time.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: We should bear in mind that if the report in respect of the redundancies is finalised, we will probably need to have the representatives of RTÉ back in immediately. That report is expected at the end of October.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Services (10 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 314. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial supports that are available to employers and workplaces to support the employment of persons with a disability, particularly for the provision of lifts in workplaces for employees who are wheelchair bound; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44042/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (10 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 532. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons approved for homecare supports who are currently waiting on delivery of support hours in County Wexford as of 30 September 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43815/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (10 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 533. To ask the Minister for Health the number of current clients approved for additional homecare support hours awaiting allocation of those additional hours in County Wexford as of 30 September 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43816/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (10 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 534. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new persons approved for HSE homecare support hours since 1 January 2023 who are currently awaiting delivery of support hours in County Wexford as of 30 September 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43817/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (10 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 572. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on an appeal in relation to a home care support package (details supplied) as advised by a home care support office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44067/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (11 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 205. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that are being made to introduce peripherally inserted central catheter line clean services as part of oncology services at Wexford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44241/23]

Sustainability of Stability of Services Provided by Section 39 and Section 56 Organisations on behalf of the HSE and Tusla: Statements (12 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: This is my 50th time since being elected to stand here and discuss the disability sector. Section 39 organisations, as the Minister of State is only too well aware, are very close to my heart. I also welcome the service providers and some of their clients who are with them today in the Gallery. The Minister of State has been to the section 39 organisations in my constituency. Wexford...

Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: Out of courtesy to all colleagues, I ask that phones be put on silent, if not switched off. One Deputy in particular knows what I am talking about.

Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: It beggars belief that at a point when we have so many serious road accidents, we have not addressed the RSA. We need to reprimand it. The Minister stated previous to the Minister of State that representatives from the RSA had appeared before the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications. I endorse Deputy Nolan's request that they be brought back before the committee. We are...