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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: Out of that €178 million, 847 different childcare facilities were awarded funds under the programme. Is that figure correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: How many of those would have been private facilities?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: My figure is that out of the 847 childcare facilities which benefited from that fund, 501 were private. Has the Department undertaken any analysis of how many of those are still in operation today?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: The reason I asked for this information is that there was a parliamentary question on how many of these facilities were still in operation. The response was “it is not possible to provide an accurate number of services that received funding under the NCIP, both community and private, that remain in operation to this day”. Why is that? Is it because it is information the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: From a process and procedures point, there is a commission of investigation in place regarding mother and baby homes. Obviously, it is independent and must do its work. However, there is much public concern about the commission’s refusal to release information to affected family members on where their relatives are buried. I have spoken to some family members who say it is painful...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: I fully accept everything Dr. Lynch said but given the matter is a source of public commentary, and some relatives have raised concerns about it, has the Department any idea why the commission refuses to release the information to family members? Nobody has been given any indication as to the rationale behind it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: I fully accept that it is a quasi-court, that it is independent, and that it would be inappropriate for the Department or anybody to intervene directly in the work of the commission. I have no difficulty with that but there seems to be a fundamental issue for the families involved. If there are lines of communication between the Department and the commission, perhaps there could be an...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: An issue that is not directly related to the Department but that has a direct bearing on children is child homelessness. What engagement and interaction is there between the Department and the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government in respect of the issue? The figures have increased steadily. There was a marginal decrease in the rate of child homelessness in the most recent...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: Are some homeless children not included in the figures presented by the Department? My understanding is that the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government presents homelessness figures that include people in emergency accommodation in the main. Are there children under the watch of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs who would be classed as homeless? I refer to children...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: Dr. Lynch referred to "all children". Under what category do they fit?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: When the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government categorises children as homeless, does it seek information from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: Is the Department satisfied that the overall figures capture child homelessness in its entirety?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: Children in direct provision centres are also classed separately. There are a couple of separate categories and I was trying to tease out whether there were others.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: This is very unfair.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: How many of those are from Sinn Féin? I would say a fair number of them are.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: If the Ceann Comhairle looked straight ahead and not just left and right.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: I take exception to sitting here week after week, day after day, without speaking.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: The Ceann Comhairle can take whatever exception he wants.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Overcrowding (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: Last Friday, at University Hospital Waterford, a number of cancer patients who were preparing for surgery were, unfortunately, sent home because critical care at the hospital had reached capacity and was at crisis point, according to those who work there. I am sure the Minister of State appreciates that when somebody has cancer, it is a traumatic event for the person and his or her family....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Overcrowding (18 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I fully accept his point that any decision to delay admission for treatment is not taken lightly. I accept that hospital management do not take those decisions lightly because they recognise, as the Minister of State did in his response, there is an additional trauma for patients who are already traumatised because of the type of surgery they are...