Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister's comments about transport and the weekly child care subvention.

The Minister promised action on developing a voluntary safety guidance code for hotel staff. She was to work with the ISPCC to develop this code. Children are using locations where there is no Garda vetting of staff or visitors who are coming and going. Not that long ago there was an assassination in one of the large hotels on the north side where homeless children live.

The Minister also promised to co-ordinate with the Department of Health to provide additional child care support workers to work with the homeless children and to develop care plans. How many of those support workers has the Minister and the Department of Health managed to put in place? She also promised action on supports for children with disabilities as well as action on the particular problem of families fleeing domestic violence.

I note what the Minister has stated about nutirition but the reatlity is that people often depend on McDonald's, Burger King and so on because they have no cooking facilities. This is one of the reasons we need urgent action.

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