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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Reports (19 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: The Minister will be aware that some very interesting and important data have emerged from the second interim report into the child care law reporting project, which revealed that one out of every four child care cases that ends up in the courts involves a family in which at least one parent is a member of an ethnic minority, and that African families are 20 times more likely to have a care...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Reports (19 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: The Minister would clearly agree that data are very important to us in order to evaluate our policies and improve our services. We all agree that it is generally in the best interests of the child for him or her to remain with his or her parents if at all possible and for that family to receive the support it needs to get to that place. If a child is removed from his or her parents, it...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Reports (19 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: These are relatively new problems for a new agency to deal with. The most important thing is to flag them in order to attend to them. I believe that poverty and social exclusion in those communities represent a large part of it. We have a problem with retention of social workers, with experienced social workers leaving the system because the only promotional path open to them is to take a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Legislation (19 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 5. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the delay in relation to the publication of long-promised legislation on adoption and tracing, if he will consider supporting the Adoption (Identity and Information) Bill 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43989/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Legislation (19 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: I am conscious that the Minister is the third to hold this brief. Since I was elected to the Dáil I have been raising the issue of adoption information and tracing legislation on behalf of the 50,000 adopted persons in Ireland who do not have an automatic right to their birth certificates, listing their original names and parents’ details, a right that others take for granted....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Legislation (19 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: My understanding is that the Government will be more short-lived than the Minister thinks. Time is running out for him. I am cognisant of the fact that we have heard similar promises before. I do not blame the Minister personally for this, but every year we are told that the heads of the Bill are near to fruition. I am concerned that departmental officials complement many aspects of the...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (19 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 7. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the delay in the establishment of a commission of investigation into the mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43924/14]

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (19 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: I am aware that since the question was submitted there has been some movement on this issue, and the Minister met the coalition of mother and baby homes survivors last week. They felt he understood the points they made on the urgency of establishing this commission of inquiry into the homes and the need for the process to be all-inclusive. Will the Minister update the House in this regard?

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (19 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: I hope the terms of reference will be debated here also. It is a big project and must be done right, but there must also be a certain urgency in this regard. There is a certain irony that while the Minister was meeting the survivors last week and the Taoiseach was here stating that all allegations of sexual abuse should be thoroughly investigated, some of the victims of such practices in...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (19 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: I imagine the Minister will have the full support of the House for an all-inclusive approach. I hope the recognition that in effect a network existed whereby people went from homes into these institutions is taken into account, because we cannot cherry-pick victims. I am mindful of that many of the survivors have prepared a complaint for the United Nations Committee Against Torture. As the...

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: The Minister tells us he believes his package will be seen as fair and accepted by the majority of people. That is further proof of how completely out of touch the Government is. It really does not get it. People have gone way beyond the idea of tinkering with this toxic entity. The only thing that will satisfy the population at this stage is the abolition of water charges in their...

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: The Government has made a serious mistake today. As the Minister stated, this is an historic day. The Government had an opportunity to listen, take a step back and abolish water charges and Irish Water but did not take it. No one can govern against the will of the people. The Government has lost the mandate of citizens and its days are numbered. If the Taoiseach had any self-respect, he...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Remit (19 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 18. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on bringing child and adolescent mental health services within the new Child and Family Agency in order to ensure a better and more co-ordinated response to children with mental health difficulties. [43928/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services (19 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 27. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the submission to the Joint Committee on Health and Children by a person (details supplied), particularly where they strongly urge that rather than adding to the already enormous pressure on the Child and Family Agency, satellite type services, embedded within existing community centres like schools and addiction services...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foreign Adoptions (19 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 31. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 568 of 4 November 2014 regarding the 110 adoptions from Ethiopia and the 201 adoptions from Russia that have taken place here since the Adoption Act was enacted in 2010 the systems that his Department, the Adoption Authority of Ireland and any other agencies involved put in place to ensure that only...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (19 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 96. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the delay in the publication of the adoption and tracing legislation; and his proposals in relation to same. [43990/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Law Reporting Project (19 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 97. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his view on trends emerging from the two interim reports of the Child Care Law Reporting Project, particularly where it states that single parents, parents with a disability, and parents of non-Irish background are over-represented in family law cases. [43991/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (19 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 141. To ask the Minister for Health the policy of the north Dublin paediatrics occupational therapy services in relation to children with long-term disabilities and the lack of access to a multi-disciplinary team for these children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44530/14]

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 3) 2014: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 3) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: The starting point for this discussion has to be that access to water is a human right and access to it should be based on need rather than ability to pay. The provision of the service does cost money. We know this because we have paid for it through a central taxation system. The idea that water would be treated as a commodity to be profited from is absolutely reprehensible to most...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (20 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 14. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to amend the situation of taxation on rental income in cases where homeowners acquired property as their primary residence and had to leave it as they were no longer able to afford to pay the mortgage, or their family circumstances changed, leaving them unable to dispose of the property as a result of it being in substantial negative...