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- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: Does Deputy Devlin wish to come in? The Deputy is probably going back into the Chamber in a few minutes.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: Okay. Does Senator Warfield wish to come in or does Deputy Buckley?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: I will ask a couple of questions. In January of this year, Dr. Muldoon's office wrote to the Minister for Justice asking that the office be removed from the new strategy combatting domestic and gender-based violence because funding was being cut, or it had been promised but just did not come through. Can Dr. Muldoon outline the reasons behind that? What, if anything, has happened since?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: No willingness to follow it through.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: It is actually a scandal for such small money that this kind of work cannot be done.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: Did Dr. Muldoon say he was in communication with the Department of Justice, which said the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth should be doing it, and that the Minister with responsibility for children had not even heard about it in the first year?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: Therefore, I take it there is nothing happening with that strategy at all at this stage.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: The Office of Ombudsman for Children has pulled back, however.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: It has no role at all.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: As Deputy Buckley said earlier, if we were to put pressure on the Department and it had to come up with the funding, would Dr. Muldoon's office be willing to come back in and do that work?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: They are all over it.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: One thing we can do here is try to put that pressure on.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: Yes, go ahead.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: Even if it were doubled it would still be small in the overall scheme of things and what the strategy can do.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: The committee will follow it up and try to put pressure on. As Dr. Muldoon has said, gender-based and domestic violence are a problem. Everyone admits they are on the increase. To think a strategy such as this, which would be a massive help for such small money, is not happening when I can assure everyone that while we are having this conversation the HSE has wasted this kind of money...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: Does Dr. Muldoon feel that more and more schools will start following?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: Or worrying about grades.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: It is a brilliant initiative. In October last year Dr. Muldoon spoke about over-reliance on the private commercial sector for accommodating children in international protection. He called on the Government to move away from this system for emergency responses. What is his take on the plans that have been reported regarding the acquisition of big accommodation centres and the White Paper...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: I agree. Those who have settled and integrated in communities over the past two or three years are now being told they will be moved. At this stage children have integrated in sports' clubs and parents are involved in tidy towns committees. To speak about moving them sounds crazy. The office's three-year strategic plan ends this year. What are the post-Covid strategic priorities for...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: That is good news.