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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Child Protection Policy: Scouting Ireland (9 May 2018)

Alan Farrell: I am sorry, Deputy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Child Protection Policy: Scouting Ireland (9 May 2018)

Alan Farrell: I do not mean to limit the Deputy's contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Child Protection Policy: Scouting Ireland (9 May 2018)

Alan Farrell: That is probably appropriate for Dr. Lawlor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Child Protection Policy: Scouting Ireland (9 May 2018)

Alan Farrell: Would the Deputy find it helpful if I read a small section of the Minister's response on the very issue he has just raised which he might not have seen because it has just been put on the record? It states that it is not the Minister's intention that Scouting Ireland should become insolvent. It states that Ms Jillian van Turnhout's task is scheduled to be completed when the necessary report...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Child Protection Policy: Scouting Ireland (9 May 2018)

Alan Farrell: Does anybody wish to respond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Child Protection Policy: Scouting Ireland (9 May 2018)

Alan Farrell: Does Deputy Ó Laoghaire wish to come back in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Child Protection Policy: Scouting Ireland (9 May 2018)

Alan Farrell: Thank you, Dr. Lawlor. I have four follow-up questions on the basis of what has been said. Will Mr. Burbridge and Dr. Lawlor give me a very brief overview of the rationale of Mr. Elliot going back and looking at the old files that are held securely in storage in Larch Hill? Dr. Lawlor can speak about those as a corporate officer of the organisation since 2012, but prior to that he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Child Protection Policy: Scouting Ireland (9 May 2018)

Alan Farrell: Does Mr. Burbridge have any comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Child Protection Policy: Scouting Ireland (9 May 2018)

Alan Farrell: I appreciate this is entirely related to the fact we more or less demanded that the witnesses attend, and we very much appreciate that, but it occurred to me that there is no one here who can speak on behalf of the board, that is, there is no officeholder of the board here. Mr. McCann is on the board but I do not believe he holds a position of responsibility. This lends itself to the next...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Child Protection Policy: Scouting Ireland (9 May 2018)

Alan Farrell: Thank you very much, Mr. Burbridge. Once the management structure, etc., have been agreed by the general membership, I ask that the witnesses consider appearing before us again, perhaps with assistance of Mr. Elliot, if the timing is appropriate. I would make that request of the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Child Protection Policy: Scouting Ireland (9 May 2018)

Alan Farrell: Thank you. I appreciate that. On behalf of the committee, I thank all the witnesses for their presentations and how they dealt so comprehensively with all the questions. On behalf of the committee, I express my appreciate to quite a number of individuals from around the country who contacted me and a number of my colleagues with huge concerns that we have addressed today. I appreciate...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adult Mental Health Services Staff (9 May 2018)

Alan Farrell: 171. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the action he is taking to ensure there is adequate staffing in CAMHS teams nationwide; his plans to provide additional resources for CAMHS services to ensure each person who requires support from CAHMS services receives support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20273/18]

Report on the Provision of Foster Care Services in Ireland: Motion (3 May 2018)

Alan Farrell: Go raibh maith agat. I will proceed in English because my Irish-----

Report on the Provision of Foster Care Services in Ireland: Motion (3 May 2018)

Alan Farrell: -----is terrible. I move:That Dáil Éireann shall consider the Report of the Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs entitled "Report on the Provision of Foster Care Services in Ireland", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 9th November, 2017. I thank the Ceann Comhairle and Business Committee for the opportunity to present the report on foster care,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Alan Farrell: I thought Deputy Connolly was next.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Alan Farrell: Like Deputy Cullinane, who highlighted this at the outset, I am acutely aware of the sensitivities of this matter in what is primarily a crisis of confidence in the entirety of this scheme and the implications that this has. In our role as members of the Committee of Public Accounts, sometimes we have to look at the bare figures as opposed to the overarching issues, which fall within the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Alan Farrell: No, it was not my dear constituency colleague; it was the Labour Deputy from Limerick. Her name escapes me.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Chairman. Deputy O'Sullivan made some remarks in 2008 during the debate on this matter. I went back to the transcript to see what others had said and it was interesting that one Member, who was not known to me, said this was a decision that was penny wise and pound foolish and shortsighted. I suppose we are now seeing the appropriateness of that remark - during a Second Stage...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Alan Farrell: It might have been a case that my mind was moving faster than my lips. By suggesting the taxpayer, I was inferring that if the fault is not with the State and the majority fault is primarily with the laboratory, the redress scheme would have to be funded via a settlement via the State taking a case against the laboratory. I should have made myself clearer. I must point out that I would not...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Alan Farrell: For the information of the Chairman, I have just learned that the State Claims Agency will be before the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach next Tuesday.