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- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Service 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (6 Mar 2019) Alan Farrell: I welcome the movement by the Department with the assistance of the Attorney General on the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016, which is currently before the Seanad. Will that Bill be passed shortly, which I know is the ambition? Will the additional sums provided to the Adoption Authority of Ireland be sufficient for it to fulfil its role when the Bill is enacted? Will any other...
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Service 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (6 Mar 2019) Alan Farrell: An additional sum of €200,000 was provided to Scouting Ireland recently for the purposes of procuring a safeguarding specialist. What subhead did that money come from? This was an increase in funding. Is it 2018 or 2019 money? It was allocated in February but it has not been drawn down yet. I ask the Minister to provide more information on that.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Service 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (6 Mar 2019) Alan Farrell: 2019?
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Service 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (6 Mar 2019) Alan Farrell: So it is extra money.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Service 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (6 Mar 2019) Alan Farrell: It is not extra money. It is money that has been reallocated-----
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Service 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (6 Mar 2019) Alan Farrell: It is extra for Scouting Ireland but it is within the Department's envelope.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Service 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (6 Mar 2019) Alan Farrell: Members referred earlier to legal fees under programme C. I reiterate that we would like a breakdown of that because it would be beneficial to the members to know where the money is being spent. Tusla officials and the Secretary General of the Department, Dr. Lynch, will be before the Committee of Public Accounts at the end of the month. Dr. Lynch will be delighted to hear that I will be...
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Service 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (6 Mar 2019) Alan Farrell: I wish to go back to legal services briefly, as another question has just occurred to me. The Minister mentioned €900,000 in the context of subhead C3.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Service 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (6 Mar 2019) Alan Farrell: A lot of that money relates to historic matters. Does the Minister expect that there will be a decrease in the near future in that area?
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Service 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (6 Mar 2019) Alan Farrell: Does the Department or agencies under its remit have anything to do with any of the inquiries that are ongoing, in terms of funding them?
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Service 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (6 Mar 2019) Alan Farrell: That is the only one under the Department's remit. The others are under a different Department.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Service 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (6 Mar 2019) Alan Farrell: I understand that. That concludes own questions. Do members wish to comment or ask questions on the overall budget for the Department and its agencies?
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Service 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (6 Mar 2019) Alan Farrell: On behalf of the committee, I thank the Minister and her officials for their attendance this evening. The committee acknowledges the work being done by the Minister and her Department in supporting children and families across the State and welcomes the increase in funding that has been provided for 2019.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Message to Dáil (6 Mar 2019)
Alan Farrell: As we have completed our consideration of the revised Estimate, 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 Revised Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2019: Vote 40 — Department of Children and Youth Affairs.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Project Ireland 2040 Funding (7 Mar 2019)
Alan Farrell: 12. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the next round of the Project Ireland 2040 disruptive technologies fund will open for applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11202/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Electronic Commerce (7 Mar 2019)
Alan Farrell: 47. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the supports available through her Department, and the agencies under the remit of her Department, to help businesses trade online; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11203/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (7 Mar 2019)
Alan Farrell: 147. To ask the Minister for Health the potential to deliver a primary care centre for Swords, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11344/19]
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Alan Farrell: I welcome Mr. Watt. I express my disappointment at the comments attributed to him earlier today in the media. I do not consider a colloquial expression of that nature to be helpful and it is unbecoming of a person in his office. That being said, we are here to discuss Government contracts and in particular, the contract for the national children's hospital. Hindsight is wonderful, of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Alan Farrell: Change.
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Alan Farrell: I have to ask a question-----