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Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (30 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 155. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the details of a company employed to make deliveries on behalf of a State body (details supplied); if the contract that this body has with the company is currently being breached by pay levels in this company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17075/15]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is there a note on the grouping of amendments?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Thank you.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I would like to ask the Minister about the listing of definitions in section 2. I am referring precisely to line 14 of page 6 of the Bill, which defines "relevant service" as "any work or activity specified in Schedule 1". The relevant connection I wish to make is to section 4 of Schedule 1, as set out on line 30 of page 18 of the Bill. It lists as a "relevant service": Any work or...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My only concern about the Minister's suggestion is that the definitions arise in section 2. As I have instanced, the definition of "relevant service" first presents in section 2, on line 14 of page 6. I accept it refers to Schedule 1. This section of the Bill defines "relevant service" as "any work or activity specified in Schedule 1". I am asking for clarification on how service...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Okay.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I do not think I am necessarily referring to a scenario in which someone is providing care to a solitary child. There are childminder operations throughout the country that provide care for multiple children.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No, I am referring to single-handed operations.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Yes, it sets out what "provider" means.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not so much about the single individual; it is about the multiple responsibility. The Minister said in his opening response to me that childminders were being purposely excluded. He is on the record as having said that.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I repeat the point that there are significant differences between various types of single-person childminding operations. We are not just dealing with a grandmother-and-child situation. I do not think it is appropriate not to address certain childminding operations in the course of this legislation. It is a serious omission. We will not get a chance to come back to the Children First...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will not labour the point, but I will make two observations in closing. The Minister referred me to page 7. Line 28 on this page states "'provider' means, in relation to a relevant service, a person". I refer to the fact that we are talking here about the singular. The language of the legislation is specific. It does not refer to a multiple of people, but to one person. Turning to...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The focus again is on the number, but the legislation refers to a person nonetheless. When one goes on to Schedule 2 - this is my last point and I believe it merits further consideration - "mandated persons" are mentioned: "The following classes of persons are specified as mandated persons for the purposes of this Act". We have an extensive list, which goes onto page 21, but it does not...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to make a brief response to Deputy Catherine Byrne. I fully agree with her view that the Bill should be all about children. It is "Children First" and that is the point I was making in engaging with the Minister and bringing attention to the fact that there is an area that is not addressed. The Minister has acknowledged that. He did so in his opening comment and has just done so...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This in some way is related to the points I made earlier. Amendment No. 7 seeks to delete lines 29 and 30, which immediately follow the point I made in regard to the "provider" person. The Minister wishes to delete subparagraph (a) and substitute a new subparagraph, that states more concisely that a "provider" means a person "who provides a relevant service". My question is complicated. I...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We may not disagree on the practicalities. It just may be difficult but I do not know that it is impossible. Maybe the difference has nothing to do with practicalities but how inclusive we want the Bill to be. I certainly would feel remiss, having this opportunity to raise the mater. I am only now acting in a seconded capacity because I am no longer my party's spokesperson for children...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not a small or casual situation. It is an arranged and agreed provision of services. Rarely is it in regard to one child in any one day or sequences of days. It is all very well until something goes wrong. We have a harrowing history of sad outcomes in regard to so many settings where children have been placed in trust. It is from that duty of care as an Oireachtas Member that I...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Rates (6 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 65. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the revenue that would be generated by an increase of 1%, 2% and 3%, respectively, in employers pay-related social insurance. [17746/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Rates (6 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 66. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the revenue that would be generated by an increase of 1%, 2% and 3% in employees Pay Related Social Insurance. [17747/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (6 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 167. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be generated by the introduction of a 1% income levy on all gross income. [17750/15]