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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: Pardon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Minister.

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion, although I do have some sympathy for Fianna Fáil as it has been left with the disastrous housing strategy of the previous Fine Gael Government. We now have a planning policy primarily based around transport and climate change for rural towns where no public transport infrastructure exists. We have a policy that has little regard for the...

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: If it is of use to the Ceann Comhairle, I have an opinion of a senior counsel who says the same thing.

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: It is not a personal attack.

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: I am being very careful. I have spent a lot of time on this. He is actually misleading people and refused to acknowledge that yesterday when the evidence was presented. He has presented a letter to Wexford County Council contrary to what the Minister sent to Wexford County Council and refuses to acknowledge it. I will continue, a Cheann Comhairle, bearing in mind that we have had an...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: I have the same view. We have a good deal of correspondence sent to the SBCI and we are waiting on responses. I am happy to leave it over.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: That was in answer to my query in relation to the defamation claim. I would be quite concerned if the threshold for settling claims is over and above €20,000. We are dealing with the public's money. Can we ask RTÉ how many of these settlements are there, or have been in the last year or two? I asked for figures going back five years, if I am not mistaken. Maybe someone else...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: No, I am fine. I will wait for the further correspondence.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (11 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: 186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 61 of 12 November 2020, the status of and the way the early stage planning has progressed; the proposals presently in place to provide online learner driver theory testing; the expected timeline for proposals for an online service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24192/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artists' Remuneration (11 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: 298. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of a universal basic income pilot scheme endorsed by the Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce in November 2020; the proposed timeline for commencement of the pilot scheme; the proposed criteria for participation in the pilot scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24189/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: 331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will conduct a review on income limit thresholds for social housing supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23912/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (11 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: 324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of judicial reviews of An Bord Pleanála decisions on strategic housing developments that have been taken since the start of the strategic housing development process to date. [23748/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (11 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: 325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of judicial reviews of strategic housing developments that have been taken but conceded to by An Bord Pleanála since the start of the strategic housing development process to date. [23749/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (11 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: 326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of judicial reviews of strategic housing developments that have been taken and successfully defended by An Bord Pleanála since the start of the strategic housing development process to date. [23750/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: 808. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the delays in HSE audiology fitting services in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24190/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (11 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: 869. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has or is being given to the inclusion of bipolar disorder on the long-term illness scheme to allow persons with the disorder free access to medicines to treat the disorder; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24429/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Forestry Sector (11 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: 958. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1107 of 28 April 2021, if feedback has been sought from industry stakeholders as to the reason the 4,300 hectares have not been converted into planting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23872/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Forestry Sector (11 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: 959. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the area of afforestation applied for in each of the past five years; the actual area planted in each of those years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23873/21]

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (6 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: I have three questions for the Minister today. The first relates to persons in category four. We need a clearer outline of how people in this category are to be notified about their vaccination. I am hearing about a lot of complicated scenarios, whereby consultants have told patients it is the responsibility of their GP but the GP has no knowledge and people are getting confused. We do...