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Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: Those are the cold figures. Even though what is being provided by the city council is not still acceptable, the point is that people can walk out their doors and access facilities in the city centre. People in Mosney are a long way from accessing any type of facilities for their day-to-day lives. Last year, the State paid €43.5 million to eight direct provision operators. Mosney...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: That would hold true in terms of facilities for children and child care being picked up by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, who is on our television screens at the moment. That was the subject of the Irish Refugees Council report on children in direct provision relating to decent child care facilities and so forth. What is the situation?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: If a person does not have much money in his pocket, there are not many places he can go in terms of accessing general free public services. It is a catch-22 as well.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: I know that. I am only teasing it out. Mosney has become a long-term centre. Has it been analysed in terms of alternatives? That leads me onto my next point. We are all well aware of the difficulties in accessing accommodation. What is the Department's role in terms of this issue, the Rebuilding Ireland programme and the contribution of the Department to that programme? Is the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: Does the Department share them? Obviously, this transcends to the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government in terms of the debates with the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Coveney, and the Minister of State, Deputy English. How is the Department of Justice and Equality dealing with this? Is it sharing its strategy? Is the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: What is the reason for the one-in-six statistic? If the housing assistance payment is supposed to help them, what is the prohibitive factor in moving out for those who have been cleared?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: I appreciate that. It is the same in every town. There are towns in my constituency where there is one property for rent. That leads into the process of my philosophy of whether the Department should be acquiring property.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: I appreciate that. I am just trying to get a sense of the real long-term policy. On the one hand, the Department is ruling out actual integration, but, on the other, it seems to have been scared off the process of acquiring buildings for fear of threats in local communities. That is why I prefaced my remarks. As a society, are we not moving into that space? We saw what happened in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: I can tell Mr. Waters that, from memory, it was something a person might suffer for one week, but one would not live there long-term.

Dublin Transport: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: I am delighted to have a chance to participate in this debate and support my colleague Deputy Lahart's motion. A special emphasis and focus on Dublin city has been lost in much of the debate here. In the past 20 years, a lot of good has been done in terms of investment in Dublin, including by the Government led by the former Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern. Deputy Broughan likes to be...

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: The programme for Government includes an entire section on the rights of local communities when energy pylons are to be imposed on them, yet the terms of reference for the independent review of the North-South interconnector published on Monday do not include any reference, as per the Fianna Fáil Party motion adopted by all sides, to the devaluation of property or land in counties Meath,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (10 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite the refurbishment of premises in Trim, County Meath which a school (details supplied) is waiting to occupy and which was promised over three years ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22234/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (9 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 316. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which Ireland voted during a recent vote at the United Nations in relation Saudi Arabia's seat on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women; the reason for the position taken at the vote; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22110/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (9 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 388. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions being made for rheumatology services in the new children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21490/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (9 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 389. To ask the Minister for Health if the new children’s hospital will have a rheumatology unit with an infusion suite; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21491/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (9 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 390. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to repair or replace the hydrotherapy pool in a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21492/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Qualifications Recognition (2 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a bachelor’s degree obtained by a person (details supplied) in Bucharest, Romania, is recognised as equal in value and status to a bachelor’s degree obtained in other accredited universities here and the wider European Union countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20641/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (2 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 857. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently on the waiting list for the occupational therapy service of Meath primary care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19440/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (2 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 858. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for persons on the waiting list of the occupational therapy service of Meath primary care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19441/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 859. To ask the Minister for Health the reason two occupational therapists who have left the occupational therapy service of Meath primary care have not been replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19442/17]