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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues and the Loss of Positive Care Services: Engagement with Tusla (10 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: To follow up on the employment aspect, Tusla's aim is to have 5,150 staff. Two points strike me from what Mr. Gloster said. The first relates to the retention issue. Many people who get into social work do so longing to work directly with children. If there are multidisciplinary teams and if it is a social work-led team, the social worker becomes, and this is already a complaint of some...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues and the Loss of Positive Care Services: Engagement with Tusla (10 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: That gets us into a conversation about Meitheal and the prevention, partnership and family support, PPFS, programme, which is definitely a conversation for another hearing.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues and the Loss of Positive Care Services: Engagement with Tusla (10 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: It would be good to have these guys back to explore that because it dovetails with a lot of community development and that missing piece. As they say, it is important that when most people hear child protection their minds go to abuse, and particularly sexual abuse, whereas the vast majority of children are in care for neglect and there are much deeper societal issues in terms of addiction,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: It is Bike Week. Can we expand the bike to work scheme to people who are not PAYE workers, to the self-employed, the unemployed, pensioners and students? A shift to a subsidy- or voucher-based scheme would bring in many people who currently are not eligible for it and it would be a very good thing to announce during Bike Week.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disabilities Assessments (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: The Minister of State knows well the struggle experienced by many parents of children with disabilities in regard to assessment of need. We have spent a long time in the Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and in the Chamber debating what the Ombudsman for Children referred to as the "unmet needs" of these families. They are dealing with significant...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disabilities Assessments (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: If the Leas-Cheann Comhairle had seen the look on these families' faces as they cried in front of me-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disabilities Assessments (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: -----about their vulnerable children not receiving-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disabilities Assessments (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: These families stood in front of me with tears in their eyes as they spoke about how they had tried the best for their children, and how they had saved money they did not have and tried to spend it on getting an assessment and having the needs of their children met, and they did not get it. We need to fix the assessment of need service. We need to ensure families will get the assessments...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disabilities Assessments (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: I welcome the Minister of State's response regarding the need to register psychologists with CORU. As a social worker, I spent a lot of time registering with CORU. I found the process painless. It provides reassurance and support to the families social workers engage with. CORU has said that there is no regulation of psychologists but that it will be coming soon but, as happens in this...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 605. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way that the incidence of sentence miscalculation arose in Castlerea Prison which was highlighted in the Castlerea Prison Covid-19 Thematic Inspection, published by her Department on 28 April 2022, which reported that 30 prisoners had their sentences extended while in custody; the steps that were taken to ensure that all...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 606. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to the Castlerea Prison Covid-19 Thematic Inspection, published by her Department on 28 April 2022, if any other prisons had incidences in which the miscalculation of sentences occurred; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24448/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 607. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners under sentence in the Dóchas Centre and in Limerick Female Prison who received methadone maintenance treatment over the past two years by prison and by month in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24449/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 608. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners under sentence in the Dóchas Centre and in Limerick Female Prison who received medically assisted symptomatic detoxification over the past two years by prison and by month in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24450/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 613. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of Irish information retrieval legislation which was included in the 2021 autumn legislative programme and subsequently the spring legislative programme for 2022, given the UK Government’s commitment in the Queen’s speech to legislate for the independent commission on information retrieval. [24747/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 619. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current average wait time for consideration of appeals to refusal of short-stay holiday visa applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24822/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (18 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 43. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 162 of 25 January 2022, when legislation will be forthcoming to give the Workplace Relations Commission jurisdiction to hear complaints of breaches of the Working Time at Sea Directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25100/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (18 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of referrals that were made to the Workplace Relations Commission’s mediation process in the past four years; and the outcome in each case. [25302/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 246. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the difference between breaches of international law by Russia in its invasion of Ukraine and those by Israel as part of its illegal occupation of Palestine; the response to Israel's occupation and oppression of Palestinians he would regard as appropriate; if he regards restrictive economic measures as an appropriate response...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 359. To ask the Minister for Health the way that the HSE funding for a service (details supplied) was reallocated after its closure in 2021 to other services locally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25505/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (24 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: It is important to remember that Linn Dara deals with the most distressed and the most complex cases of children and young people seeking help. The Deputies speaking tonight are from Dublin South-Central and Dublin South-West but the reality is that Linn Dara serves Kildare, Westmeath, Laois, Offaly, Longford and Louth. As Deputy Collins said, this is a national service and we should really...

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