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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: Deputy Dillon has 20 seconds left.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Deputy Dillon. If it is okay, Dr. Morgan and Ms Crehan-Roche can come back on that at the end.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: I am moving on to Deputy Ward. Could he confirm his location?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: There is a minute and a half left for Dr. Morgan to respond to some of those points.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Professor MacLachlan. We will move on to Deputy Sherlock. Could he please confirm his location?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: Deputy Sherlock has one minute and ten seconds remaining.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: Dr. Morgan can come back in at the end to respond to those points. I call Deputy Whitmore. Could she please confirm her location?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: We need to move on. There may be time for members to come in briefly on one or two issues at the end. I call Senator Seery Kearney and ask her to confirm her location.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: I call Deputy Costello. Can he confirm his location? He cannot hear us so we will move on. I want to give Dr. Morgan the opportunity to respond to a number of issues raised that he did not get to address. Deputy Murnane O'Connor raised a staffing issue and Deputies Dillon and Sherlock raised various points as well. Dr. Morgan can come back in on some of those issues now. The Deputies...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: That is okay. I will group everybody together and ask members to be co-operative because we normally do not get a second round. Could they keep their questions to one minute?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: Do Deputy Whitmore and Senator Seery Kearney wish to add anything before I go back to the officials?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: Does Senator Seery Kearny wish to add anything?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Dr. Morgan. I will make one or two brief points, which are observations rather than questions. This is our third meeting on this topic, and all our witnesses have been very passionate about the issue. I am not sure if the witnesses had the opportunity to view the meeting with parents and representatives from advocacy groups. What people said was very powerful. As public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Dr. Morgan and his colleagues, Ms Angela O'Neill, Ms Breda Crehan-Roche, and Professor Malcolm MacLachlan, and I also thank the members. It is always more difficult chairing these meetings during Covid restrictions so I always welcome people's co-operation. We look forward to ongoing engagement. I propose that we publish the opening statements on the Oireachtas website. Is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: Sorry, is Deputy Crowe trying to make a point? I do not believe he was at the meeting earlier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: Okay, but I must ask the Deputy to be very brief because the meeting has concluded.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (25 Feb 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: 195. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of taped recordings of the 550 testimonies given to the confidential committee of the mother and baby homes report that have been destroyed; and the actions his Department is taking to retrieve this material. [10715/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (25 Feb 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: 196. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the taped recordings given to the confidential committee of the mother and baby homes report were saved onto a hard drive; and if he has requested that the Commission of Investigation surrender hard drives that could contain this information. [10716/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (25 Feb 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: 197. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of survivors who gave testimonies to the commission of investigation's confidential committee that have been contacted, who are still to be contacted or who the Commission of Investigation have not been able to contact; and the breakdown of those that indicated they wished their testimonies to remain...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (25 Feb 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: 238. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on the regulation of hemp stores in Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10628/21]