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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: Deputy Creed is next and Senator Ruane will be after him.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: I will move on to Senator Ruane, after whom I will ask a question or two.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: I have been my typically soft self in terms of chairing. We have to give the room back, so to speak, at 4.30 p.m., so that is 45 minutes for the two of us.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: No, those were useful questions. I was going to ask one or two of them. I will pick up on the final point. Oberstown has a youth council, youth board and so on. Why not have a parents council at the very least? Even if we cannot get a parent on the board or parents are not in a position to engage with it without some support, a parents council would certainly be a first step.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: The flexibility of the "come on down" approach is great, but it is fair to say that Oberstown is not in the most central of locations. In the past, it has used a minibus to pick up parents from the local train station, but even getting to the train station can be a nightmare. Can the bus pick up parents in the city centre? Is there flexibility enough to do that?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: Rush.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: I used to get the train to Rush, but with the anti-social-----

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: I am also conscious of some of Ms Yiasouma's comments with regard to the multi-agency aspect. It would be great to have her back to talk about that and about the roadblocks with other agencies, particularly Tusla, which obviously comes under the same Department and under this committee. She could talk about the assessments. Many of the children who will come into her service have already...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: I am very concerned that a lot of the quality of care Ms Yiasouma is talking about gets lost in the transition or just does not exist in the adult prison service. That is a separate question that we have addressed in the Joint Committee on Justice. There is a problem if that quality does not exist in the adult service. If this high quality is there and then gets lost because we are not...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: As I have said, it would be great if Ms Yiasouma could come back and tell us about those roadblocks.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: That would be great. Are there any other questions? Would Ms Yiasouma like to make any closing comments?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: I thank Ms Yiasouma for engaging with the members this afternoon. We wish her every success as she takes up her new position. The clerk will inform the Minister that the committee has completed its engagement with the chairperson designate. I propose to publish the opening statements on the Oireachtas website. With all of that done, the meeting now stands adjourned until Tuesday, 30 May.

Court Proceedings (Delays) Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: Like previous speakers, I underline that access to justice is a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy, as it is for any democracy. Delays undermine that. I have stood in the Chamber quite a bit in recent weeks to talk about access to justice, how we need to look at the failings in criminal and civil legal aid, and the failings in providing an adequate number of judges and registrars, in...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: In terms of record keeping, tracking outcomes and research, is Oberstown in a position to track someone who has made that transition over to the adult system and to see how much of the multi-agency work and positive intervention is kept up and how much falls away?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (16 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the under-provision of secondary schools in Dublin 8. [22895/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of works in Our Lady of Lourdes national school, Inchicore, Dublin 8; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22896/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (16 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: 168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures his Department is taking to encourage landlords to avail of the national home energy retrofit programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22646/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: 265. To ask the Minister for Finance the legal basis under which the hypothecation of the betting tax for the Horse and Greyhound Fund, as is stated in Section 12 (4) of the Horse and Greyhound Act 2001, was ended in 2009 (details supplied). [22717/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (16 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: 488. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a timeframe on the opening of the new women's prison in Limerick; the reason for the current delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22572/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (16 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: 489. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of capital funding being made available for his commitment to build over 400 new prison spaces at Castlerea, Cloverhill, the Midlands and Mountjoy prisons in the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22573/23]