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- Seanad: Welfare and Safety of Workers in the Public Health Service: Motion (22 Feb 2023)
Eugene Murphy: I ask that the Minister would not -----
- Seanad: Welfare and Safety of Workers in the Public Health Service: Motion (22 Feb 2023)
Eugene Murphy: Minister. Sorry -----
- Seanad: Welfare and Safety of Workers in the Public Health Service: Motion (22 Feb 2023)
Eugene Murphy: Minister, I am chairing. Sit down, Senator.
- Seanad: Welfare and Safety of Workers in the Public Health Service: Motion (22 Feb 2023)
Eugene Murphy: No, I will not give a point of order. Minister -----
- Seanad: Welfare and Safety of Workers in the Public Health Service: Motion (22 Feb 2023)
Eugene Murphy: Minister, please.
- Seanad: Welfare and Safety of Workers in the Public Health Service: Motion (22 Feb 2023)
Eugene Murphy: I would prefer if the Minister did not use the word "liar" about anybody. I would prefer if he did not use it. I do not think he should have used it but I am not allowing this debate to go any further.
- Seanad: Welfare and Safety of Workers in the Public Health Service: Motion (22 Feb 2023)
Eugene Murphy: We will suspend as the Minister has to go and vote. He has offered to come back and give a full response to the debate with the agreement of the House.
- Seanad: Welfare and Safety of Workers in the Public Health Service: Motion (22 Feb 2023)
Eugene Murphy: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Welfare and Safety of Workers in the Public Health Service: Motion (22 Feb 2023)
Eugene Murphy: I thank the Minister very much for that comprehensive reply. I compliment Senator Hoey and her colleagues for bringing forward this important motion. I also thank all the Senators who contributed to this debate. We all fully support it. I call Senator Hoey to sum up.
- Seanad: Welfare and Safety of Workers in the Public Health Service: Motion (22 Feb 2023)
Eugene Murphy: When is it proposed to sit again?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Feb 2023)
Eugene Murphy: I want to raise an issue I have spoken about before. It is the national primary route, the N5, and the Dublin to Westport route and particularly the bypass between Ballaghaderreen and Scramoge, which has been a danger to the public for many years. Industry also has been complaining that when transporting goods from the west to the east to the ports, a lot of material in trucks gets damaged....
- Committee on Public Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Feb 2023)
Eugene Murphy: My apologies for not being able to attend in person. I am dealing with something else in my office. I thank Mr. Deering for his presentation. Because I was dealing with something else here I did not pick up on every point that was made in the presentation. Is it correct that the largest number of complaints were against local authorities?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Feb 2023)
Eugene Murphy: Are those complaints mostly to do with housing? Mr. Deering may have clarified this previously
- Committee on Public Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Feb 2023)
Eugene Murphy: I missed the figure given for complaints against the HSE. What was that figure?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Feb 2023)
Eugene Murphy: Was Mr. Deering surprised by that figure or did he think it would be higher?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Feb 2023)
Eugene Murphy: On the breakdown of those complaints to the HSE, did they all relate to the system or were they more to do with delays or waiting lists? Was there any area that Mr. Deering noticed when they got complaints that were more difficult than others? Were a lot of them do with waiting lists?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Feb 2023)
Eugene Murphy: That is something that could be resolved where it is an issue of communications. This could probably reduce a lot of those complaints. Did Mr. Deering give a figure regarding legal practices? Do they get many complaints about legal practices?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Feb 2023)
Eugene Murphy: Is it the case, therefore, that the Office of the Ombudsman does not get many?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Feb 2023)
Eugene Murphy: I am not surprised about the Department of Foreign Affairs because of the issues we had with passports. That is fair enough. How many relate to the marine? Did Mr. Deering say there were 77?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Feb 2023)
Eugene Murphy: That is still pretty low.