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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: It is welcome that the level of funding has been maintained this year. This comes on the back of a disproportionate cut under the subhead in recent years. That said, it is welcome that the funding is being maintained. Is it through these funds that the money is made available to the various education and training boards, formerly the VECs, which administer funding to various youth groups...
- 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: On subhead C5, I note that there is a reduction of 25% in the allocation. I would have imagined that it was under this subhead we would have been dealing with the allocation of funding for the early years strategy, a strategy which the Government promised a number of years ago would deal comprehensively with our vision for the development of this crucial sector. What is the position on the...
- 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 the cross-departmental groups on the affordability of child care feed into this strategy? Will the cross-sectoral team tasked with supporting children with special educational needs going into mainstream settings feed into the early years strategy?
- 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 do not mean to be pedantic, but I would have thought given the fact that when the early years strategy was first mooted it was going to be the overarching policy document and would be the framework and roadmap of how we want to see this crucial sector develop over a period of years, that the cross-departmental group on affordability of child care would feed into the early years strategy, as...
- 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 echo the sentiments expressed by Deputy Ó Caoláin, including his acknowledgement of the good work done by the Office of the Ombudsman for Children since its formation a number of years ago. Often when listening to speakers one would think there had been no positive developments in the area of child welfare and protection under the previous Administration. However, the Office of...
- 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 know that.
- 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 acknowledge the contribution made by the former Ombudsman for Children, Ms Emily Logan, which is also acknowledged internationally by virtue of her new appointment. I, too, wish Dr. Niall Muldoon well. I do not know him personally. He has big shoes to fill. I read in the Minister's press release that a large number of applications for the post were received, which is positive. I wish...
- 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 be associated with those remarks.
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Robert Troy: On the health (transport support) Bill, the Taoiseach will be aware that the mobility allowance scheme has been under a cloud of smoke for the past 18 months, during which time the Government promised to bring forward legislation to deal with this issue in a comprehensive manner. When will we be able to give certainty in relation to this allowance to the people who rely on it? On the...
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Robert Troy: No new applications are permitted.
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Robert Troy: I was told that last year.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists (4 Feb 2015)
Robert Troy: 122. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure a person (details supplied) receives an appointment for orthodontic care without further delay as that person has been waiting for over two years for this care. [5049/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (4 Feb 2015)
Robert Troy: 167. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding broadband. [5060/15]
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2015)
Robert Troy: It is Tánaiste's initiative.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2015)
Robert Troy: Labour will not have many councillors the way it is going.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2015)
Robert Troy: The Government has committed to establishing a low pay commission. When will it be established and what sectors will be included? As we know, workers in the early childhood care sector have no security of employment and often are on low wages.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2015)
Robert Troy: Some people with a degree are only earning a little above the minimum wage. Will this sector be included in the remit of the low-pay commission? Before Christmas the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, gave a commitment to bring forward legislation on asylum centres. As we know, 61 people, including 16 children, have died in asylum centres since they were...
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2015)
Robert Troy: Will the sector be covered by the commission?
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2015)
Robert Troy: Is the answer "Yes" or "No"?
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2015)
Robert Troy: The Tánaiste did not. She should ask all of the under 25 year olds who have been affected.