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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Person or Number?2: Crosscare (25 Feb 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Racism is a serious charge to level against any person working for the State. Is Mr. O'Brien aware of any type of censure being applied in the case of staff who have been found to be racist? Has Crosscare had dealings with the Department on this matter? Is it aware of complaints being followed up in the Department and officials being reprimanded for engaging in racist behaviour?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Person or Number?2: Crosscare (25 Feb 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Has Crosscare been informed by the Department of any case where a complaint has been made and the matter addressed by means of a reprimand or other repercussion for the official who has acted in a particular manner? Is Mr. O'Brien aware of any such instances?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Person or Number?2: Crosscare (25 Feb 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: This leads me to a question on the recommendation regarding the wearing by officials of name badges. I am sure officials of the Department of Social Protection will argue that they must put up with a significant level of abuse from people who come to departmental offices. They will be unwilling to use name badges because it is very easy to find out where someone lives nowadays. People who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Person or Number?2: Crosscare (25 Feb 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: There is a high rate of successful appeals, at 55%. I have had suspicions as have others that there is a general policy within the Department to turn everything down initially which will turn a fair number of people away. Fewer people will come back, which will mean less expense for the Exchequer. Does the 55% success rate in terms of appeals point to incompetence on the part of front-line...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Person or Number?2: Crosscare (25 Feb 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Is there a cost dimension to that extra layer of bureaucracy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Person or Number?2: Crosscare (25 Feb 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I wish to return to the issue of interpretation, which is fascinating. Did geography have any bearing on that or was an unwillingness to use interpretation services found across the board? Was that because people were under pressure and felt that it would be too time consuming? Was it because they did not want to have the hassle of having to telephone somebody else? What was the issue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Person or Number?2: Crosscare (25 Feb 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: One final point which comes to the nub of it. Do the witnesses think that there is a culture within the Department and among its front-line staff which means that people who are from an Asian, African or eastern European background, who have a strange accent or a name that is not identifiably Irish, are treated differently?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Interaction of GAA with the Diaspora: GAA (25 Feb 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Cuirim céad fáilte roimh na toscairí. Ní rachaidh mé siar ar an méid atá ráite ach tréaslaím leo as ucht na hoibre atá déanta acu. Ba mhaith liom tréaslú le Liam O'Neill go pearsanta as ucht an jab atá déanta aige ó thaobh cur chun cinn na Gaeilge le roinnt blianta, fad agus a bhí sé mar...

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire go dtí an Teach. Despite no longer being front page news, the trolley crisis is still rumbling in emergency departments across the country, with 514 people waiting on trolleys yesterday. Waiting lists are growing longer, with 385,781 people now waiting for outpatient care. The number of people having to wait for more than a year for an outpatient...

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: We are in a nightmare scenario at the moment.

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: We have learned our economics from Fine Gael and the Conservative Party.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Orthodontic Service Provision (24 Feb 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Cuirim míle fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. Tá mé thar a bheith buíoch di as ucht an t-am a thógáil leis an cheist seo a ghlacadh. Tá cúrsaí ortódóntacha san iarthar ag déanamh imní do chuid mhaith tuismitheoirí ansin, go háirithe i gContae Mhaigh Eo agus i gContae na Gaillimhe. In October 2013 it was reported...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Orthodontic Service Provision (24 Feb 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I appreciate the information and statistics that have been given. There are still 1,500 children waiting up to a year for treatment, 1,294 or so waiting up to two years and 500 children waiting from two to three years, which is not a huge improvement on the figures we had a year and a half ago. Has the review that was talked about by the former Minister of State at the Department of Health...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Ach an oiread le mo chomhghleacaithe, fáiltíonn muid i nGaillimh roimh aon phostanna nua a chuirtear ar fáil. Is mór an rud 300 post a bheith ag teacht go dtí ceantar cosúil le Baile Átha an Rí. It is good news to hear that we have 300 construction phase jobs coming to Athenry. I would like to see clarity from the Acting Leader on the cost to the...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I have just welcomed the 300 jobs. These questions are valid. We have State assets involved in this so clarity is required on the issues. I am not asking for anything but that. The Acting Leader might remember that, when I was a rookie Senator, I called for a debate on the traffic situation in Galway city a number of times. I remember being told that we had a very able Fine Gael mayor in...

Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (24 Feb 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Céad fáilte romhat, a Aire Stáit. The Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, has indicated that she is aware of the criticisms of this legislation that have been levelled by Justice for Magdalenes Research, the National Women's Council, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and Amnesty International. These organisations are of the view that the Bill...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Rural Communities: Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (24 Feb 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I apologise for missing the Minister of State's opening statement as I was in the Seanad, although I received a copy of it. I will not go over the ground that has been covered already but there are a number of specific issues on rural proofing. Could the Minister of State tell us a little more about what she sees as rural proofing? She stated that IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Rural Communities: Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (24 Feb 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Has the Minister of State provided guidelines on how rural proofing should be included in their policies? How does it work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Rural Communities: Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (24 Feb 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The issue of the islands relates to the Leader programme.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Hear, hear.