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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Alan Farrell: Somewhat. The phrase "further clarity" or something like that might be more appropriate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Alan Farrell: That should tell the parents that there is a small issue that might need to be resolved following a learning period. The provider can then go to the parent with that information. Tusla can tell parents not to ask it, but to ask their providers. Tusla cannot give that information, but the provider should. That would give the parent the necessary information to make an informed decision,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Alan Farrell: I understand that. It is a comparative economic theory, namely, the law of diminishing returns. Obviously, we will not have to put as much effort or investment into inspections in future. Mr. Lee mentioned a risk register. Tusla has identified 37 facilities that are the subject of first and second reports. Those reports have not been published because there clearly are still issues. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Alan Farrell: How many others are on it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Alan Farrell: How many steps are in the rating?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Alan Farrell: Will Tusla, through the secretariat, provide the committee with the numbers in each category-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Alan Farrell: -----and the criteria upon which a service might-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Alan Farrell: Of course not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Alan Farrell: Could we also be provided the criteria a service must meet in respect of each category?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Alan Farrell: That would be helpful to the committee in our future meetings on this matter. Our guests will have to forgive me, but something that arose in the research that my office and I undertook in the past week was the concept of providing parents with more information so that they could make informed decisions. The example of the NCT popped into my head and will not leave. I have in mind a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Alan Farrell: We are into the fourth hour of this meeting. On behalf of the committee, I sincerely thank all of our guests for attending this morning and this afternoon and the members for their comprehensive questions. I hope that they all feel like they have got everything off their chests.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Alan Farrell: On behalf of the committee, I thank our guests for attending.
- Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)
Alan Farrell: I thank the officials for coming in and I will start by complimenting them. That is probably not a surprise but I wish to compliment the officials on the centenary celebrations of the Oireachtas because they have been exceptionally well performed or pulled off or whatever one calls it. In particular, the Dáil 100 events were well managed and some of the finances for this were expended...
- Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)
Alan Farrell: One of the things from which Members and their staff have benefited is the upgrade from Lotus Notes email to Outlook. I cannot remember for how long Lotus Notes was used in the House of the Oireachtas. It was a very clunky system.
- Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)
Alan Farrell: A long-serving member of staff in my office is also a long-serving member of the political system. On some mornings, it took an hour before the computer started up and one could get into it. The upgrade was desperately needed. On personnel and payroll, I wish to specifically address overpayments. It is a problem across all Departments and I am sure it is commonplace elsewhere also....
- Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)
Alan Farrell: It is a point of principle.
- Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)
Alan Farrell: On personnel of a different type, secretarial allowances and overspends relating to assistants for non-office holders of the Dáil and Seanad, there are significant sums involved and I am somewhat confused about it. I would have thought that overtime would be fairly consistent in respect of those employment categories. By looking back at previous years, one could probably extrapolate...
- Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)
Alan Farrell: Indeed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)
Alan Farrell: I see. It is specific to that two hour agreement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)
Alan Farrell: That is fair enough. I will tread carefully on the next issue.