Results 1-20 of 20 for cork speaker:Verona Murphy

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (7 Mar 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...the condition of the 3,522 km of non-national roads in County Wexford. I will give some background. We have the tenth greatest length of non-national roads in the country, just after counties Cork, Clare, Donegal, Galway, Kerry, Limerick, Mayo, Roscommon and Tipperary. The non-national roads network is broken down into four separate categories: regional roads; local primary roads; local...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (29 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...in primary schools in Laois. Deputy Matt Carthy - To discuss the need for a special needs school in County Monaghan. Deputy Michael Moynihan - To discuss the use of existing CCTV in towns in County Cork. Deputy Dessie Ellis - To discuss GP and other medical services in Finglas. Deputy Michael McNamara - To discuss the impact on primary schools' special education teacher allocation of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: I drove to Cork with somebody's passport because of their issues.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (14 Dec 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...O'Connor - to discuss the timeline for opening of the mother and baby redress scheme and making of payments. David Stanton - to discuss the need for funding to repair roads and bridges in east Cork which were severely damaged by Storm Babet. Colm Burke - to discuss initiating a health technology assessment for an RSV vaccine. The matters raised by Deputies David Stanton and Colm Burke have...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...cost rental. The Department has already said it will see the commencement of 6,000 apartments. That is what it costs. If a person is developing apartments around the towns in the country or in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway, the apartments will cost at least €100,000 more than housing. That is where the €6 billion comes from: 6,000 apartments at €100,000 extra...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Verona Murphy: That is especially the case in Cork. It is ridiculous.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (28 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...Whitmore - to discuss the future accommodation of Blessington Community College. Deputy Chris Andrews - to discuss rising homeless in Dublin. Deputy Thomas Gould - to discuss the delivery of affordable housing in Cork. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan - to discuss the crisis in trolley numbers at University Hospital Limerick. Deputy David Stanton - to discuss the need to tackle littering and...

Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) (Pets) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2022)

Verona Murphy: ...this country. It is devastating for the family. It is a particularly hard time when something like that happens. I wish them well. They will be in my thoughts and prayers, alongside his colleague from Cork who is seriously injured. I wish him a speedy recovery. I thank everybody in the House. It has been a very busy and tough year. I thank the staff and all my colleagues, who...

An Bord Pleanála: Statements (15 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: ...of the law. The advice he has given to the Minister and the Department has also been wrong. This should by now raise alarms bells. I expected action to be taken after the Department's most recent loss against Cork County Council for the second time, which was a complete waste of taxpayers' money. The fact this particular regulator is investigating his former colleagues in An Bord...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: I am sure there was no suggestion they are not trustworthy in Cork. Going back over the figures, it was said that €5 million was spent to date on the UN Security Council seat.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: In Mr. Doyle’s capacity as Accounting Officer and Secretary General, on foot of the "RTÉ Investigates” programme in the context of councils in Cavan, Mayo, Cork, what did he do to deal with those situations? I do not want to hear that most of it was upturned on the basis of auditing. I want to know what has happened since to ensure that it does not happen again. What did...

Short-term Lettings Enforcement Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 May 2022)

Verona Murphy: ...totality seem to have made the overall problem even worse. The latest plan to award developers grants is yet another white-elephant solution. A developer with an apartment where demand is expected, such as Cork city, will receive a grant, yet a developer in Cork county will not. What is the aim of the policy? Is it to stop developers from going out of business? Is it to ensure the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (18 May 2022)

Verona Murphy: 301. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the discussions between primary care south east community healthcare and Cork University Dental Hospital in regard to the service agreement and funding issues which have led to considerable delays in the delivery of maxillofacial services for eligible patients (details supplied); when the issue will be resolved; and if he will make a...

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Verona Murphy: ...for County Wexford. There benefits of the project and the university are worth repeating. The costs for students from Wexford and other south-east counties of having to go to university in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, or further afield is obvious. These costs are often prohibitive. Having a university in the south east may help to alleviate this. Investment in the area is helped by having a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (11 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: Last Friday, a landmark judgment in the case of Cork County Council v. the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, the Attorney General and the Planning Regulator laid bare the rot that exists at the heart of the planning system. I preface my remarks by saying that this is not a criticism of the Office of the Planning Regulator as distinct from the manner in which the current...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: ...planners and this Government deployed a narrative that it was not they who had caused this problem but the NIMBY objectors who took judicial review proceedings. Last Friday in a landmark judgment, Cork County Council v. the Minister, the Attorney General and the Office of the Planning Regulator, OPR, laid bare the rot that exists at the heart of the planning system. The judgment filleted...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (27 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: Yes, and I also looked at the Port of Cork. I know that, up to December, with Brexit pending, there were five members of the Port of Cork board whose vacancies had not been filled.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: ...of Ireland depend on the Government, regardless of when the process began, to negotiate on their behalf to ensure that convergence does not go beyond 75%. Our fishermen are holding a protest in Cork today because this Government and previous Governments have sold them out. There is nothing to be gained for rural Ireland from the way the Government is carrying on. The eco-scheme I spoke...

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: ...concluded the regulator was and is acting ultra vires. I put that to the regulator, from whom I received no response. I am not alone in my view on the regulator's thoughts. Senior counsel for Cork County Council, in judicial review proceedings, described the regulator's recommendation to the Minister as unlawful, flawed, irrational, of no legal effect and without jurisdiction. On the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2021)

Verona Murphy: ...most strategic port. Politicians holding senior political posts in various Governments flooded poorly located ports with millions of euro, all in the interests of political personal gain. Foynes, Cork and Dublin ports have all been beneficiaries of that strategy, to the detriment of Rosslare. Government politicians representing the constituency of Wexford have, for decades, engaged in...