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- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (30 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: It will be in the breakdown. We did not send any socks, did we?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (30 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: If Mr. Conlan is sending us the breakdown of the figures, that is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (30 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: That is grand. To reiterate what I said earlier, this is constructive criticism that I ask Ms Byrne to take on board. It is what we experienced in the office. I suggest, without a shadow of a doubt, that the system to inform people there is an issue with documentation should be done at the uploading stage rather than at the processing stage, where the application may be placed at the back...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)
Verona Murphy: 15. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department has taken over the past 24 months to provide equal opportunity to education for all children with disabilities and additional needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28433/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)
Verona Murphy: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has drawn the attention of the Government to the urgent need fully to enact the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004; her views on whether the failure to do so calls into question the State's commitment to giving a large cohort of the population the opportunities to which they are entitled; and if she will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)
Verona Murphy: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cross-departmental discussions that she has had to improve access to ASD classes for all children needing a school place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28432/22]
- Autism Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2022)
Verona Murphy: The Bill refers to the autism strategy, service delivery and all the various aims of the strategy. There is no doubt that education must form a central part of such a strategy. Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak on special needs education. We are falling short in many areas in that regard. In that speech, I highlighted a discussion I had recently with a parent of a child with...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Jun 2022)
Verona Murphy: 116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the provisions that are in place within the free travel scheme to allow for a travel pass for a minor under 18 years of age whose full-time carer is in receipt of a travel pass; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34688/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Natural Gas Grid (28 Jun 2022)
Verona Murphy: 158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions that the Government is putting in place to increase liquefied natural gas resources here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34284/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Natural Gas Grid (28 Jun 2022)
Verona Murphy: 159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are plans for the construction of a liquefied natural gas strategic storage facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34285/22]
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: Good morning everybody. I missed the meeting the last time the Department was before the committee, unfortunately. Believe it or not, it is ten years since the Mahon tribunal took place. Did Mr. Doyle ever read the 3,000-page report?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: That is fine. One of the findings was that we restore and underpin confidence and transparency in the local government system and according to the then Minister of State, Jan O'Sullivan, that reform was going to be swift and emphatic. The "RTÉ Investigates" programme of March 2022 and the systemic failures uncovered revealed false accounting and employee fraud. Instead of transparency...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: I know what it is but I am asking Mr. Doyle if he agrees that it has immense power - "Yes" or "No".
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: Mr. Doyle has said a number of times today that local authorities are independent in making certain decisions. Does he agree they have immense power?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: Dealing with vast budgets.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: They make all the decisions regarding roads. There are vast numbers of decisions made. In my case, 150,000 people live in Wexford and the local authority deals with them. If Mr. Doyle was employing senior officials at local authority level, would he say that they should be of the highest integrity, trustworthy and honest?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: Does the budget of €6.1 billion in Mr. Doyle’s Department carry significant risk management?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: Yes, it does. So there is a huge obligation on the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: Are all the senior official level employees that have access to or have anything to do with that budget sufficiently vetted by the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Verona Murphy: At local government level.