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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Child and Family Agency (25 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: In effect, it will be a return to prioritising and categorising children as high risk, medium risk and low risk. If the budget is not what Mr. Jeyes expects it to be, children in the medium risk and low risk categories will have to move into the high risk category before they are seen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Child and Family Agency (25 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: The point is the agency knows what its budget was for 2014. What was the actual spend for 2013 to carry out the services? That will give us what the deficit was.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Child and Family Agency (25 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: What was the actual spend in 2013 for the provision of the same services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Child and Family Agency (25 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: It was €633 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Child and Family Agency (25 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: Mr. Jeyes said earlier that the cost of legal services in 2013 was €34 million and the allocated budget for this year was €17 million. What was the cumulative deficit under each section of the carry-over? It should be possible to calculate the cumulative deficit if we know the carry-over for each section. Mr. Jeyes said that he accepts the need for a more multidisciplinary...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Child and Family Agency (25 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: I welcome Mr. Jeyes and his colleagues to this meeting. He spoke about a sustainable budget and the implications of the current budget on the provision of services. Will he confirm for us what the carry-over deficit was when the new agency was established on 1 January this year? In regard to the transfer of staff from the HSE to Tusla, will he confirm that appropriate and necessary staff...

Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (25 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: The Minister was the Minister for Health at the time the new agency was set up and its remit transferred from that Department to Tusla. Is he satisfied the new agency was left carry over a deficit? Surely, the new agency should have started off afresh with a blank sheet. That would have sent a clear signal that we want this agency to work. I accept the issue of legal costs has been...

Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (25 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: It is extremely important to tackle the waste through exorbitant legal fees. I do not accept the Minister will try his best to ascertain the figures involved. They should be readily available and we should know what is being spent by the Department in any given year in any particular area on legal fees. I got them before and I hope the Minister’s office will make them available...

Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (25 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: The Minister should know what was spent, however.

Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (25 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: 14. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a Supplementary Estimate for Tusla, the Child and Family Agency in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35727/14]

Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (25 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: This is somewhat similar to the question I asked earlier. It relates to the provision of a Supplementary Estimate for Tusla, the new Child and Family Agency, in 2014. If the Minister was not able an hour ago to give me a definitive answer on whether a Supplementary Estimate brought would be forward at the end of this year, I doubt he will have his mind made up. All the same, maybe we can...

Other Questions: Preschool Services (25 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: The Department and HSE have statutory responsibility.

Other Questions: Preschool Services (25 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: Sometimes it goes in our favour and sometimes it goes against us.

Other Questions: Child Protection Services (25 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: 11. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action he proposes to take following the Child and Family Agency reporting that over 9,000 instances of abuse or neglect involving children are awaiting a social worker to be assigned to the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35728/14]

Other Questions: Child Protection Services (25 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: This question, which is similar to one of the priority questions I tabled, relates to a report that a social worker has not been assigned to more than 9,000 cases of abuse or neglect involving children. I ask the Minister to make a statement on the matter.

Other Questions: Child Protection Services (25 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: There is no doubt that the shortage of social workers is leaving children in a vulnerable position and placing them at risk. Social workers on the front line inform me that they are at their wits' end and do not see any light at the end of the tunnel. They have spoken of leaving their offices on Friday evenings with bundles of case files. Their role has become one of fighting fires rather...

Other Questions: Child Protection Services (25 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: May I assume from the Minister's reply that there are no vacant social work posts in the Child and Family Agency and the agency has achieved its full staff complement in the area of social work?

Other Questions: Child Protection Services (25 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: I asked the question because I am seeking certainty about this issue. How many positions are vacant? Has a panel been established from which social workers taking maternity leave can be replaced? I understand that professionals are not replaced when they take a career break or maternity leave, as they are entitled to do, or are absent from work due to long-term illness. As a result, the...

Other Questions: Preschool Services (25 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: 8. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children with special needs accessing mainstream preschool education and the plans in place to provide the additional supports required to facilitate children with additional needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35730/14]

Other Questions: Preschool Services (25 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: The question relates to the scenario in which children with special educational needs access preschool education. What plans has the Department put in place to provide additional supports to children with special educational needs?