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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 can imagine. I assume that Covid has hampered matters but that the trial run at least is there. I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (7 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: 457. To ask the Minister for Health the discussions his Department has undertaken with an association (details supplied) to address the rising numbers of dentists resigning from the dental treatment services scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59771/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (7 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: 458. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 29 April 2021, the details of the orthodontic waiting list initiative referenced in the response; the details of the specific timeframe for the delivery of these initiatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59772/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (7 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: 459. To ask the Minister for Health if provision will be made for the establishment of a child and adolescent mental health services or CAMHS-based eating disorder specialist community team in community healthcare organisation or CHO 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59773/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (7 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: 460. To ask the Minister for Health if a whole-time paediatric dietician position, as opposed to a shared position, will be approved and advertised as part of the CAMHS team Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59774/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (7 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: 507. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists in County Wexford 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. [59926/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (7 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: 568. To ask the Minister for Health when antigen test kits will be provided free of charge to front-line homecare supports staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60171/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (8 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Minister of State for coming in this morning. I know she has a very busy portfolio and this is not her domain. Like my colleagues, Deputies Cairns and Christopher O'Sullivan, I will take up the offer to meet the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan. The Enniscorthy flood defence scheme is a project which has been kicked down the road far too many times in the past ten or 15...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (8 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Minister of State. As she will appreciate, most of what she has told me I already know and the people already know. The question that people are asking is as follows. Why is it taking so long? The reality is that 236 properties are affected. All of the stakeholders that were engaged in the discussion, such as Irish Rail and property owners, are all aware. They are all in...

Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion [Private Members] (8 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: I am pleased to support and sponsor today's motion relating to offshore renewable energy. On many occasions in this House, I have mentioned the need to capitalise on opportunities to develop offshore renewable energy. Our motion calls for several things to be prioritised. The first thing is to immediately draft an offshore renewable action plan and to draw up a strategy to ensure that all...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: On 5 October, in this House, the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, stated: "Enabling people with care needs to continue to live independently at home for as long as possible is a priority for the Government." Today, we have 5,000 people waiting for home care support hours. According to private home care providers, 3,000 additional staff will be needed to fill the gap. Carers...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: I ask Taoiseach to please outline a plan.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: I agree, but people cannot access them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: Yesterday, I put a question to the Taoiseach during Questions on Promised Legislation in regard to the plan in place to deal with the chronic shortage of carers available to deliver the home care support service. The scheme was brought in by the Government to ensure that people could stay in their homes with a level of support. Without such supports, they would be likely to end up in a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Tánaiste. I suppose I am asking the Government, the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, who I appreciate is doing her best and a very good job, to ensure that we do not wait until that review is complete to make good on delivery for carers. The Tánaiste was previously Minister for Health. All we are going to achieve, if we do not...

Seafood Taskforce Final Report: Statements (9 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: The issues facing our fishing industry are many. It would be impossible to mention or discuss all the problems that fishermen have raised with me in the context of this report, but I will do my best. Looking at the executive summary of the seafood task force report, a couple of paragraphs jumped out at me. These state that: The Irish seafood sector is, in many ways, ‘in the eye of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (9 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: 362. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether there is an immediate need to increase the second instalment grant on areas already afforested due to real increases in costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61096/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (9 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: 363. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether there is an immediate need to increase grant support across all support schemes for forestry in line with real increases in costs; his position on TAMS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61097/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Work Permits (9 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: 364. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is instructing his officials to make the necessary arrangements with their counterparts in other Departments to enable work permits to be issued to persons from countries outside of the EU as is happening in other industries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61098/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Verona Murphy: Good morning to the witnesses. Some of them will know me from the customs consultative committee in a previous life. I have a specific question, which follows on from Deputy Colm Burke's question. Deputy Burke was asking about second-hand vehicles which were brought in at the start of Brexit, to Southern ports. Those vehicles had to be cleared. Customs requested certain documents to...