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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: 299. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the weekly number of forestry licences issued by his Department is in decline considering the investment in additional ecologists and forest service inspectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28997/21]

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: I thank the witnesses for participating in this meeting. Mr. Doyle and I know each other from our previous lives, mine with the Irish Road Haulage Association and his in the then Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. I fundamentally disagree with his statement that HAP is providing homes. It does not provide homes. Only building houses does that. HAP gives the applicant the means...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: Yes. Recently, representatives from An Bord Pleanála appeared before this committee. Its chairman, Mr. Dave Walsh, informed us that its 2020 legal fees reached €8.5 million. I would have assumed on the basis that fewer houses were built and fewer applications were received that this figure would have been less than that for 2019, but it was actually 60% more. The board is...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: No. I am asking what the Department has done.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: Did Mr. Doyle say a planning court?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: I am sorry, but did I hear Mr. Doyle correctly? Did he say that the Department was considering a planning court?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: Is that what Mr. Doyle said?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: That is not the question I asked. The question I put to Mr. Doyle-----

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: Okay. The Planning Regulator appeared before my group, the Regional Group, recently. He is insisting there are minimum densities contained in the guidelines. He could not tell me where they were but he is insisting they are there. Quite evidently, they are not there, and that is a big factor. Representatives of An Bord Pleanála have appeared before this committee, with its chairman...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: Why not?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: Is Mr. Doyle stating, as Secretary General of the Department dealing with housing, he is now only being made aware of this matter of the difficulty with the regulator and the chairman of An Bord Pleanála, as they have opposing views? The chairman of An Bord Pleanála, Mr. Dave Walsh, agrees with the Minister. If the witness is aware of the circular, the Minister identifies the fact...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: I have a final question for Mr. Doyle.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: Will Mr. Doyle write to the regulator?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: I missed that reply. Will Mr. Doyle be writing to the regulator?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: I thank the witness.

Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Matt Shanahan, who is probably on his way. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward the Bill. I commend Deputy Doherty on all of the work he has done, over many years, in highlighting issues in our insurance industry. He has brought to light many important issues and has been relentless in his efforts to try to deal with them. This Bill would require...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: 386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions she is taking to increase special class capacity in County Wexford for specific learning disability reading for the 2021-2022 academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29090/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: I have stood on the floor 15 times since being elected in as many months to request that a child psychologist be appointed to the child and adolescent mental services in Wexford, in Arden House. I am pleased to say we are at the stage where a letter of offer has been made and that position will be filled by July. I thank the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Butler, and...

Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: Our fishing industry has been on the receiving end of many body blows in the last 50 years. There have been increased regulations, reduced quotas, the opening of our waters to outside competition and many other impacts. In fact, the whole treatment of the fishing industry by this and previous Governments has been a disgrace. We have abdicated all responsibility to the EU. When I or other...

Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: Would it be possible for me to come back in please?