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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Robert Troy: It is primarily regarding my concerns about the failure to comply with furnishing a child safeguarding statement. While most of the amendments have been technical, this is a substantial one in that it attempts to bring forward a consequence for failure to produce a child safeguarding statement. With all due respect, it is utterly failing in its attempt. When one considers that failure to...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Robert Troy: Resources are always an issue. Even in the best of times one has to decide where to spend them. It is a question of how to prioritise them. This is a unique opportunity for the protection and welfare of children. Unfortunately, even in recent months, we have seen high profile cases where name and shame alone did not make people live up to their obligations in terms of child welfare and...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Robert Troy: I acknowledge the Minister’s directness and honesty in saying this is primarily a resources issue. When we raised this on Second Stage the Minister said this legislation should be taken in conjunction with the withholding of information Bill, which deals with a much narrower range of offences. I thank him for that. Before I bring forward proposals, I will examine how we can do it...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Robert Troy: I admire the Minister's optimism.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Robert Troy: I ask the Minister about the consequences if a mandated person does not fulfil the obligations and make a report. Is there a sanction in place? I lost the Minister in his explanation about why he is removing children or teenagers. Did he mention those between 15 years and 17 years?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Robert Troy: Older or younger?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Robert Troy: So it cannot be younger than 15.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)

Robert Troy: I appreciate the leniency of the Chair and I appreciate the Minister using this opportunity to update us. The Minister said that his priority is that no child is at risk of harm and I welcome that. Can he tell us categorically that no child is at risk of harm? How many cases are we talking about in terms of failure to report? In terms of ensuring that there are sufficient numbers of staff...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)

Robert Troy: Does the Minister have a ballpark figure?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)

Robert Troy: Will the Minister make his statement available?

Leaders' Questions (6 May 2015)

Robert Troy: No, the Government has not. That is the problem.

Leaders' Questions (6 May 2015)

Robert Troy: The Government's record speaks for itself.

Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)

Robert Troy: I welcome this opportunity to speak on this important motion and I compliment Deputy Murphy on bringing the issue to the fore in the public arena. Very often in politics perception can be confused with reality. A number of very serious questions remained unanswered despite freedom of information requests, several parliamentary questions and the issue being raised copious times by our leader...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (6 May 2015)

Robert Troy: 35. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost-benefit analysis undertaken regarding proposed changes in the Money Advice & Budgeting Service structures; her views on whether the proposed changes will mean that the value of the local voluntary input on the local boards, which has been the cornerstone on which the service has been built and developed into the most respected and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (6 May 2015)

Robert Troy: 41. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on changes to the community employment scheme; her assessment of the impact this will have on community child care service providers from September 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17247/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: HSE Staff Remuneration (6 May 2015)

Robert Troy: 283. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 255 of 12 June 2014 and the reply dated 30 September 2014, if he will provide, in detail, the expenses claimed by members of staff attending Health Service Executive child care conferences; his views on the number of staff attending these conferences; and the section of the Executive to which they...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (6 May 2015)

Robert Troy: 333. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on recruitment of posts for mental health services for persons with an intellectual disability; if he will provide an update on the development of a model of care for mental health and intellectual disability, committed to in the Health Service Executive's Mental Health Division Operational Plan 2015; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Industrial Disputes (6 May 2015)

Robert Troy: 347. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure a twilight payment (details supplied) from Abilitywest-Health Service Executive and Brothers of Charity to social care workers is made without further delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17594/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (6 May 2015)

Robert Troy: 457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will release capital funding to aid the development of Mary Immaculate College Library, County Limerick. [17352/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Personal Public Service Numbers (6 May 2015)

Robert Troy: 463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason her Department is requesting children's personal public service numbers; and if information regarding same cannot be obtained from schools. [17403/15]