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- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: Will each of us make a statement? Will we deal with the Estimates like we did in the past, on a heading by heading basis?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: I am happy to deal with the Estimates heading by heading, and every issue under the heading, if my colleagues are.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: I appreciate the Chairman's offer but I do not want to speak just for the sake of doing so. I have listed my questions under each heading that I want the Minister to address. There are two issues he failed to outline in his opening address. One of them relates to legislation and the provision of legislation for the national information and tracing Bill which is critical legislation. My...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: I shall make the rest of my comments when we deal with each heading.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: This is the main subhead in terms of the financial allocation. I acknowledge there has been an increase, but I am concerned because last year there was an overrun of €25 million in regard to the new agency. At the lead-in to the budget, the CEO of the agency, Gordon Jeyes, said he would require an additional €45 million for the agency to stand still, but a further €60...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: I thank the Minister. On his point on the ESRI review of the school completion programme, is there a date for publication of the review? To be fair, the participants in the scheme are quite anxious, as he knows, in terms of their vulnerability and sustainability into the future. Any organisation that has a review hanging over its head always thinks of the worst outcomes. It is important...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: Yes.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: To be fair, head 1 is where the largest section of money is spent.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: This is crucial because unless appropriate resources are allocated at the beginning of the year, organisations will not be able to hire the required people. We are talking about crucial front-line services and the protection and welfare of children. I refer to an internal report presented to the board of the Child and Family Agency last week which stated that the backlogs were so acute in...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: It is because-----
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: -----in order to get hundreds of extra staff-----
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: I am trying to be fair. In order to get extra staff, we need to have the appropriate resources in place. If we do not have the appropriate resources in place now, no matter what we do, we will not be able to get the required number of staff in the future.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: I want to acknowledge the Government's commitment to the construction of the centre at Oberstown. It is a welcome development. When the former Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald, secured the funding for it, I acknowledged that fact. It is only right and proper that when something is being done correctly it is acknowledged, and I have no problem in doing so. Sometimes there is a difference in...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: I presume the slight reduction in the allocation for current expenditure is due to the decline in the number of children participating in the child care programme.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: Given the level of additional requirements being imposed on preschool education providers, for example, new inspections and regulations, and the reduction in the number of service users, would this not be an appropriate time to restore the previous level of capitation? Some preschool services have been put to the pin of their collar and may not survive. A rally on this issue will take place...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: I would like to share my experience on this issue. The additional charges which the Minister considers a problem are a necessity because the services require more money to break even. I am a member of the board of management of a community facility in my constituency. I was unable to attend a meeting of the board held last night but I learned that it is planning to organise a 5 km fun run...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: I welcome the significant increase in the capital budget provided for in this subhead. I presume it will be used to fund a new grant scheme to be introduced this year. Will private services, which were unable to avail of the scheme last year, be eligible to avail of the new scheme? Will the scheme be primarily for maintenance works or will service providers be able to apply to it to fund...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: The Minister will have an easy day then because he will have answered all the questions today.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: This initiative was rolled out at the time to address a change in the eligibility for the one-parent family allowance. I refer to a reply to a parliamentary question I asked last June. The scheme was originally formed with 6,000 places and an allocation of €10 million. In June 2014, after its first year in operation, 154 places had been availed of. It is clear that the scheme is...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: The balance of the money which was not utilised for the after-school programme went into the establishment of this programme.