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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: I accept that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: Regarding the meeting with the HSE on 1 February, I request that there also be a Tusla representative in attendance. I put in a series of parliamentary questions in November asking how expenditure was being outlined for 2024, particularly in respect of the parent supports programme. I have not had any answers. In the context of what I deal with in regard to mental health and child and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: I am happy to do that alternatively.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: Will the Cathaoirleach clarify what is proposed?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: I would rather have the Tusla and HSE representatives in on 8 February than the GSOC representatives. We have far more to lose by letting the issues I mentioned continue and fester. We need to know how the parent support elements of the Sláintecare plan are being rolled out. There are 19 healthy community programmes and we do not know at this stage what funding there will be for them....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: I would like to swap the scheduled meeting with GSOC on 8 February to a later date and bring in Tusla and the HSE as early as possible.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: I understand that. The meeting with GSOC is obviously important but is it as important from a value-for-money perspective as the issue I have raised?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: Sorry, I did not think they were invited. I thought we had the FAI in there and that is why it was in red. I just thought it was not agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: Okay. I thank the Chair.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: 270. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the weekly number of forestry licences issuing remain so low; if there is an indication that 2024 will mirror the patterns observed in 2023; the reasons behind the continuing slow pace in licencing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2167/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: 505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school transport for children with special educational needs will be reinstated for a student (details supplied) currently attending a school who has had no transport supports for the past seven weeks and who is not attending school as a direct result of having no transport supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56704/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: I want to appeal to the Taoiseach's better nature on the means test relating to family carers, carer's allowance and half-rate carer's allowance. Statistics from Family Carers Ireland show that carers save the State €20 billion per annum. We are about to put a referendum to the people that lauds carers, and yet we are means testing 95,000 of them. We do not know what the cost of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: I was not going to bring this up today but I will do so because we are in the year of elections. Today we have announced the wordings for the referendums to take place on 8 March. Particularly in light of the last Leaders' Questions, when someone was accused of being disingenuous, I would like to speak about falsehoods. People want to know what stance our political and party leaders are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Tánaiste. The only question that was asked was whether Fianna Fáil has a policy with regard to its own elected representatives. The Tánaiste did not tell us what that policy is. That is what people want to know. Is there a sanction for Fianna Fáil's elected representatives? The Tánaiste said he was the victim of such a profile and had to go to the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: That was the question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: The specifics-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: I asked what Fianna Fáil's policy was.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: I will not keep the House. I know we are over time. The people of New Ross, my local town, got some very concerning news last week that An Post is going to tender for a contractor for the post office. Their first concern is that it is in the heart of the town and there are eight people employed who have become part of the community over the years. They are very concerned if a contractor...