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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: I presume Mr. Hughes cannot hear me.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: That is fine. I thank Mr. Hughes for his comprehensive answer. It is like anything else in that when it boils down to the legality of it, we do not want to end up with legal fees and battles over stuff that probably is just a lesson learned. I appreciate how busy it was and how quickly it was rolled out. I have a brief question. Is there a set period of time in which the amounts paid to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: It is probably a binary answer if there is no consideration.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: Not to circumvent Dr. Quinn, but Mr. Hughes might want to answer this question. Given our conversation in regard to work permits, while I am not long elected, I have been voicing concerns about work permits since being elected. In Wexford, we are currently experiencing a huge deficit in regard to CAMHS staff recruitment. It took three years to find an applicant to accept the senior child...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: I hope Mr. Hughes can hear me. The specific question I am asking is whether the HSE comes to his Department in regard to recruitment for employment permits from other jurisdictions. Is there collaboration in that vein?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: Thank you.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Work Permits (24 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: 180. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department sought access for employment permits to address the critical shortage of skills as part of the recruitment resolution to delivering home care support services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57700/21]

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward the motion, which I will be supporting. I have had lots of engagement with people in local employment services since these proposed changes were published. It is safe to say the changes have not been met with resounding approval by them. One such email I received recently was from a lady in County Wexford who works at Wexford Local Development,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: 243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 331 of 11 May 2021, if a review of income eligibility for social housing supports has been completed at local authority level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58748/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (30 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: 549. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists who were contracted with the HSE under the dental treatment services scheme who have left the scheme in the past 24 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58475/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (30 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: 618. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing levels within the Wexford child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, services; the vacancies that are available in the Wexford CAMHS services; the vacancies that are currently with the national recruitment services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58751/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (30 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: 762. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposals to integrate organic afforestation into the organic measures in the next CAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58747/21]

Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: I thank Solidarity-People Before Profit for bringing this Bill to the House. When it comes to the Covid-19 response, we as a people wear masks, wash our hands, socially distance and abide by complete lockdowns. We have even paid for €9 meals, endured hotel quarantine, largely taken vaccinations and applied and used vaccine passports, yet we are where we are. We need to look at other...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (2 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: 20. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the communications his Department has had with the Revenue Commissioners regarding the use of the Kilrane State Facility site, Kilrane, County Wexford for the parking of heavy goods vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59672/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the return to 100% capacity on school buses is to remain in place in view of the current Covid-19 situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59673/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: It is important to say to the witnesses that I appreciate Mr. Ó Lionáin's comments on the sports capital grant. It is somewhat disappointing that the announcement timeline is being extended because only last week I called all those I am advocating for to say it would be the end of November. It is very important from a community and social perspective as if there is anything the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: I appreciate that. I am mindful that, given the times we are in, there will be a significant increase in the cost of projects that were the subject of applications that were sent in last March. That is just the building industry in general. The sooner the better, as they say, and it will all be good in the end. Turning to section 7.7 on page 87, I am fascinated and would like an answer...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: To reiterate the Vice Chair's comments, it was most unfortunate. Perhaps a great deal was learned - I do not know - but will there be a review of the structure in comparison with what it had been?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: Turning to Ms Licken's previous appearance before us, a number of recommendations were made. I am conscious that Covid has intervened in all of this, so I am really just asking how everything is going. The Department was to establish a revised set of operational and governance arrangements in respect of its national cultural institutions, NCI, capital investment programme. That was to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: I am sorry, but just in case I run out of time, I have a further question to ask. In any application for capital funding for a large-scale investment project, the Department now requires it to be demonstrated that appropriate project management structures are in place. Has any application been turned down for not meeting this criterion?