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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund (29 Nov 2018)

Alan Farrell: There is no such thing as free money.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2018)

Alan Farrell: Apologies have been received from Deputies Rabbitte and Sherlock. I welcome members and also viewers who may be watching the proceedings of this public session of the Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs on Oireachtas TV. On 21 November 2018, the Dáil ordered that the Supplementary Estimates for Public Services in respect of Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs - be referred...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2018)

Alan Farrell: The Minister will not be surprised to hear that I have no criticisms of additional funding being required in the Department. This is a demand-led service and I am heartened that 13,000 more than expected availed of these measures. That is welcome. I have a small number of queries. The Minister has outlined on numerous occasions the stark level of underinvestment for decades in the...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2018)

Alan Farrell: The Department has been good at advertising some of the new schemes, using bright and eye-catching colours. Is the Department spending enough on advertising the schemes, notwithstanding the fact that 12,800 additional children are participating? We can never do enough to promote the uptake of these schemes.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2018)

Alan Farrell: Significant savings have been made in the youth capital scheme, under subhead B6 - youth services, with €1.665 million saved. There have been time-related savings for certain projects where demand was less than anticipated. When capital moneys are not expended I take an interest, as I did when it happened in the Department of Education and Skills in the past. The infrastructure to...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2018)

Alan Farrell: Has the Minister had the opportunity to review the committee's report on childhood obesity?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2018)

Alan Farrell: It contains a recommendation on the subject of school meals, something the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection is working on. Following the publication of the report, the early childhood sector stated that there was a need for guidelines, or some direction from the Department, over the food types being offered to children in ECCE schemes and other supported community...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2018)

Alan Farrell: Can the Minister envisage this being introduced in the future?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2018)

Alan Farrell: It is important, given the effects unhealthy eating at an early age can have on a child's progression. Has the Minister any closing remarks?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2018)

Alan Farrell: On behalf of the committee, I thank the Minister and her officials for their attendance this afternoon. We have now completed our consideration of the Supplementary Estimate for Vote 40.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Message to Dáil (29 Nov 2018)

Alan Farrell: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil.The Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2018: Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs. Under Standing Order 89(2), the message is deemed to be the report of the committee.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2018)

Alan Farrell: I apologise to Deputy Broughan. I had assumed he was next.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2018)

Alan Farrell: That is fair enough. I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on the Bill. I am as disappointed as my colleagues in Fingal and my constituency that it is taking so long to bring it to the House for debate, but I welcome the opportunity to address some aspects of the Bill. The regulation of noise at Dublin Airport is of utmost importance because there are plans for the second...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (18 Dec 2018)

Alan Farrell: 78. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the role that new hybrid powerpacks for intercity railcars as announced under the climate action fund will have in reducing climate emissions. [53199/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (18 Dec 2018)

Alan Farrell: 108. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to reduce energy use through public lighting, with particular reference to non-LED local authority public lights. [53200/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (18 Dec 2018)

Alan Farrell: Apologies have been received from Senator Freeman. I propose that we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Alan Farrell: I welcome the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, who is accompanied by her officials, Ms Michelle Shannon, director of the Irish Youth Justice Service; Ms Noreen Leahy, principal officer; and Mr. Tony O'Donovan, child welfare officer. I also welcome members and those who may be watching the proceedings on Oireachtas TV. Members are reminded of the long-standing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister. Before I invite Deputy Mitchell to pose questions to the Minister, I wish to ask one or two questions relating to her opening statement. To the Minister's knowledge, did the board of Oberstown approach the reviewers and request that they review their report to ensure that it complied with the terms of reference that were set originally? Did the board request a revised...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Alan Farrell: Did the board ask the reviewers to produce a report in line with the terms of reference provided to the reviewers in the first instance, after this report was provided to Oberstown? Given that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Alan Farrell: Yes, after this document was provided to the board. In other words, did the board go back to the reviewers and say that the report provided was outside the terms of reference and that there were questions around verification of accuracy?