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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: Mr. Mulvany made the point that he is disputing some of what I said. I am asking him what he disputes. Does he dispute the use of the word "bizarre"?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I will say this. If the word that caused concern is "bizarre", just to reflect on how I used it, I said it was bizarre. I accept that it is a subjective position. However, I consider it bizarre that a Department would take appeal its own appeals officer's decision in court. That is a bizarre scenario. In that instance, the chief executive is entitled absolutely to have a different view...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I will need to come back in again on a different issue, if I can, Chair.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: My question concerns disability services, particularly respite services. There are anomalies in different areas and even within CHOs, which result in discrimination against some children and their families based on where they live. I have been dealing with a number of people in my constituency of Cavan-Monaghan who are trying to secure respite care for their children. One horrendous case...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: What is the timeframe for that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: There is a need to expand the services-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: There are no respite services at all in County Monaghan, for example, while the service in County Cavan operates for children only every second week. It is not much use expanding the services if the criteria are denying access to the children who need them-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: Time is of the essence. The family I am talking about have been let down on so many fronts, not all within the HSE given the Department of Education and others have some responsibility. This is one area that should be an easy fix to give the families some breathing space to get through the turmoil they are going through, and they are being denied by the criteria that are in place. I...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: 46. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has received the final judge-led report into the allegations made by a group (details supplied); and when he will publish this report. [4695/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (2 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of late applications received for the school transport scheme in relation to the 2022-2023 academic year; the number from County Monaghan; the number of which have been processed and approved; and the number outstanding. [4692/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (2 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for a decision in respect of the application for capital funding, under the additional school accommodation scheme by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4693/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (2 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: 308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when guidelines and funding allocations for the free schoolbook scheme will issue to primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5436/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (2 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: 399. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) will be awarded the pandemic payment bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5421/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (1 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further Parliamentary Question Nos. 233 and 234 of 18 January 2023, if he will direct the Road Safety Authority to ensure that applicants for the driver theory test with special needs, including those who are functionally illiterate, can apply for a reader recorder service by means other than writing to the Driver Theory Test Service;...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (1 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: 73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 233 and 234 of 18 January 2023, the locations of the driver theory test centres at which the reader recorder service is currently available to applicants; the number of applicants who used the service at each centre in each of the years 2018-2022, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (1 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: 74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further Parliamentary Question Nos. 233 and 234 of 18 January 2023, if he will direct the Road Safety Authority to promote and advertise the reader recorder service in order that applicants for the driver theory test with special needs, including those who are functionally illiterate, can be made aware of the service; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (1 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: 75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further Parliamentary Question Nos. 233 and 234 of 18 January 2023, how the reader recorder service available to applicants for the driver theory test with special needs, including those who are functionally illiterate, operates in practice for the user; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4832/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (1 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: 168. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention was drawn to the anomaly within the national childcare scheme where parents who are paying their childcare provider for full-day attendance but who leave their children at the facility for shorter hours are, in the cases whereby the childcare provider uses the NCP app, receiving less subsidy...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: 253. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting additional ten whole-time equivalent midwives for the maternity unit at Cavan General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5022/23]