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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: Regarding the meeting with the HSE on 1 February, I request that there also be a Tusla representative in attendance. I put in a series of parliamentary questions in November asking how expenditure was being outlined for 2024, particularly in respect of the parent supports programme. I have not had any answers. In the context of what I deal with in regard to mental health and child and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: I am happy to do that alternatively.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: Will the Cathaoirleach clarify what is proposed?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: I would rather have the Tusla and HSE representatives in on 8 February than the GSOC representatives. We have far more to lose by letting the issues I mentioned continue and fester. We need to know how the parent support elements of the Sláintecare plan are being rolled out. There are 19 healthy community programmes and we do not know at this stage what funding there will be for them....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: I would like to swap the scheduled meeting with GSOC on 8 February to a later date and bring in Tusla and the HSE as early as possible.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: I understand that. The meeting with GSOC is obviously important but is it as important from a value-for-money perspective as the issue I have raised?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: Sorry, I did not think they were invited. I thought we had the FAI in there and that is why it was in red. I just thought it was not agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: Okay. I thank the Chair.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: 270. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the weekly number of forestry licences issuing remain so low; if there is an indication that 2024 will mirror the patterns observed in 2023; the reasons behind the continuing slow pace in licencing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2167/24]

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: Would you allow me the liberty, a Cheann Comhairle, of making a point? I know the Minister of State was not here when I made my contribution but two officials were present. This is very important from the point of view of what we are discussing and housing development. I ask the Minister of State to ensure that the officials of the Department he represents would come back with a written...

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: In early December last year, RTÉ's "Prime Time Investigates" brought attention to the most heinous of crimes. Three building developers provided evidence of a criminal extortion racket. All credit is due to them and the reporter, Barry O'Kelly. The documentary featured covert recordings showing how these criminals, John and Micheál Callaghan, acted as representatives of a number...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: 505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school transport for children with special educational needs will be reinstated for a student (details supplied) currently attending a school who has had no transport supports for the past seven weeks and who is not attending school as a direct result of having no transport supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56704/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (14 Dec 2023)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Minister of State and the Deputy. That is the end of the Dáil session but before we rise I will take the opportunity to wish everybody a very happy holiday and happy Christmas. I thank the staff, the ushers, those on sound or security in general and all of the staff here in the Dáil.

Teachtaireacht ó Roghchoiste - Message from Select Committee (14 Dec 2023)

Verona Murphy: The Select Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands has considered the Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022. In accordance with standing order 178 (3b) it confirms (i) that scrutiny has been completed and reported on, and (ii) it recommends that the Bill may proceed to Second Stage.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (14 Dec 2023)

Verona Murphy: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Jennifer Murnane O'Connor - to discuss the timeline for opening of the mother and baby redress scheme and making of payments. David Stanton - to discuss the need for funding to repair roads and bridges in east Cork which were severely...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Verona Murphy: I have seen in some quarters this referendum being referred to as a referendum on the woman's place in the home and the fact that having such a provision in the Constitution is a backward notion. Of course, that is not what the Constitution states. It states: In particular, the State recognises that by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Verona Murphy: The Constitution currently recognises only the marital family as the family. This referendum is intended to recognise and give constitutional status and protection to families beyond the marital family, including cohabiting couples and one-parent families. The special and unique status of marriage in the Constitution will not be altered by this. In order to do this, the Government proposes...