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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: We are meeting to consider the Revised Estimate for Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs, for the year ending 31 December 2017, which was referred to the committee by an order of the Dáil on 15 December 2016. When the committee has considered the Revised Estimate, this fact will be reported to the Dáil. I welcome the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, and...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister. Programme A relates to the children and family support programme to provide and improve the existing service delivery arrangements to protect and support the welfare of children, young people and families, including the oversight of the Children and Family Agency.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: A comprehensive series of questions has been asked.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Deputy Jan O'Sullivan has not commented yet so I shall give her an opportunity to do so.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: No. We are discussing programme A.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her presentation. I do not wish to overlap everything that has been said. The Minister mentioned the retention of staff.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Has Tusla tried to recruit expert staff? I mean staff who can head up investigations into historical cases. There are 5,000 historical cases but an ordinary person cannot work in such a department. Has funding been set aside to bring back people with relevant experience, who can manage teams, demonstrate leadership, give direction and deal with historical cases? The CEO of Tusla was in...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: It would be remiss of me not to ask the Minister a question on family resource centres. Has the Department encouraged Tusla to recruit more development workers for family resource centres thus providing early social care intervention? The initiative would remove an awful lot of pressure from many social care workers. We do not have 109 development workers. Are there plans to recruit some?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Some weeks ago I tabled a parliamentary question on the breakdown of all groupings that received funding under the heading youth and young people. It was an unusual question. I wanted to see how funding is distributed across the country. That was the nature of the question. I do not expect the Minister to answer the question today. Can she give me a commitment that in future she will...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: How is it broken down?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Exactly. I will follow through to see how it is spread throughout the country and whether if it is hitting all corners of the island.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: My question is similar to Deputy O'Sullivan, in that it relates to the commission of investigation. What will happen if more money is required? This may not be relevant to the Minister but it relates to the draft policy of 2014 from Tusla on procedures of governance as applied to historical cases and everything else. When will it become policy? In the past month it was taken from the...

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her speech. I welcome all she has said this morning. Deputy Micheál Martin is attending meetings of the ALDE group in regard to Brexit. He sends his apologies. He would have contributed to the debate this morning were he present. Last Friday morning, 3 March, the Minister, Deputy Zappone, informed colleagues and Galway County Council that exploratory...

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I am sharing my time with Deputies Mary Butler, Kevin O'Keeffe and Fiona O'Loughlin. I thank Deputy Ó Laoghaire for moving the motion. It is a conversation we need to have. What has been put before us has us back in the Chamber again to discuss this matter. We were here less than a month ago after the revelations about Tuam. "Shocked", "horrified" and "dismayed" are some of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (21 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 425. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of the estates in County Galway (details supplied) on his Department's unfinished housing estates list that remain unfinished. [13200/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Appeals (21 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 1098. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 of 22 February 2017, if he will review the case of a person (detail supplied). [14187/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (21 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 1305. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the constitutional right to privacy of the birth parent will be affected by the commencement of the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016. [13739/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Scouting Ireland: Discussion (22 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Apologies.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 16. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when her Department will arrange for payments to be issued to community early years child care providers in recognition of the impact on those providers of the full implementation of the Child Care Act 1991 (Early Years Services) Regulations 2016 relating to the minimum FETAC level 5 qualification for staff in respect of the €1...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I wish to ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when her Department will arrange for payments to be issued to community early years child care providers in recognition of the impact on those providers of the full implementation of the Child Care Act 1991 (Early Years Services) Regulations 2016 relating to the minimum FETAC level 5 qualification for staff in respect of the €1...