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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Reduction of Carbon Emissions of 51% by 2030: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: Those are very positive remarks as we approach the end of the meeting.

Child and Family Agency (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the introduction of the Child and Family Agency (Amendment) Bill 2021. The purpose of the Bill is to give full effect to the Taoiseach's announcement on 27 June 2020 that oversight of certain education and welfare functions would return to the Department of Education. Those functions, namely, the functions vested in the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and...

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Statements (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, for her attendance and for her opening remarks on breast cancer awareness month. I welcome the opportunity for all the Deputies in the House to join with many other colleagues to discuss this very important issue. Breast cancer remains one of the most common causes of invasive cancer in women in Ireland, after lung cancer, and is the second most...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Mr. Gloster and his team for being with us this morning. In his opening statement Mr. Gloster said he had been in situwith Tusla for 24 months. I congratulate him on that, but I can imagine it has been a tumultuous 24 months, particularly for Tusla and all of the staff in the organisation with the work they do. We acknowledge that. Recently I asked two parliamentary questions about...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: Is that for the current year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I presume this is probably what happened with the 23 who are listed here. Would I be right in saying there are 600 social workers now in situin post across Dublin or has that figure changed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: Those figures would be good to have, including the breakdown by area. Some of the figures were supplied to me in response to a parliamentary question recently, just about two weeks ago, so I have that. I also note from the figures that, as of December 2020, there were 1,169 staff members.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: Yes, and there were also 34 from agency. I might get to that later on in the second round questions because I am very limited for time. Mr. Gloster mentioned the 99 new recruits, which is very welcome. Based on a significant proportion of the staff working as front-line social workers, does Mr. Gloster feel there is adequate supervision and training, given that more than the 20% of the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: Of course. I appreciate what Mr. Gloster said earlier about those who leave the organisation in under two years or under five years. Given the area in which some are working, be it the volume or types of caseloads, I appreciate this is going to be a challenge for some of them. I turn to more operational matters. In the accounts there is a cost of €34 million for administration,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I ask that because there are reports that front-line and duty social workers are not giving out their mobile numbers to individuals, or indeed email addresses. It is very hard, even for Members of the Oireachtas, to engage with the organisation. There is one email address and that is it. Will this be reviewed under Mr. Gloster's tenure as CEO?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: On that latter point, I can absolutely appreciate that. I do not want to demean it by any stretch of the imagination. Given some of the extremely challenging areas and situations in which Tusla staff are working, I absolutely can appreciate why the mobile phone numbers would not be readily available. I am talking about general run-of-the-mill cases. Are business cards provided to staff?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Mr. Gloster for that. It would be helpful for us as a committee if Mr. Gloster would send us a note after this engagement today on the procedure around staff engaging with service users and how readily contactable they are.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: Mr. Gloster will appreciate the people who are engaged with the organisation want to be able to engage, and if Tusla is ringing them, they would like to be able to call back the individuals who are dealing with them. I thank Mr. Gloster for that. In my last minute, will Mr. Gloster confirm if Tusla carries out quantitative and qualitative research on the outcomes of cases, particularly...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: Has that started?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I ask Mr. Gloster to furnish any information he has on that to the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Circular Economy Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I apologise for my late arrival. I was next door at another committee meeting. I will not go into other matters because I do not want to go over ground I presume my colleagues have covered. However, I wish to ask about the connection between ETBs and the need to train technicians in order that we can facilitate people who, as Senator Pauline O'Reilly said, want to reuse more and extend the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 138. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details of the Garda budget for 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51629/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 245. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 648 of 10 March 2021, the position regarding the matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51776/21]

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2018: Restoration to Order Paper (19 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I move: "That, pursuant to Standing Order 198, the Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2018, which lapsed on the dissolution of the 32nd Dáil,shall be restored to the Order Paper at Order for Committee Stage." This Bill seeks to regulate and restrict, where appropriate, convicted sex offenders from travelling abroad in the interests of the common good to protect people outside the State...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (19 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 270. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of his Department's review of energy security in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50581/21]