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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: When was that to happen?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: One second now.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Never mind the legislation. We have people in limbo. This is an 11-year-old child whose mother, brother and sister are in danger. The child is only 11. Everybody has washed their hands of this child. His placement has been certified as an actual residential provision placement, but there is no residential provision. That is why I am asking. The Department had €95 million and it...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: No. I will tell Mr. McCarthy what we are talking about. Let me cite to him figures from a document I have here. It relates to CDNT services in County Wexford. It states that there are two whole-time equivalent physiotherapist, three whole-time equivalent occupational therapist, OT, four speech and language therapists and four whole-time equivalent psychologist vacancies. It states that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: There are issues. Those are the issues.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Children are in crisis because of this.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: I am beginning to think that the country has been taken over by refugee and Ukrainian issues and that everything else has been neglected because the answers are not forthcoming today. It seems the whole issue surrounding the Ukrainian debacle and-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: -----the unfortunate refugees has been mishandled to the nth degree. What we have heard is unbelievable, and the witnesses have avoided answering questions. If we had got the answers, I would hate to think where we would be.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: There is no point, Chair.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Mr. McCarthy can go explain it to the 11-year-old's mother, who cannot-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: -----stir outside of her house and whose family cannot come into her house because the child is a danger to himself and others. Mr. McCarthy can go explain it because I am no longer able to do so. I am blue in the face dealing with people-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: -----who are on big salaries but who have no answers.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: It was July.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Is this a union issue or something? What is it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: But it does not bother the Department at all when it spends €91 million on non-compliant procurement.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: There is quite a big gap between 2020 and 2021 regarding the liability, in the notes, from €287,000 up to €401,000.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: People's expectation to own their own home is now for many only a pipe dream. Why is that, if the economy was never stronger and employment levels are so high? NAMA is part of the answer. It was initially sold to the public as a system that would save the housing market by warehousing loans, but instead this changed midstream and those loans were sold to vulture funds, resulting in the...

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Thank you, Deputy.

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: The Deputy should wait for the response from the Minister.

Visit of Czech Delegation (26 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: I ask Members to join me in welcoming the Czech delegation in the Distinguished Visitors Gallery, led by Mr. Stanislav Blaha and accompanied by the Czech ambassador, H.E. Mr. Petr Kynštetr. Céad míle fáilte to all our visitors. I hope their visit to Ireland will be enjoyable and productive.