Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs
Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage
6:45 pm
Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
The point those is that these are inter-agency, because they are outside the Child and Family Agency. Deputy Ó Caoláin's amendment implies that it would apply within the agency. "Inter-agency" captures the ongoing relationship with the public health nurses. The intention of the amendment is that intra-agency co-operation will exist, for example, in what was formerly the Family Support Agency and the Education Welfare Board. The goal of the agency is the integration of those services, so "intra-agency" is the wrong concept to apply.
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