Results 181-200 of 6,410 for speaker:Verona Murphy

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: No, what is important is that, when care is promised, it is delivered. If it cannot be delivered, that should be said.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: The process is just too slow. As I have said, Tusla's statement from 2020 reflects what Ms Duggan is saying today. I am afraid I see no improvement.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: I will point out to Ms Duggan that the figures I have show that there are 60 fewer from 2021 to 2022.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: Tusla is also down two nurses. Where it comes-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: Last week a disturbing article appeared in our local newspaper regarding South East Technological University, SETU. The article discusses a conversation that took place at a meeting of Wexford County Council between the now retired chief executive and a local councillor, in which it was alleged that SETU and the Department of higher education are dragging their heels. I am a graduate of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Minister. I am glad to hear him reaffirming the endorsement of a new campus for Wexford and the people of Wexford will be very glad to hear it. These allegations made at a public meeting of the county council are not helpful. The article also states that while the CPO process was invoked in January, it was completed in March. Intelligent people will know this was not the case....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: There are 3,500 km of local and regional roads to maintain in County Wexford. We have funding that takes care of 200 km. Back in 1995 and 1996, in one of the first reports on roads, County Wexford was number five, which was worse than anywhere in the country. We came in at number five for the worst roads in the country. In 2022 we actually reached the bottom of the list and we have the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: That is what the report says.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: I will send on the report.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: I will send the report to the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the severe shortage of school places for children with moderate to severe profound general learning disabilities in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8800/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what provisions are being made to accommodate the reported 46 children with moderate to severe profound general learning disabilities who have been unsuccessful in their applications for the 2024/2025 academic year to a special school (details supplied) in Enniscorthy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8801/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: 203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8802/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (27 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: 598. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the HSE changes to financial supports to cancer patients for prosthesis costs and mastectomy bra costs; what engagement his Department had with the HSE as regards these changes; if the Minister will seek an immediate reversal of these changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9209/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (27 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: 524. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting appointments for primary care psychology in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8912/24]

Healthcare Provision in Rural Communities: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Rural Independent Group for tabling this motion. I also pay my sympathies to Deputy Michael Collins on the loss of his nephew. Where to start? The reality is we have a very serious problem within our GP sector and within rural Ireland in general in the provision of healthcare. Our GPs do not feel supported, as we have heard a number of times. I noted the comments of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: State Examinations (21 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: I appreciate that the Minister of State is here to answer on behalf of the Minister for Education. We are approaching the second anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. More than 100,000 refugees fleeing that war have come here, 18,000 of whom are students in our schools. Would it not be an appropriate tribute to say that we recognise their pain, that they have left their friends...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: State Examinations (21 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: I welcome the opportunity to raise the issue of reasonable accommodations for State exams. There are obviously a large number of students who have recently arrived to Ireland. They have rightly been encouraged to engage in our education system. Many of these students fall into the category of learners of English as an additional language, EAL. I think primarily of students from Ukraine,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pensions (21 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has made any progress on allowing researchers at technological universities access to the single pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8116/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: The annual report card by the Children's Rights Alliance was published today. The report shows how the State is continuing to fail on the delivery of children's mental health services. In Wexford, local mental health advocate and parent, Raymond Shannon, has been campaigning for improved mental health services for children in Wexford for years. The Minister of State, Deputy James Browne,...