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Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: This does not relate to projects but to the actual roads maintenance and roads improvement.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: Is Mr. Walsh saying that the assessment is not carried out per kilometre or length but is based on the condition?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: We actually have the third worst roads in the country.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: I would appreciate it if Mr. Walsh would look into that because according to our director of services, we have a huge deficit. We certainly have a huge problem when it comes to the lack of funding. We are told that County Wexford received the same funding per kilometre as counties that have very good roads which and do not have the same number of kilometres of road as Wexford.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: I would appreciate if Mr. Walsh could write to the committee setting out how that assessment is carried out.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: 7. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department plans to increase the level of income disregard for the carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5454/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: 8. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has given consideration to the disregard of means testing for the carer’s allowance payment; if such considerations have been discussed with other relevant Departments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5458/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (3 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: 57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to roll out the hot schools meals programme to include every school in the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5457/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (3 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: 79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the provisions that her Department is taking to develop an individualised pension solution for family carers to ensure they have adequate income once they reach retirement age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5455/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the provisions her Department is taking in recognising long Covid as a debilitating illness; if consideration has been given to a long-term enhanced Covid illness or Covid disability payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5456/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Third Level Education (8 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: 833. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department informed third-level education providers of forestry in Ireland that their graduates are not capable of completing habitat surveys on existing forest sites and on sites proposed for afforestation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6546/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (8 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: 834. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of staff with forestry qualifications and the number of staff including contracted in personnel with ecology qualifications in 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6547/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (9 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: 39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current status of the exemption provided to farmers to dispose of untreated and uncontaminated green waste such as trees, wood, trimmings, leaves, bushes or similar materials generated by agricultural practices by burning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6841/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (9 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: 49. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status on the recognition of Ukrainian HGV driving licences in Ireland; when an agreement will be signed on to recognise such licences in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6770/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (9 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: 160. To ask the Minister for Health if the establishment of a children disability network team has been completed; the locations of these teams; if such a team is operational in CHO5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6977/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (9 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: 161. To ask the Minister for Health the current wait list for persons under 18 years of age awaiting orthodontal treatment in County Wexford; the number of persons waiting 24, 36 and 48 months and longer, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6978/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (9 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: 162. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons under 18 years of age waiting for speech and language therapy in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6979/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (9 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: 172. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for the installation of a public MRI scanner facility at Wexford General Hospital will be included in the HSE Capital Plan 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7091/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (15 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: 957. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to immediately address the alarming decline of afforestation applications which at present are not sufficient to achieve afforestation climate action commitments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7978/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: In recent times, senior civil and public servants have been mired in controversy. The public purse is being used by those at the most senior level to enhance their own salaries and, in other cases, to advance policy initiatives the Government has not underwritten. We have seen these questionable practices in the appointment of the Secretary General of the Department of Health on an...