Results 441-460 of 6,188 for speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 288. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that information sources holding records pertaining to illegal adoptions, particularly instances in which no adoption order exists, will be compelled under the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 to transfer their records to the Adoption Authority of Ireland. [9063/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 289. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to reach out to the more than 2,000 people who were sent from Ireland to America for adoption from the 1940s to the 1970s. [9064/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Authority of Ireland (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 290. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will reinstate the stakeholder adoption advisory groups established by her predecessor (details supplied). [9065/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 276. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the advertising that has already been arranged and the plans in place to further advertise the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes in print, radio and electronic media outlets, in view of the fact that the closing date for applications to meet the commission’s confidential committee is 1 March 2017. [9051/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 277. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the advertising that has already been arranged and the plans in place to further advertise the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes overseas in print, radio and electronic media outlets to ensure that the diaspora have an opportunity to share their testimony with the commission, in view of the fact that the closing date...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 278. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the advertising that has already been arranged and the plans in place to further advertise the fact that the closing date for applications to meet the confidential committee of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes is 1 March 2017. [9053/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 281. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there is a closing date for applications to meet the investigation committee of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes; and if so, the plans in place to advertise this deadline. [9056/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 279. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the 1 March 2017 closing date for applications to meet the confidential committee of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes is final; and if the commission will welcome contact for impacted persons living abroad, especially those living outside the UK, where the commission has not yet advertised its work. [9054/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 280. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the outcome if witnesses contact the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes after the closing date of 1 March 2017 for applications to meet the confidential committee. [9055/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 282. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will reach out to all those who have contacted her Department regarding adoption and mother and baby homes in recent years; and if she will inform them of the existence of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes. [9057/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Data (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 291. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the unit cost per hour if the affordable child care scheme was modelled on the basis of an average wage of €11.50 for child care assistants, with proportionate increases for management staff. [9073/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the representatives of the ISPCC for their attendance. This is probably the fourth or fifth lengthy discussion I have had on this issue and they never cease to be sobering or frightening. I often reflect that, even five or six years ago, I would have considered myself lucky to have got through the gap. I consider myself even luckier now in the that sense. I say this only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Before Ms Long moves on from that point, I also asked how it would differ from the Office for Internet Safety.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Tusla representatives for coming in. I will preface my remarks by saying that comments have been made about the Garda in recent weeks and months but regarding Tusla, it is also important to say that despite all the controversies with regard to Tusla it is worth recognising the very hard work, commitment and professionalism of the vast majority of its staff in what is very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have written down quite a few questions. With the Chairman's permission, I shall give my list of questions to Mr. McBride.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: There is a designated person for every intake record.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: In the event of there being designated persons and an allegation that a file has been created maliciously, is Tusla capable of disproving that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This is more about the malicious creation of a file by a member of Tusla's staff. Would Tusla be capable of disproving it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Mr. McBride can skip one question and go to the following one.