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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (14 Jun 2022)
Verona Murphy: 984. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date decisions on appeals to the DEIS programme will be communicated with schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29551/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 Jun 2022)
Verona Murphy: 985. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date a school (details supplied) will receive a decision on their primary staffing appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29552/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Sector (14 Jun 2022)
Verona Murphy: 1349. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures that have been taken as part of the gambling regulation Bill to control online gambling given its unlicensed status and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30472/22]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Agreements (2 Jun 2022)
Verona Murphy: Is it a priority?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Agreements (2 Jun 2022)
Verona Murphy: It is the significance that it is 13% of a smaller population but, nonetheless, it would not be tolerated.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Agreements (2 Jun 2022)
Verona Murphy: Black lives matter. Disability matters.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Agreements (2 Jun 2022)
Verona Murphy: 11. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has drawn the attention of the Government of the urgency to ratify the optional protocol of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD, which would allow people with disabilities to take a case to the United Nations over violation of their rights; his views on whether...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Agreements (2 Jun 2022)
Verona Murphy: Has the Minister impressed on the Government the urgency of ratifying the optional protocol of the UNCRPD? It would allow people with disabilities to take a case to the UN over violation of their rights. Does the Minister believe that the State needs to progress the adoption of the optional protocol as a matter of urgency?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Agreements (2 Jun 2022)
Verona Murphy: Ireland has come in for much criticism by the UN for its failure to ratify the UNCRPD. Mr. Markus Schefer, a member of the UN Committee on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, said it gives the impression that Ireland is not confident or comfortable enough to open itself up to international scrutiny. He was speaking to the Joint Committee on Disability Matters....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Agreements (2 Jun 2022)
Verona Murphy: Thank you. God bless us. I have so much to say.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Agreements (2 Jun 2022)
Verona Murphy: I am not so sure that we do have to wait. That is what we committed to but we are not alone. There are ten other countries which have not signed up for it. But 13% of Ireland's population have a disability. I am a new Deputy. When I was canvassing these groups they told me they only see politicians every five years, meaning at election time. In 2020, when we actually said that we would...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: I welcome our guests. Mr. Kevin McCarthy provided correspondence to the committee which stated not only that his Department is responsible for providing accommodation and services to Ukrainian refugees but that further significant responsibilities would fall to the Department when specialist community-based disability services were transferred from the Department of Health in 2022. Is there...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: There was not an awful lot of detail there. I understand the process is still in train but I am interested in the details. Will the Department for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth become responsible for the child disability network teams, CDNTs?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: That cannot just transition between Departments. There must have been an awful lot of discussions as to how it will work to ensure nothing relating to children and people using those services falls between two stools, as it were. Has Mr. McCarthy a plan he can share with the committee? Can he outline how the transition will happen? The target date is only a month away.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: How many staff will it take?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: Is that currently the case or will it be the case in the future?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: What kind of vacancies?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: That is what a vacancy is. In what areas do those vacancies arise?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: That is why I am asking. What level of funding will come with this transfer?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: Will that transfer to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth?