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Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Gabrielle McFadden: It is hard to believe that somebody who is vulnerable and needs a service would not be traceable. It is not that big a country.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Gabrielle McFadden: So the records are not right.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Gabrielle McFadden: If everybody was doing their job right and fulfilling their moral obligation, there would not be a need for reports and that money would not have been wasted. It is wasted.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Gabrielle McFadden: I asked whether staff ever do appraisals. Has anybody been held accountable for this?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Gabrielle McFadden: Are any of those people still working in the HSE or have they been moved on? Are they still working with children or adults who are vulnerable? Have we learned nothing from the past?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Gabrielle McFadden: They are named in the report or the investigations and they are still working with children?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Gabrielle McFadden: Are they working with children? It is a very specific question and a "Yes" or "No" will be fine

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Gabrielle McFadden: So we have not learned anything from the past. The headed paper refers to care, compassion and something else. What was the other thing?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Gabrielle McFadden: I suggest that those words need to be on more than the headed paper-----

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Gabrielle McFadden: -----because absolutely no care or compassion has come out in this whole story or in Mr. O'Brien's replies or tone with us today. There is absolutely no care or compassion there at all from what I can gather. I thank him for his time but I do not see any care or compassion.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2016)

Gabrielle McFadden: I am deeply concerned about the process in which school building projects are progressed through construction and the order on which they appear on the final list. Will the Leader invite the Minister for Education and Skills, or a representative on his behalf, to outline these procedures to the House? The new school building project for Coosan national school in Athlone is a matter close to...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2016)

Gabrielle McFadden: I thank the Leader.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Architectural Heritage (23 Jun 2016)

Gabrielle McFadden: Go raibh maith agat.

Seanad: Waste Disposal Charges: Statements (30 Jun 2016)

Gabrielle McFadden: We will take statements on waste disposal charges. I propose that we allow the Minister to contribute first. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Charities Regulation (13 Jul 2016)

Gabrielle McFadden: In my home town of Athlone, a Console centre was opened this year. The community in the midlands rallied and Console was very quickly inundated with people's generosity. Vast numbers of people in the midlands came on board; tradespeople and business people gave of their time, trade and money. Business people in the town and the wider area provided fixtures, fittings and furniture for the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Charities Regulation (13 Jul 2016)

Gabrielle McFadden: What is really important here is the phrase "seamless continuation of the three services", which the Minister of State used. I welcome this because that continuation needs to be seamless. What if these centres do not continue as they are at present? What will happen to them, who will own them and what will happen in the context of the work that has been done? People who gave of their...

Seanad: Housing for People with Disabilities: Motion (13 Jul 2016)

Gabrielle McFadden: Cuirim fáilte ar ais roimh an Aire. I commend Senator Dolan and the group for bringing forward this Private Members' motion. I welcome the Minister's intention to proceed with the implementation of A Vision for Change and, in particular, the report of the working group on congregated settings, which was a far-reaching indictment of the residential care settings for people with...

Seanad: Civil Law (Missing Persons) Bill 2016: First Stage (19 Jul 2016)

Gabrielle McFadden: I second the proposal.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)

Gabrielle McFadden: I offer my sympathies to the staff of Cameron in Longford and their families. They were told unceremoniously yesterday afternoon that their jobs were gone. I am concerned about the IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland funding invested in the company. What are the implications? Is that funding lost? I am also concerned about the number of IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland visits to County...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)

Gabrielle McFadden: Will the Leader ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to give us an update on the issuing of passports in the context of the increase in the number of applications since Brexit? On another issue relating to passports, it has been brought to my attention that several members of the Defence Forces who applied for military passports more than three weeks ago - such passports are...