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Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: Two budgets ago the Government introduced an increase to the pupil-teacher ratio for all schools with four teachers or fewer. This is having a detrimental effect on many schools in rural Ireland and those of minority faiths. This was done in advance of the Department carrying out an independent evaluation on the schools. I understand the Department has had the report for the past 18 months...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (30 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: 92. To ask the Minister for Health the action he and the Health Service Executive will take to assist St. Christopher’s Services to continue providing a safe and quality service to the residents of Morlea House, County Longford, and Marian Avenue, Ballymahon, County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36485/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: 119. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to ensure better co-operation and engagement between primary and community carers and the acute sector regarding services such as home help; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36486/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Expenditure (30 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: 320. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 255 of 12 June 2014 if he will provide in detail the expenses claimed by members of staff attending Health Service Executive child care conferences; his views on the number of staff attending these conferences; and the section of the HSE to which they are affiliated. [36576/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (30 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: 392. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate adequate home help hours in respect of persons (details supplied) in counties Longford and Westmeath. [36832/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (30 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: 397. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford. [36847/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (30 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: 638. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to explain the position regarding jointly funding the purchase of the Motte in Granard, County Longford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36693/14]

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.