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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.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions No. 629 of 11 September 2023 and 287 of 26 September 2023, the total number of school transport applications classed as concessionary applications in County Wexford for the 2023/2024 academic year whereby applications are classed as eligible or concessionary at the application process; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of school transport applications received through the school transport system for County Wexford for the 2023/2024 academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42765/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of concessionary school transport applications declined in County Wexford as of 1 September 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42766/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the additional educational needs class at a school (details supplied); to confirm that an additional educational needs class has been sanctioned for the school; to advise on an opening date for the new class; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42781/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 376. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the status of the review on the domestic wastewater treatment system grant scheme; when the review is expected to be complete; when the review report and revised grant scheme will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42772/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 424. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the considerations her Department is currently making as regards the recognition of long-Covid as an occupational illness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42774/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 569. To ask the Minister for Health what provisions his Department has in place in regard to medical card applicants in County Wexford who are unable to provide a GP acceptance form due to the chronic shortage of GPs, resulting in GP practices operating at full capacity, with the majority unable to accept new patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42159/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 635. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the current status of the application for a new 97-bed ward block at Wexford General Hospital; if the updated public spending code will expedite delivery of the capital project proposal at Wexford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42452/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 647. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of nursing home beds in County Wexford, both public nursing homes and private nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42501/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (3 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: 648. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of beds vacant, as of 26 September 2023, in both public and private nursing homes in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42502/23]