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- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: Do not waffle with figures. I want answers, please.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: I want answers, respectfully.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: That is the question. I thank the Chair.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: Evidence of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: All right. That is very clear. I thank Ms McNally. Does she understand that the Department of Transport, through the National Driver Licence Service, NDLS, has increased the medical to the age of 75?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: In that case, what she is saying is not credible with regard to the Department. Is it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: No, is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: Is it credible?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: I ask for a binary answer from Ms McNally, please. Is it credible to say that because of medications and because of this, that and the other, the medical age requirement has been increased by five years, yet Bus Éireann still insists on this and the Department is tendering to that company?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: I would have thought the international evidence-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: -----was more important when it came to the medical and road safety aspects.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: They can drive for a private operator, as long as they are not on the school bus run, at 80 years of age and carrying 54 or 55 children.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: It would appear that Ms McNally is more intent on reading than she is on dealing with facts.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: Unfortunately, a significant issue within our Departments is incompetence-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: -----because when you apply the facts Ms McNally is speaking about to the actual facts on the ground, they makes no sense. As the Secretary General, I would have thought Ms McNally would have understood that, because one Department does not know what the other is doing with regard to driving and driver safety.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: Ms McNally's Department is the one that is charged with the school transport system, however. It is causing very significant issues for the working parents and the taxpayers in this country. The buck should stop with you because-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: Well, you are not being proactive in doing anything about it; you are just waffling.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: Waffling. You are waffling.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: Waffling and repeating insignificant facts.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: I could have said worse, Chair.