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- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Are they funded by Tusla?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Totally.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: I am referring to children alone - to the children end of it. Tusla does not mix adults and children in the one resource centre.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Are they not places to stay, though? If a child is removed from a situation of domestic violence for his or her own protection, is he or she not placed in a family resource centre?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Are resource centres like this available everywhere in the country?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Tusla was set up four years ago because of cases where neglect was permitted to continue by State agencies. In my area, the Grace case famously happened and we all know about that. Is Tusla able to guarantee that nothing like that will happen today? In the Grace case, a neglected child was left in foster care for years and years without anyone doing anything about it. It was ignored...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: The Chairman asked about homelessness, which I understand local authorities are responsible for. However, if children are being neglected because of homelessness, is there a role for Tusla to play or an influence it can bring to bear? I always mention my local authority of Kilkenny County Council. Can Tusla approach a local authority and say a particular family with perhaps three or four...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: And Tusla uses that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Is the school completion programme, involving funding of €144 million and 900 payees, related to the roll-out of the early education school? I may have asked the wrong question. Can the witness explain it to me?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: What is the school completion programme?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Does Tusla go in to schools to check on these issues?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: It also liaises with local schools and principals.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Is that at primary school level?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Is it mostly done at primary school level?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: And secondary schools. Tusla goes in to schools to speak to teachers and principals to ensure-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Is Tusla called in by principals and teachers or does it go into schools on its own initiative?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: That is interesting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: How many more staff or how much more money does Tusla need to have a perfect situation? There can never be a perfect situation but what more funding will Tusla need over the next three to four years in terms of personnel and finance?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Page 108 of the programme for Government states that the "next generation of farmers must be supported, to generate farm income, while positioning Ireland as the highest quality food producing nation in the world". There is huge concern in Kilkenny and elsewhere that the six remaining veterinary laboratories may be under threat of closure by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: What is the cause of the overrun?