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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)
Alan Farrell: Does the Minister have the legal authority to publish a report commissioned by the board of Oberstown?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)
Alan Farrell: I am sorry. I have no desire to shut Deputy Rabbitte down but I am not aware that matter has concluded legally. If the Deputy does not object, I do not think it appropriate to comment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)
Alan Farrell: I appreciate that. It is not really my call; it is a matter for the House. I call Deputy Neville.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)
Alan Farrell: Members have made it clear in the course of the past hour that this will be the case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)
Alan Farrell: That is a very good question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)
Alan Farrell: What is the Minister's view of the question Deputy Sherlock asked?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)
Alan Farrell: In fairness, I think the conflict is between the reviewers and the board. The Minister is acting on advice. What is the Minister's view on it, as Deputy Sherlock asked?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)
Alan Farrell: Yes, Deputy Chambers made that point. The document was provided only once to the board but it occurs to me that if a review of a report is provided to its paymaster, namely, those who requested it, there would be a to and fro. That would of course depend on the report but in this case, because it was dealing with individuals, there would have been a to and fro. We now have a conflict. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)
Alan Farrell: That is our job.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)
Alan Farrell: I thank the Deputy because that sums up the position quite succinctly. Does the Minister wish to make any final remarks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)
Alan Farrell: On behalf of the committee, I thank the Minister for her presentation and for dealing with members' questions as comprehensively as she could.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (18 Dec 2018)
Alan Farrell: 78. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the role that new hybrid powerpacks for intercity railcars as announced under the climate action fund will have in reducing climate emissions. [53199/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (18 Dec 2018)
Alan Farrell: 108. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to reduce energy use through public lighting, with particular reference to non-LED local authority public lights. [53200/18]
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2018)
Alan Farrell: I apologise to Deputy Broughan. I had assumed he was next.
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2018)
Alan Farrell: That is fair enough. I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on the Bill. I am as disappointed as my colleagues in Fingal and my constituency that it is taking so long to bring it to the House for debate, but I welcome the opportunity to address some aspects of the Bill. The regulation of noise at Dublin Airport is of utmost importance because there are plans for the second...
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2018) Alan Farrell: Apologies have been received from Deputies Rabbitte and Sherlock. I welcome members and also viewers who may be watching the proceedings of this public session of the Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs on Oireachtas TV. On 21 November 2018, the Dáil ordered that the Supplementary Estimates for Public Services in respect of Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs - be referred...
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2018) Alan Farrell: The Minister will not be surprised to hear that I have no criticisms of additional funding being required in the Department. This is a demand-led service and I am heartened that 13,000 more than expected availed of these measures. That is welcome. I have a small number of queries. The Minister has outlined on numerous occasions the stark level of underinvestment for decades in the...
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2018) Alan Farrell: The Department has been good at advertising some of the new schemes, using bright and eye-catching colours. Is the Department spending enough on advertising the schemes, notwithstanding the fact that 12,800 additional children are participating? We can never do enough to promote the uptake of these schemes.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2018) Alan Farrell: Significant savings have been made in the youth capital scheme, under subhead B6 - youth services, with €1.665 million saved. There have been time-related savings for certain projects where demand was less than anticipated. When capital moneys are not expended I take an interest, as I did when it happened in the Department of Education and Skills in the past. The infrastructure to...
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2018) Alan Farrell: Has the Minister had the opportunity to review the committee's report on childhood obesity?