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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: I am conscious we only have seven or eight minutes left so I ask members to take the last two sections together. I ask the Minister to comment on an issue we discussed earlier this morning with Barnardos relating to the pre-legislative scrutiny of the guardian ad litemBill. The cost of the guardian ad litemsystem has attracted much negative media comment recently. In my 12 years in public...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: It is something we will return to with the Minister on 5 April. It is a factor. I am sorry to rush members but we really need to get out by noon.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: Is there potential for more money?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: I thank the Minister and members. I always make the point that I do not like having to rush and close down debate or questions. If there are any questions that members did not get a chance to ask, feel free to e-mail the secretariat and we will send them to the Minister.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: We can guarantee an answer. I thank the Minister and her officials for answering the questions and being so helpful. It is much appreciated.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Message to Dáil (8 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs has considered the following Revised Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2017: Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs.

Topical Issue Debate: Cancer Services Provision (21 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, as ucht an deis a thabhairt dom labhairt ar an ábhar tábhachtach seo anocht. I thank you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, for the opportunity to raise this important issue on the floor of the Dáil. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy McEntee, for coming in to take this Topical Issues debate. I can say with confidence that,...

Topical Issue Debate: Cancer Services Provision (21 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: I thank the Minister of State for her reply and the HSE for the prompt response today. "Cancellation" is a word which the HSE can state definitively does not apply, but I understand that one cannot cancel radiotherapy treatment as such. It must continue albeit it can be delayed for a day or two. However, it cannot be cancelled. We may be mixing up words or perhaps it was not the best word...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Registration Authority Administration (21 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: 144. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details of an IT fault at the Dublin offices of the Property Registration Authority; when the fault was first detected; when the fault is likely to be repaired; the number of applications that have been delayed processing as a result of the fault; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13584/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: International Students (21 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: 282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 7 March 2017, the regulations and guidelines in place for teenage international students arriving here that live with a host family and attend secondary schools for an academic term or complete school year without the presence of their parents or legal guardians within the State; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (21 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: 367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has a policy regarding the use of sports halls as classrooms in schools; if officials in the building unit have been advising principals to use the sports halls as classrooms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13782/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: I thank the contributors for making their time available and bringing their expertise and experience to help guide us in our deliberations. I always quote Ruairí Quinn: "Our job is to legislate." We have to take advice from the various interests, vested and otherwise, and then we have to do the right thing. There are a couple of issues I would like to address with regard to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: The National Parents Council did not give any view on the ombudsman. Does Mr. Rolston have a view?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Scouting Ireland: Discussion (22 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: On behalf of the joint committee I welcome John Lawlor, chief executive, Scouting Ireland, and his colleagues. Thank you for appearing before the committee today. In accordance with procedure, I am required to draw your to the fact that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009 witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the committee....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Scouting Ireland: Discussion (22 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: I thank Mr. Lawlor and each of the contributors, particularly the two members who delivered the two powerful final speeches.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Scouting Ireland: Discussion (22 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: There are a lot of questions there so we might go back to the witnesses before we move to Deputy Neville.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Scouting Ireland: Discussion (22 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: What annual funding do the scouts receive from the Exchequer? We know the movement wants more money but Mr. Lawlor might put that in the context of the annual funding it receives from the State, if any. Where does it come from and where do Mr. Lawlor wish to see it going? The objective of this meeting is to highlight the work the scouts do, create awareness of it, recognise the State's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Scouting Ireland: Discussion (22 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: By way of concluding comments, what message would Ms Keegan and Mr. Moran give to young people who are thinking of joining the scouts? I would like to end with a word of encouragement. We have a large young viewership, but we could promote scouting on social media. We are big at this time of the morning on live television. I do not wish to put the representatives on the spot, but they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Scouting Ireland: Discussion (22 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: Could we dare say it is more powerful than any social media network?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Scouting Ireland: Discussion (22 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: That is the message. Excellent. Well done.