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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: I thank Professor Kilkelly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: She cannot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: I understand that but if Deputy Clare Daly listens carefully to what I read out at the beginning of every meeting, it is very clear. It is not me, I would love to hear the answer to the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: I ask the Deputy to ask her final question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: To be fair, the board of management of Oberstown spent more than €19,000 between February 2017 and April 2018 on legal advice pertaining to the assessment of the operational review. All that money was expended in the provision of legal advice but, from the questions Deputy Daly has asked, it does not appear that any of it related to the correspondence with Tusla.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: I ask Deputy Clare Daly to conclude.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: Under any other circumstances, I would not have allowed that conversation to have taken place. However, I came to exactly the same conclusion as Deputy Clare Daly, and I believe all members of this committee have done similarly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: I am referring to the identity of individuals. It gives me no pleasure to point that out, but I came to the exact same conclusion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: Deputy Clare Daly can ask another question if she wishes. However, the point has been made and I do not necessarily want to travel down that particular rabbit hole. The report has not been published on foot of legal advice, and we are now delving into it in a manner which I believe is not appropriate for this committee, for the very reasons I outlined at the beginning of the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: I will allow Professor Kilkelly to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: Sorry, we have to conclude.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: I thank Professor Kilkelly for her presentation today and for dealing with the questions posed by members in such a comprehensive manner. The meeting of the joint committee is now adjourned until 9.30 a.m. on 13 February, when we will hear from HIQA and Tusla on the recruitment and retention of social workers as part of our consideration of the matter under the work programme of 2019.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (5 Feb 2019)

Alan Farrell: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Report of Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Motion (7 Feb 2019)

Alan Farrell: I move:That Dáil Éireann shall consider the Report of the Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs entitled 'Tackling Childhood Obesity', copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 14th November, 2018. As the Chair of the Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs, I am pleased to discuss the committee's report on childhood obesity. I wish to express my...

Report of Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Motion (7 Feb 2019)

Alan Farrell: I thank all Deputies for their contributions. I acknowledge the Minister of State's commitment that this report will go before the national obesity policy implementation oversight group for consideration. My first suggestion is that group's name should be shorted, as it is a bit long. Perhaps it could be abbreviated. This is an epidemic and its scale of difficulty, presented to us as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Farrell: I welcome members and those viewers who may be watching the proceedings on Oireachtas TV to the public session the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the recruitment and retention of social workers. In the first session, the committee will hear from representatives of the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA and, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Farrell: I thank Ms Dunnion for her opening statement. What steps have been taken, to the best of her knowledge, to create, with educational institutions, a framework for a formal career path? Ms Dunnion mentioned that other jurisdictions use non-social work staff to carry out activities undertaken by social workers here. What progress is being made on that here? Is it having any beneficial impact...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Farrell: Is there a formal communication channel between HIQA and that implementation group such that there would be regular conversations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Farrell: I have a few further questions. I should have asked this question at the outset, but is HIQA adequately resourced to fulfil its statutory responsibilities?