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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Can the Department do that unilaterally every year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Is it only a year's contract and it is rolling?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Earlier on some surprise was expressed at the low uptake of ECCE funding. In the April cohort, it was half the expected uptake. Is this where people would start their child in the ECCE scheme because they came of age in April? What is meant by the three points, January, April and September?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: That is my point. Why did the Department not see that coming?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: No parent would ever start their child for six weeks.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: That is in place now.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: The universal component of the community childcare subvention programme values each child at €1,040 per year. Has the Department any figures to show how many from the cohort of children between six months and three years of age are in that scheme? My understanding is that many crèches, especially in Dublin, did not take on children who were on that scheme.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: What is the total number of children in childcare?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Has this washed out too? Are childcare providers not taking on children from that scheme?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: My next question for Tusla may not be for this committee today but for the children's committee. However, I often hear from constituents that Tusla is called into divorce proceedings when child protection allegations are made against a partner. In such cases, an accusation is made, generally against the father of the child, of some inappropriate behaviour. I know this is a sensitive issue...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: My understanding is that this is a common enough practice. It ends up with Tusla having to protect the child. The next thing the divorce is over. The allegation is proved to be completely untrue. That child often then goes back to the home of the person who made the false accusation. Is it a good idea for the person who made such a terrible accusation to end up with custody of the children?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: I am looking at cases which have come to me. I have Tusla here now so I am raising it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Are those in the renovated refuge?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: That means spaces for up to 36 people.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Are these spaces being counted in Tusla's figures as refuge spaces even though there is a homeless hostel there.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: What happened to the staff?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: It is now HSE but the housing-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: What is the arrangement between Tusla and the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government about paying for it? Did Tusla just hand it to them?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: How does that emerge? I am being serious because it is my area and I have worked very closely with it for years.