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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Regulation (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: What are the Minister's and the Department's plans to address the concerns about conditions for professionals working in the early childhood care and education sector? Many concerns have been raised in the sector concerning increasing regulation and extra requirements for qualifications and training without any provision for increased capitation or support from the Department. This sector...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: The question is about the cost of child care.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: I thought the whole purpose of having a new Department of Children and Youth Affairs was to co-ordinate all this. The Minister has had four years in office and I remind him of what the Government has done in those four years regarding the cost of child care. It has reduced child benefit, taxed maternity benefit and reduced the capitation rates that are paid to the child care providers. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: If this Government was serious about dealing with this issue it would have used budget 2015 to deal with it, instead of announcing two weeks after that budget came into effect that it was going to establish yet another committee to look into a problem we already know is there.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: We all support quality child care provision and no one is questioning that. Anybody who is in receipt of State support should be fully tax-compliant and should meet the standards set out by the Department. That is fact and taken as a given. What we saw last week, however, was more spin by this Government, aided and abetted by the Irish Independent as it is so capable of doing in recent...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: 106. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide the details of his proposed child care plan; the way it will make child care more affordable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2371/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: Last week’s front page of the Irish Independenthad a story following a leak from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs that the Government would introduce tax credits to help families crippled by the costs of child care. Subsequently, we learned this was in fact not the case and that, instead, the Government was bringing forward a plan in this regard. Will the Minister inform...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Strategy Publication (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: 117. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the early years strategy, originally promised for 2012, will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2203/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse Prevention (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: 128. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the role his Department is playing in combatting online child grooming, cyber bullying and abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2205/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: 133. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of his proposed child care plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2202/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: 137. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on a Health Information and Quality Authority report indicating that children at a care centre in the southern region routinely engage in illegal drug use and criminal activity during frequent absences from the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2206/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: 529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she is taking to ensure retired and unqualified teachers are not hired as substitute teachers ahead of newly qualified teachers. [2566/15]

Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: The nurses and doctors in question have to go home in the evening and think about the manic situation they have left behind. There are political choices to be made here. I ask this Government to follow its commitment by ensuring adequate resources are put in place to provide for a health service of which we can be proud, and which serves the men and women of our country.

Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: Would Deputy Bannon talk to the Minister and ask him?

Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: The Deputy is the man. He is the politician.

Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this critical issue today. Last week, 601 people lay on hospital trolleys. That is a new record. 2 o’clock I know the Minister of State's colleague - the senior Minister - does not do constituency tours. Something tells me that will change in the future. He was invited to visit the regional hospital in Mullingar last week by a local Fine...

Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: The Government has been there for four years and did nothing about it.

Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: How many years has the Government been in office?

Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: They are overworked.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foreign Adoptions (15 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: 160. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress in relation to negotiations between the Irish and Russian Governments to agree a bilateral agreement on adoption between the two countries; when such an agreement will be reached; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1922/15]