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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Alan Farrell: Members of Early Childhood Ireland are offered a significant discount. What has the organisation done to merit a discount? Does it offer a risk mitigation programme that we do not know about?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Alan Farrell: Are they doing anything on the regulatory front? That is the question being asked.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Alan Farrell: What does that mean?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Alan Farrell: It has been repeated that this is a solutions-based meeting and we wanted to get as much information as possible into the public domain primarily to try to ameliorate the distress and concern, which is completely justified. I received two calls from parents in my constituency while walking from the Dáil Chamber to this committee room. I know all Members will have received emails. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Alan Farrell: The timely production of reports.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Alan Farrell: The Minister will be pleased to hear that the questioning has come to a conclusion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister and her officials for attending at such short notice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Alan Farrell: I wish the Minister, the members of the committee and the staff of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs a very happy Christmas.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (12 Dec 2019)

Alan Farrell: 336. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52180/19]

Scouting Ireland: Statements (Resumed) (11 Dec 2019)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Business Committee for agreeing to schedule the resumption of this debate. The issues arising from the scouting movement are emblematic of Irish society's failure of our children in the distant and not so distant past. Similar issues in many sectors of society have too often come to light. The victims in each case have real experiences and have had to suffer in silence for...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (11 Dec 2019)

Alan Farrell: The Minister of State has five minutes to conclude. It is scant time to address all of the issues raised but that, as I am sure the Deputies will understand, is a matter for the Business Committee.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (11 Dec 2019)

Alan Farrell: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 29A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputies Eamon Scanlon, Eugene Murphy and Marc MacSharry - to discuss safety concerns on the N4 primary route at Cootehall junction; (2) Deputy Aindrias Moynihan - to discuss the ongoing delays in providing the new Macroom Garda...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Alan Farrell: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle just let the leader of the Opposition speak for more than two and a half minutes.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Alan Farrell: I am very familiar-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Alan Farrell: Last week, Members started to debate statements on Scouting Ireland but the debate was not concluded. I find it unusual that the debate did not flow into the following week, given there are new subjects for statements. Deputy Rabbitte was in possession and three or four Members, myself included, wanted to make a contribution on it. I suspect the matter could be concluded in well under an...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Chief Whip. I did bring it to the attention of his office well before the Business Committee met.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Alan Farrell: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I ask Ms Forbes if RTÉ has commissioned a study of the landbank in Dublin 4 in relation to the potential to dispose of it, relocate, and the cost associated with that. This is in the context of RTÉ having already disposed of part of the land, so clearly it was thinking about it. We have been talking about decentralisation and my colleague,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Alan Farrell: Perhaps another day we could drill into what constitutes complex land in Dublin 4. I am asking about the cost of relocating versus retaining a multi-million euro Dublin 4 site that Ms Forbes inherited. I understand this is not of her doing. Would Ms Forbes accept that a site anywhere else would be more advantageous in terms of the cost? If RTÉ were to dispose of Dublin 4, it would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Alan Farrell: Of course. I ask Ms O'Keeffe to answer the question, please. How much would it cost to relocate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Alan Farrell: RTÉ assessed it in 2017, when the market perhaps was not quite the same. I apologise - RTÉ disposed of the land in 2017. In what year did it assess it?