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Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: Will that just end up like the case of dentists with consultants no longer working for the HSE and going somewhere else?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: I am not sure the agency staff could be regarded as making savings. As Mr. Mulvany stated, it is more like the HSE did not spend the money.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: On warehousing, for how long has the HSE known that it must get rid of these goods?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: It has been too long, yes. I worked in logistics for years. If someone sends an email asking a question, they will get an answer. How long does it take the HSE to make a decision?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: That is a significant amount of money.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: If it was diverted into any of the services I have spoken about, it would probably solve some of the problems being experienced by 600-odd children. How long-----

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: Everything is money-related. If the HSE cannot recruit staff, it is not paying them enough. Do not be ridiculous. That is something that riles me. Everything is money-related.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: If we are not recruiting staff, we are obviously not offering the terms and conditions we should. In the same vein, it is money-related for the family who cannot afford to do it any other way. I want to ask one further question-----

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: -----about the hacking.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: That is because when people are not paid enough and they leave the service it is very difficult to get them back. I have one important question about the HSE hack. Were the people whose details were hacked identified and notified?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: All of them? Will there be any legal repercussions?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: If there is some, can the committee have a note on it and what the prospective outlay will be?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: I thank Mr. Mulvany.

An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: Let us go back to where this all started. The confidence the Minister expressed in the Commissioner may be somewhat misguided but that will be determined by her. Go back to 2018. The Commissioner, Drew Harris, decided he did not need 800 recruits a year. He said he would do with 600, going against what was Government policy and the Department. It was endorsed and signed off by the then...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (4 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to advise on the process involved in attaining a scribe to support an applicant through the driver CPC case study test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43117/23]

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Deputy. To follow on from my colleague, Deputy Tóibín, we have already debated school transport in this Chamber today. I am afraid it was the Department's failure and that of the lead Minister to plan for such a situation whereby we have eroded and depleted the operators' sustainable and viable operations through poor planning. We no longer have bus operators. For...

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: This is my fourth year as a Deputy and my fourth year debating school transport. As bad as the school transport scheme was, last year's decision to give free seats on school buses to everyone in the audience backfired badly. Private operators were left without any students on their buses and having to charge double to those who were left using them. Ultimately, their mantra now is, "Any...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: Earlier, the Taoiseach said An Bord Pleanála will help to resolve the housing crisis. Let me tell him that An Bord Pleanála is actually making people homeless. Only 27% of its cases in the first eight months of the year were decided within the statutory 18-week period. I refer to one family out of several in a similar situation who appealed a decision of the board in September...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: Only 27% were decided in that timeframe.