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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (24 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: 413. To ask the Minister for Health when it is proposed that a public MRI scanner facility at Wexford General Hospital will be included in the HSE Service Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26333/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (24 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: 414. To ask the Minister for Health the specific timeline on the installation of a public MRI scanner facility at Wexford General Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26334/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: 415. To ask the Minister for Health the proposals in place for administration of the Covid-19 vaccine for persons not registered with a general practitioner due to the shortfall of general practitioner capacity and who cannot register for the Covid-19 vaccine due to the requirement to provide general practitioner details; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26335/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (24 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: 416. To ask the Minister for Health the specific provisions in place in County Wexford for private patients of retiring general practitioners who are unable to access alternative registration with general practitioner services due to the chronic lack of general practitioner capacity in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26336/21]

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: I am glad to speak on this Bill. It has many good elements but we all know what the real issue is with rental properties. For the first time in the history of the State, 80% of serviced zoned lands in Wexford and many other rural constituencies are to be effectively dezoned. It makes no sense. It will drive up the price of land, increase the cost of housing and magnify the current housing...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (23 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. I am heartened to hear what she said because this is an urgent matter. She will have noted from the email I received from one of my constituents, which I read into the record, that this man is in his 70s and had been working. He received his over 70s medical card but it is of no benefit if he is unable to get an appointment. I heard what the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (23 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity to bring this issue to the attention of the House and the Minister of State. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, for stepping in on behalf of the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, whose area this is. The dental treatment services scheme, DTSS, provides access to dental treatment for adult medical card holders aged...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: I concur with Deputy Munster on that point. I am unsure as to what date An Bord Pleanála appeared before the committee but it was probably a month ago. It has come to my attention that in asking An Bord Pleanála officials what they had learned from all of the judicial reviews that had been taken against their decisions, we find that 16 cases that were not been granted permission...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: No, Chairman, I do not but I concur with Deputy Hourigan on that point.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: I would like the committee to ask An Bord Pleanála if it has complied with procedural issues in relation to the public consultation application of decisions and that prior to their being made that they have been publicised and that they were publicised subsequently to prevent judicial review being such an easy recourse.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: Absolutely. This is a matter of extreme urgency. A lot of people are being put to the pin of their collar because we have such a lack of competition within the banking sector. I very much lend my support to that motion.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: I propose that the committee would support the motion.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (22 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: 190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the arrangements his Department is putting in place to facilitate driver theory tests in County Wexford; when a facility for theory tests will be up and running in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33264/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: 574. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons in County Wexford are being asked to travel to Greystones, County Wicklow for their Covid-19 vaccinations in view of the fact there is a Covid vaccination centre in Enniscorthy, County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25675/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (22 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: 620. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a maximum of 5% of farmer participants in GLAS afforested their land under the afforestation grant and premium scheme during the duration of GLAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32901/21]

Fisheries and Coastal Communities: Statements (17 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: The Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, is one of a number of quangos responsible for the operation and regulation of our fishing industry. Based on what I have seen and heard in recent weeks, it may possibly be the most inaccurately named quango ever formed in this State. From its name, one would think that its main aim was to protect the fishing industry, but if one was to describe...

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. What has been the impact on the university's subsidiary companies that run the on-campus student accommodation from the reimbursement to students who in the end could not take up their accommodation due to Covid?

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Jun 2021)

Verona Murphy: Does Professor Mey have the figure to hand?