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- Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: Deputy Wallace, without interruption.
- Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 7 o’clock Amendment No. 34 arises out of Committee Stage proceedings. Amendments Nos. 34 to 43, inclusive, may be taken together as they are related. Amendments Nos. 35 to 42, inclusive, are physical alternatives to amendment No. 34 and amendment No. 36 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 35.
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: -----has confirmed it will introduce new building regulations. Will the Taoiseach indicate to the House when those new building regulations will be brought forward?
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: Will it be before the summer recess?
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: The children's rights referendum was passed in November 2012. As a consequence of literature published by the Government, there was a Supreme Court challenge which delayed the implementation of the referendum. Almost three years on, will the Taoiseach give a commitment to the House that the necessary adoption legislation promised as a consequence of the referendum to give children in...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: Child poverty has increased from 8% to 12%.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: There are 70,000 children living in poverty.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: We are entitled to answers, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Other Questions: Foreign Adoptions (8 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 9. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update on the current status of negotiations between Russia and Ireland on a bilateral treaty on adoptions. [27335/15]
- Other Questions: Foreign Adoptions (8 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: As the Russian Irish Adoption Group enters its sixth year of lobbying on a bilateral agreement between Ireland and Russia regarding adoption, will the Minister provide an update to the House on the current status of the negotiations between him and his Russian counterpart?
- Other Questions: Foreign Adoptions (8 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: We can all agree that the interests of the children must be paramount; that goes without saying. It remains the case that thousands of children remain in Russia in questionable care who could greatly benefit from a second chance in life. There are certainly hundreds of parents in Ireland who are willing to give a child a second chance in life with a loving home. Everything must be done to...
- Other Questions: Foreign Adoptions (8 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: Not recently.
- Other Questions: Foreign Adoptions (8 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: I am pleased to hear the Minister confirm that this is a priority of his Department and something he will work hard on to ensure it is advanced. When did the Minister last meet representatives of the Russian Irish Adoption Group? If he has no problem with further consultation, will he confirm that he will meet the group, along with the Adoption Authority of Ireland, to hammer out the...
- Other Questions: Foreign Adoptions (8 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: Will the Minister meet the group?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care Education (8 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 10 o’clock The Minister focused his answer on one year, the ECCE programme, but the question was on the whole of the early years programme. Early education should start before the free preschool year, particularly for children with special educational needs. While the programme is welcome, the Minister mentioned a leniency in its application for children with special educational...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care Education (8 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: The Minister is very good at saying it is someone else's fault or that it falls within someone else's remit. He should know, as Minister for Children and Youth Affairs with responsibility for early childhood care and education, how many children under the age of five have special educational needs. The announcement by the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy O'Sullivan, on the increase...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care Education (8 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: The Minister was three years in the Department of Health and he was moved over because he was not doing his job.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care Education (8 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: Listen to the parents.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care Education (8 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 4. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures his Department is taking to improve access to the early education and preschool care for children with delayed development and special educational needs. [27467/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care Education (8 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: The supports the Minister and the Department are putting in place for children with special educational needs to access, and participate in, early education and preschool are scandalous. I would appreciate if he could inform the House what measures the Department, which has been in existence for four and a half years, is putting in place to ensure these children, who need additional...