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Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Can this matter be taken up with the person concerned? I presume it is a principal officer who is responsible.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. McCarthy. Representatives from Tusla were before the committee recently. I wish to say two things about this matter. The first concerns unaccompanied minors arriving in Ireland. They arrive and become Tusla's responsibility to deal with, home and process. These minors are, literally, landed at its front door. Supervision must be provided for these children in bed and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: These children are travelling from Ukraine to other countries.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: It is a third-state issue.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Is the issue being addressed? Is it being highlighted by the officials to the Ukrainian embassy and to other states where children are coming from?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: I understand that.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: 15. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the mitigation measures being considered to cover losses in ancillary tourist services, due to tourist accommodation being utilised for other uses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16833/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: 31. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department plans to provide tourist amenities at the Cúil Na Móna plant at Togher, Portlaoise, along with the three bogs in Laois, that is, Cúil na Móna, Coolnacartan and Cashel; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16832/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Poverty Data (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: 95. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the scale of in-work-poverty, where, according to CSO data, the rate stands at 5.9%; and the role that a living wage plays in combatting this. [16835/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Minimum Wage (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: 121. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of times the Labour Employer Economic Forum subgroup on collective bargaining has met in 2024; and if he can provisionally indicate when the action plan on collective bargaining coverage to be presented to the European Commission as part of its transposition of the EU directive on adequate minimum wages will be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will review the tendering arrangements for secondary school books; and if consideration can be given to tendering in smaller lots, such as by school year or subject, to allow local bookshops to be able to tender; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17135/24]

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: There is a need to engage bilaterally because children are arriving here. Witnesses from Tusla were here recently. That organisation is facing a real challenge in terms of dealing with this issue.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Tusla has a number of challenges, and this is a major issue for it. Trying to provide supervision for these children, in bed and breakfast accommodation and other kinds of temporary accommodation and by means of overnight stays is challenging.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: I ask the officials responsible deal with this matter-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: I also have a question about Tusla in the context of the recruitment of social workers, because they are clearly under pressure. The figures show that there were 57 fewer social workers in recent years, with the number dropping from 1,669 in 2021 to 612 the following year. Again, there is an issue here in relation to staff recruitment, staff training and the workforce supply pipeline. What...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Has the Department, which is the lead on this, taken the matter up with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: How many extra training places will there be this year compared with last year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Have those figures for social workers continued to decrease in 2023? I refer to the loss of 57 people in one year.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: There has been more of a drop.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Regarding family resource centres, these are funded by the Department.