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Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will interrupt for a moment because Ms Ward got straight to the point there. We have seen this before. We have had pilots that did this sort of work very early and then there was a long-term intervention. A point person would notice all of this stuff and make sure that all the agencies are involved. That is the bit that is missing.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes, that is the catch. I suppose an intervention team is then needed rather than a pile of talking heads.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is the exactly the answer that I wanted, but that is it; somebody is needed to catch the problem and then we make sure the intervention is there, that it is significant and long term. That could mean many cases then do not require Tusla's intervention, and, in some cases, when it is already far too late and the damage is done. Did the Vienna model go beyond better planning,...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will come back in a while. I suppose the play piece is about involvement and integration, particularly when it gets to sport and everything is useful. It is about ensuring that a child is not left out of society. Again, it brings a child into something positive and makes connections with others and all the rest of it. It is about supports with regard to delivering that.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am sorry to interrupt. Dublin City Council facilitates this in some places. It can be done.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is an idea that on some level Tusla might be better served, and forget the rights and wrongs and failings of Tusla at the minute, if there were two separate organisations as in a part that would be involved in interventions and whatever and then a second piece that deals with the disaster situation where somebody has to be taken into care. Sometimes there is then an issue where people...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It was said to me that on some level it would make sense to separate out. Parents can have a fear and we do not want them to be worried about intervention or to fear that these people will eventually take their kids.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: On some level, it is more the branding idea and dealing with that issue. However, it is an issue. I go back to the question of what a whole-of-government response looks like in a perfect world.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is about emergency cases where we have failed to deal with them at an earlier stage. I accept we need many more foster carers. I have questions. I understand the resource issues and the position of Tusla, but the nuclear intervention is sometimes required.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is why early intervention and connection, and maintaining that, are important. They mean one catches those things and works with families, which leads to a scenario whereby children become involved in education and then employment and a proper life which breaks a cycle of dysfunction, poverty and all the rest. The public childcare model goes without saying and fits into the DEIS-plus...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: From Healthy Ireland or whoever else.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Will the representatives come back to us on the proposal? Have they had any interaction with the Government on it? We keep talking about this unit being set up. I imagine, if people are dealing with child poverty-----

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes. Has the Children's Rights Alliance dealt with that idea of specialist help? What was the interaction like in that regard?

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is the problem. Even if everything is put in, the pay-off will not be for ten or 15 years. It is sometimes about what does not happen.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The importance and impact of housing and homelessness was referenced. We all get the idea of more resources being given to people. The fewer resources, the worse the decisions we make and the worse the decisions we can make. I assume it would be worthwhile to look at taking those in and-----

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We could make an executive decision here.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is about actually making it happen. It is all well and good to have really good discussions. The witnesses have plainly put the idea of a specialist health nurse. I am not wrong in saying that a specialist nurse would be a triggering mechanism for a full intervention. We have not seen that go anywhere next or near to a proposal yet. The Children's Rights Alliance obviously does have a...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: A trigger.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Regional Development (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement there has been with his Department, State agencies and Department counterparts in the North, on the issues impacting cross border employment and enterprise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32380/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Sector Pensions (19 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to detail the interaction there has been between his Department’s secretary-general and the counterpart in the Department of Defence regarding a person (details supplied) who was denied the transfer of a Defence Forces’ pension that was given to his late wife following the death of their son while on UN duty...