Results 481-500 of 1,026,059 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Verona Murphy OR speaker:Darragh O'Brien)
- 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: Some of those families have not applied on the basis that they are not entitled to the ticket because they are not going to the school that is nearest to them. The latest review says that we will do away with all that. The latest review states that, contrary to the accounts that show the figure of €339 million, Bus Éireann’s transport costs must have increased by...
- 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 Ms Conduit referring to the figure of €339 million?
- 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: There is, therefore, an increase of €100 million to date. Is that correct?
- 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 actually, you are not. In Wexford, the figures do not show that.
- 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 because we are catering for the Ukrainian population.
- 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: Almost all of them are. We have already thrashed this through parliamentary questions. It is almost all for the Ukrainian population. Therefore, there is in fact no increase. Ms Conduit is dead right, though. When it came to catering for the population that came from war-torn countries, buses were laid on with no issue. I accept that. There is a huge issue, as Ms Conduit will well...
- 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 do not mind, as long as there is an answer.
- 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 not the answer.
- 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.