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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (3 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: 79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the provisions that her Department is taking to develop an individualised pension solution for family carers to ensure they have adequate income once they reach retirement age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5455/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the provisions her Department is taking in recognising long Covid as a debilitating illness; if consideration has been given to a long-term enhanced Covid illness or Covid disability payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5456/22]

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: The continued growth of the higher education sector has led to the need for a dedicated Minister and Department in charge. I supported and welcomed last year the inclusion of apprenticeship courses in the Central Applications Office, CAO, process, which is an important step towards encouraging people into the trades, in line with European norms. There is progress with the technological...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. This is an opportune time to review the entire CAMHS system from top to bottom. I first note that our CAMHS team in Wexford does a remarkable job. It has no control over the deficits in staffing levels and what I am going to say is by no means a criticism of it. In fact, we have excellent staff; we simply do not have enough of them....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: Last night, a motion on providing a hybrid-option leaving certificate for 2022 students was defeated. The Tánaiste will be aware that many students who submitted projects may have already suffered from Covid, been in isolation until 14 January and missed their deadlines. They carry that dilemma with them right through to June. It is fair to say that one more time is what is required....

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: I welcome our guests. I support my colleagues in saying that, from the perspective of school transport and buses, we also have a significant issue in this regard in rural Ireland. Children cannot be delivered to or collected from the bus by their parents. Every year, there seems to be a growing need for a parent who is working to be able to take a child to the school bus. We are having...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: Must that be requested or will it be rolled out to all the operators, such as those operating the Local Link services?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: When is it proposed to do this? We are in a critical situation. Fuel increases have reached levels of 30%, which no business can sustain.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: Okay. I ask Mr. Gaston to update me on that process.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: The transport co-ordination units, TCUs, were set up as far back as 2014. I may be wrong about the date. I consult a great deal with my Local Link co-ordinators in Wexford and Waterford. They tell me the NTA is not listening to a word they are saying, that routes are being decided from an office in Dublin that are not relevant to rural Ireland and that is it. I am relaying a message as a...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: Very quickly, I ask Ms Graham to comment on how many bus stops have been put in since 2019? It was said they would all have been put in by then. How many have been erected in County Wexford?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: No, I am talking about the actual bus stop. The pole that identifies that this is a Local Link service. That is what I am talking about. The bus stop that identifies for the public that there is a service.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: I can answer it. There are none, absolutely none.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: The NTA might not be ignoring it. I only have two minutes, with respect. The NTA might not be ignoring it but nobody is doing much about it-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: It is very slow. It is very slow and the cost-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: The NTA has a budget of €1.2 billion and as I said, the minutiae-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: I appreciate that and I agree with Ms Graham-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: The ambition needs to translate into delivery-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: Actually, it is not.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: The plan is not viable currently. Mr. Gaston has said that the NTA will make recompense but fuel costs have been rising for 12 months-----