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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Jim Daly: Does Ms O'Sullivan or Ms O'Neill wish to add anything?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Jim Daly: Do the witnesses have a view on Deputy Rabbitte's point on telephones in schools?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Jim Daly: It is a seismic change in society that the greatest threat to our children is the mobile phone. God be with the days when we were all afraid of the bogeyman around the corner who we believed would do whatever to us but the biggest threat to children now is carried in our pockets. In terms of this committee, an over-arching body of work is needed to get a whole-of-Government strategy and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Jim Daly: I imagine that parents do not know many of the basic steps in that regard but I hope this committee could take a practical approach to that, in tandem with trying to drive the over-arching objectives the witnesses have set. I do not want to take from what they have said but it is about being more real in that sense. Has the Ombudsman for Children played much of a role in this area? What...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Jim Daly: Fascinating. I thank Ms Long. Do the witnesses wish to make final comments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Jim Daly: I sincerely thank the three witnesses for their time. This meeting is a beginning and not an end, hopefully. It is an issue we, as a committee, will be coming back to. I thank the witnesses for their expertise in giving us a steer on where we should go on the issue. We will keep in touch with them to let them know what we propose to do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Jim Daly: I welcome Mr. Fred McBride, CEO of Tusla, and his colleagues Mr. Jim Gibson, chief operating officer, Mr. Cormack Quinlan, director of policy and strategy, and Ms Tara Downes, legal services. I thank them for coming before the committee today. Before we commence, in accordance with procedure I am required to draw your attention to the fact that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Jim Daly: I thank Mr. McBride for his opening statement and acknowledge the speed with which he responded to the joint committee's invitation to appear. I believe the invitation was issued late on a Friday evening and was accepted first thing on the following Monday morning. I thank Mr. McBride for that without hesitation. As everyone will understand, the reason we invited him to appear before us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Jim Daly: I have to stop the Senator. To be fair, she understands where she is going with that comment but she will understand my interjection. I ask her to broaden her questions out from the particular incident because-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Jim Daly: -----to be fair, I will not allow the witnesses to answer any of them-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Jim Daly: -----so there is no point in asking them. It is the law; it is not my law.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Jim Daly: Can Mr. McBride get back to the Senator in a second?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Jim Daly: Mr. McBride can answer the next question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Jim Daly: Yes, that is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Jim Daly: I might ask Mr. McBride to move on, as I want to allow the other members to ask their questions. I am tying to get through them as quickly as I can.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Jim Daly: Which would obviously examine it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Jim Daly: Can Mr. McBride deal with Deputy Neville's questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Jim Daly: Can Mr. Quinlan address Deputy Neville's outstanding questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Jim Daly: We have the questions, so I am going to move on. Can Mr. Gibson deal with that as briefly as he can? I have to be fair to the other members. I want to move on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Jim Daly: I have two quick questions. Do I get the sense from the presentation today that there is Tusla of the early years and Tusla of the modern years? Is there a legacy issue pertaining to some of the issues which have arisen and which have broken down people's confidence in the organisation? Is there a historical legacy issue from the transfer from the HSE and the setting up of Tusla? Has it...