Results 241-260 of 6,462 for speaker:Verona Murphy

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,...

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

Verona Murphy: Not in Wexford.

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

Verona Murphy: That is because they do not accept the referrals.

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

Verona Murphy: That is why we have to-----

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

Verona Murphy: It is why we have this debate continuously. The Minister of State does not accept what is being told.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (20 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: 219. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will initiate a full review of the medical criteria for a primary medical certificate as set out by the Department regulations; if he considers it reasonable to broaden the criteria to include single arm or hand amputee applicants to the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7757/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (20 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: 294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on an additional school accommodation application that was sanctioned by her Department in February 2022 for a school (details supplied); to explain the delay in progressing the new build and what further timeframe is expected on the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7760/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (20 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: 295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a modular accommodation application for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7761/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: 586. To ask the Minister for Health if kleinfelters syndrome patients have an eligibility to free blood testing specific to their condition through their own GP practices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7758/24]