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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)
Verona Murphy: I must interrupt Mr. Reid and I will tell him why. There was also worldwide reporting of fraud in this area, with PPE being paid for but not being provided, substandard PPE and PPE that was not PPE. That was reported worldwide. I am very concerned that at no point is Mr. Reid taking on board what we could have learned, should have learned and did not learn. I appreciate he has said he...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)
Verona Murphy: -----of losing in excess of €81 million on something we got no benefit from.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)
Verona Murphy: That is the question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)
Verona Murphy: How many ventilators did we pay for Mr. Reid?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)
Verona Murphy: I am asking how many we paid for.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)
Verona Murphy: I did not. I have not seen-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)
Verona Murphy: I am saying Mr. Reid does not seem to accept there was also worldwide commentary on the fraudulent aspect of what was happening in relation to the supplies.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)
Verona Murphy: Is Mr. Reid then saying we have no capacity-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)
Verona Murphy: -----within our system to deal with something like the pandemic arising and that we had no preparation? As I have asked, is that not the object? Mr. Reid cannot give us a categoric figure but we know in some instances, we spent moreper capitathan many other countries. Should the object of our systems not be that we have the ability, capability and institutional capacity to deal with...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)
Verona Murphy: At least the HSE has learned that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)
Verona Murphy: My question was the same as the last part of Deputy Carthy's question. I am happy.
- Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2021)
Verona Murphy: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this topic for discussion. The issue of hospital waiting lists has, in many cases, been exacerbated by the impact of the Government's response to the Covid pandemic. I have highlighted many times the scandal of curtailing services such as cancer screening as part of the Covid response. I hope big lessons have been learned from those decisions....
- Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)
Verona Murphy: I would like to read into the record an article by Ciaran Fitzgerald that was published yesterday in the Agriland.ie journal: Since 2016 with the UK Brexit vote, Irish agriculture and the Irish economy, have faced a huge challenge of 'economic iceberg' proportions in terms of regional and rural economic impact from the UK’s exit from the single market. A self-imposed...
- Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)
Verona Murphy: I am.
- Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)
Verona Murphy: It may be, but this article defines where we are in relation to climate change.
- Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)
Verona Murphy: I do, absolutely. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I may now go over a little.
- Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)
Verona Murphy: I will go back to the article: So, while the looming carbon budget could totally undermine Irish agriculture sector output in the name of an environmental ideology that views livestock production as equivalent to oil exploration, there is a row in the agri dressing room about sucklers versus dairy beef. A row equivalent to a fight over the deckchairs on the titanic, with the iceberg...
- Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)
Verona Murphy: I thank the Deputy.
- Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)
Verona Murphy: Slippage?
- Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)
Verona Murphy: Now the Deputy is blaming the EU.