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Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (19 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 762. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of recruiting 12 additional adult eating disorder teams. [50573/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (19 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 763. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals which have a TRASNA telemedicine stroke machine installed; if each machine is operational; and the uses in each case for the machine. [50574/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome the witnesses. I always watch out for language in opening statements and some things jumped out at me. I have a different description of some terms. Fiscal transfers, for me, are penalties for not achieving something. Regarding recalculation, NBI has missed its targets. Turning to savings, those came from unspent moneys in programmes that were necessary, but I will be fair and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: The Department might give us a note on that. I am not on that committee so I did not have the benefit of that engagement and with the best will in the world, we cannot cover everything but we are at the Committee of Public Accounts today. The Department might give us a note on what has been recalculated and on what efforts are being made to catch up on the targets. I had big issues-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: -----with this contract but I have no issue with the broadband being rolled out.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I have little time and I have questions I want to ask Mr. Griffin, so I would prefer to get a note on the efforts that are to be made.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: The Department has a regular update meeting with ComReg. Have any issues of concern or issues that are in need of addressing been identified to ComReg and has the Department disclosed any issues to ComReg during those meetings?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I would be happy to get a note on that as well. I have only four minutes left and I have two further areas I want to cover. We know Moneypoint is back online because of the issue with energy at the moment. What impact will the continued burning of fossil fuels have on the purchasing of statistical transfers to meet the obligations under the renewable energy directive? Will there be...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I want to move on to landfill. Mr. Griffin and I have had this conversation before because Kildare is a particular case in point and we have one of the three super dumps or landfills as they are called now and an application was made to An Bord Pleanála for a big expansion. The last time we met or the time before Mr. Griffin told us we were on a knife-edge in where waste is disposed...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Is it the case that, for example, the Ringsend plant is taking a significant amount more or else penalties are paid if it does not reach a certain target? Is that plant taking waste from Munster and Connacht as well as Leinster?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: We know Drehid is but I am asking about the Covanta plant.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: It has to arrive there in bin trucks to be disposed of.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: It does not appear to be the most efficient way of dealing with waste if a load of rubbish is collected in Kerry and driven to Ringsend to be disposed of.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (14 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance if he and or his officials have engaged with lending institutions here in respect of persons that availed of pandemic unemployment payments and as a result were placed in a position that they were required to restructure credit arrangements and as a result had negative credit rating applied to them over the course of 2020 and 2021; and if so, his plans to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of the Child (14 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 143. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding adopting the Optional Protocols to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. [50197/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 185. To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek the necessary finance for the establishment of a designated intestinal failure unit or service in Ireland in order that that the HSE fulfils its ethical and legal responsibility to reduce the unacceptably high rates of complications and mortality among persons with intestinal failure. [50238/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (14 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 208. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reinstate the role of dedicated national lead for mental health in the HSE. [50331/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (14 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 209. To ask the Minister for Health his Department’s plans to engage with the Irish Blood Transfusion Service in respect of introducing an individual risk assessment for all prospective donors to compliment arrangements in place regarding persons that can donate blood in Northern Ireland. [50332/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (14 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 210. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide multi-annual funding to non-statutory mental health service providers that deliver services in line with Sharing the Vision. [50333/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 211. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide additional funding for cancer services and support improvements in the wider health sector. [50334/21]