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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: From the time that it was first intimated that there would be a ring road in Galway, the project has cost in excess of €20 million. It cost that much for plans and for everybody to have their say but we have nothing except that a defunct organisation called An Bord Pleanála overturned the decision. Last week, I made a speech in the Dáil about regulation and regulation has...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: It is interesting that the Secretary General said that the concerns "will be addressed". An Bord Pleanála has not been disbanded. Every project in the country has been held up whether it is private planning, infrastructural planning and national infrastructure projects. We cannot do anything.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Oh, sacred heart.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: I will not curse but I am frustrated. I only seek an answer on what is the Department's function in advising on how we should deal with the wastage of each and every one of these regulators, State bodies or whatever one likes to call them. What is the Secretary General's function in advising the Government? Is there a point in time when he says enough is enough? The State Claims Agency...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: So the money goes into black holes and legal fees.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: What does the Secretary General mean by saying that? We did not have a planning regulator until 2018 and all that he has done since he was put in situis cause problems and we have no housing as a matter of fact.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: I still have not heard an answer to my question.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: No. What is the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's function, in that it cost us €50 million a year to operate and the money that it may save has been stated to be €500 million a year but that has been whittled to just half? I could go on, because my speech only lasted three minutes. If I were to name every regulator then we would probably be looking at well in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Let us consider the banking regulator and the banking fiasco. Did the Department learn anything from the banking fiasco and regulator? Has the Department anything to say after all of these instances? It is like the Department is arriving breathless to the scene of the accident when everything has occurred and nobody foresaw what was happening, even though we have all of these regulators....

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: I thought the regulator was the overseer, which effectively made the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform the regulator of the finances for all of the other Departments but clearly-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Is this the item we discussed before Deputy Catherine Murphy left?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Yes. Is this not part of it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: May we hold it over until she returns?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: I agree we need more information because what we have is very scant.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: This week, the strategic workforce advisory group published its report for the carers sector. It recommends that carers be added to the eligible group for work permits. The recommendation is that 1,000 work permits be issued. I imagine that strategic group is working across all sectors. We should at least try to find out if that is the case.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: 177. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department will publish the disability capacity review action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50739/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Windmill Therapeutic and Training Unit, a section 39 service, provides much-needed day services to 59 users across three sites in Wexford town. Windmill has requested immediate additional funds. This week I want to acknowledge that it has received a commitment of €75,000. However, this falls more than €200,000 short of the required funds. It wrote to all its service users...

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Next is the Independent Group. Deputy Joan Collins is sharing time with Deputy Connolly.

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: We move to the Rural Independent Group. I call Deputy Mattie McGrath.

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Thank you, Deputy. Next is Deputy Sherlock.