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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
James Reilly: -----and lack of action-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
James Reilly: The Deputy will obviously pretend that houses can be produced without any resources because it suits his argument. He will pretend that houses can be produced overnight.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
James Reilly: He will ignore the fact that the reason the country is blighted with ghost estates is because of his party's policies, which encouraged developers to build in places nobody wanted to live-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
James Reilly: -----and to build on floodplains where nobody will be able to live-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
James Reilly: I say to look to the positive-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
James Reilly: Not alone that-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
James Reilly: Could I please have a chance to respond, a Cheann Comhairle?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
James Reilly: But I did not get an opportunity because they were shouting-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
James Reilly: I am here to answer the question-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
James Reilly: I must speak to the fact that the Government has put aside €3.8 billion in capital for direct social housing building.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
James Reilly: That is 35,000 units, and there are 75,000 other homes to be supported through local authority initiatives and over 300 projects underway, as we speak, in local authorities around this country to address this issue.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (28 Jan 2016)
James Reilly: A number of child care support programmes are implemented by my Department to assist parents with the cost of child care. These include the early childhood care and education programme, ECCE, the community child care subvention programme, CCS, and the training and employment child care programmes, TEC. This funding is provided through the child care services in which children eligible under...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (28 Jan 2016)
James Reilly: The Deputy will be aware that I am on the Dáil record as being very supportive, in both this and my previous Ministry, of early intervention and prevention, and of identifying children who are at risk and acting early. There are many good examples of programmes operating throughout the country through the ABC programme. I recently visited Sheriff Street, near the financial services...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (28 Jan 2016)
James Reilly: The Cabinet will be very supportive of all of this. We are acutely aware that, in the course of the formulation of the interdepartmental group report and the studies that went with that, much research was done, both nationally and internationally, and I will come to that shortly. With regard to the Darndale-Belcamp integrated child care service specifically, it was established in January...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (28 Jan 2016)
James Reilly: I will just finish the point, if I may.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (28 Jan 2016)
James Reilly: I accept that but I believe this will be of interest to everybody in the House. The fact that early intervention leads to better educational outcomes, more employability and better social skills benefits children directly. However, it also benefits society, a point on which I want to support the Deputy. It leads to less anti-social behaviour, less criminality later in life and it also...
- Other Questions: Social Workers Recruitment (28 Jan 2016)
James Reilly: At the end of December 2015, there were 1,402 whole-time equivalent social workers employed by Tusla. Tusla has been working in recent months to recruit some 239 more social workers to fill existing vacancies, and a number of these have now commenced employment. As the recruitment of social workers progresses, Tusla engages agency social workers to address staff shortages. At the end of...
- Other Questions: Social Workers Recruitment (28 Jan 2016)
James Reilly: I pay tribute to the quality and commitment of our social workers. The attrition rate among social workers here is much lower than in many other jurisdictions, which is testament to their commitment to their clients and their durability. When I visited Empowering People in Care, EPIC, one of the things those children highlighted was the lack of uniformity and consistency. There is nobody...
- Other Questions: Social Workers Recruitment (28 Jan 2016)
James Reilly: I would not disagree with anything the Deputy has said. This problem has been with us for decades and only a few years ago the Health Service Executive, HSE, and the then Minister were not even able to tell us how many children were dying in care. We have moved a long way towards transparency. The audit I asked Tusla to do was particularly important because it gave us an accurate picture...
- Other Questions: Child Protection Services (28 Jan 2016)
James Reilly: I welcome all the young people in the Visitors Gallery who have joined us. In 2015, Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, provided funding of €5.8 million to voluntary organisations offering a range of counselling and support services to children and families, including marriage and relationship counselling, child counselling and bereavement counselling. The funding provided by Tusla...