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- Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Staff (20 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: I am sure social workers will be delighted to receive the Minister’s thanks but what they actually want is support which they are not getting. If they got support, there would not be the high level of turnover there is. Neither would there be social workers saying that instead of feeling they were helping children or their families, they were part of a system that was causing further...
- Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Staff (20 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: We are in Ireland now.
- Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Staff (20 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: That is not true.
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Strategy Publication (20 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: 117. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the early years strategy, originally promised for 2012, will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2203/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse Prevention (20 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: 128. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the role his Department is playing in combatting online child grooming, cyber bullying and abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2205/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (20 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: 133. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of his proposed child care plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2202/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (20 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: 137. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on a Health Information and Quality Authority report indicating that children at a care centre in the southern region routinely engage in illegal drug use and criminal activity during frequent absences from the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2206/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (20 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: 529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she is taking to ensure retired and unqualified teachers are not hired as substitute teachers ahead of newly qualified teachers. [2566/15]
- Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (21 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 2:To delete all words after “establishing a Commission under that Act;” and substitute the following: “— calls for Schedule (11) (B) of the draft Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters) Order, 2015 to be amended by inserting after ‘their children’, ‘with particular regard to the...
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: There are Deputies out campaigning for elections.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (21 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: 31. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the number of front-line medical staff at Mullingar Regional Hospital, County Westmeath, is adequate to meet the demands being placed on them; the number of permanent front-line medical staff in the hospital in 2012, 2013 and 2014; the number of agency staff employed in each of those years; the timeframe for any recruitment process,...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HIQA Inspections (21 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: 58. To ask the Minister for Health the reason community nursing homes are being treated differently from private nursing homes with regard to the Health Information and Quality Authority standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2396/15]
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: That scheme has been discontinued.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: Is that a sign of what is coming down the track?
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: The Tánaiste does not realise the severity and consequences of what was in the CSO report. It stated that 140,000 children, one in eight, were without food and heat in 2013. The Tánaiste has agreed to a debate. When will the Government make time available to debate the findings of the CSO report? We need the debate not at some distant future time but now. My second point is...
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: In Longford town third generation family businesses are closing down and the Government is doing nothing to support them.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: When will the Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012 be brought before the House to give all Deputies an opportunity to discuss it and to ensure archaic practices are outlawed and that people will pay rates based on their profitability, not on the size of their premises?
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: Factual.
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhaltaí de Thithe an Oireachtais) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill and I compliment Deputy Mathews on bringing it forward. This is essentially about political reform. It is important that we are having a debate about political reform, although it is also somewhat ironic. One of the big trophies this Government has claimed in respect of political reform is that it brought in the Friday morning sitting to...
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhaltaí de Thithe an Oireachtais) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: Now the Minister of State wants to tell us how to speak.