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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of Childcare (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Jim Daly: We must move on because we are eating into the time we have with the Minister. We have only limited time with the Minister up to 12 p.m. to get that on board so I must get the balance right. Does Mr. Walsh wish to comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of Childcare (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Jim Daly: I thank the witnesses. The clerk has advised me that a report was made to the Committee of Public Accounts on the guardian ad litemservice. The Comptroller and Auditor General did a lot of work on the breakdown of the costs. The report is available for information purposes. In summary, a total of 1,600 children availed of the service last year at a cost of €16 million which works...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of Childcare (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Jim Daly: I welcome the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Katherine Zappone, and her officials, Ms Eimear Fisher, assistant secretary, and Ms Lara Hynes, principal officer. I thank them for appearing before the committee.I ask members and the Minister to turn off their mobile phones as they interfere with the recording equipment and make coverage of the meeting difficult. By virtue of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of Childcare (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Jim Daly: I thank Ms Fisher.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of Childcare (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Jim Daly: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of Childcare (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Jim Daly: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of Childcare (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Jim Daly: I will allow members to comment again but I urge them to stick to asking questions. I propose to call on Deputies Rabbitte, Jan O'Sullivan and Ó Laoghaire to speak in that order.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of Childcare (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Jim Daly: The Deputy wants the Minister to clarify whether the Department has changed the role of Tusla.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of Childcare (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Jim Daly: The matter has been clarified.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of Childcare (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Jim Daly: I believe a compulsory GAL would be very dangerous territory. It would be appointing a GAL for every child for the sake of appointing one, because there are numerous cases where it is not necessary to have a GAL. There has to be a level in that regard. This is all about giving effect to the voice of the child. There is one issue that often confuses me. In court cases involving a child in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of Childcare (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Jim Daly: Is it possible to specify it further? As I understand it, they are not consulted in any way in the vast majority of cases. Foster carers will tell one, and I am trying to depersonalise this, that they have no role in this and that they are told it is a matter between the State and the child. It is my experience that there is a clear and deliberate intention to exclude foster carers from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of Childcare (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Jim Daly: In most cases the foster carer is the person who knows the child better than anybody else, be it his or her social worker, the judge or the GAL, yet they do not have any role. It is something that might be considered for the legislation, notwithstanding that it could be done by way of regulation. This might be an opportunity to give it a stronger effect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of Childcare (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Jim Daly: I thank the Minister and her team for their contributions and their time. I also thank the members for their co-operation.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (4 Apr 2017)

Jim Daly: 559. To ask the Minister for Health if he will issue a final reply to a query that was sent to his office in January 2017 by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16670/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (4 Apr 2017)

Jim Daly: 600. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS payment will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [16557/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Guidelines (29 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: 203. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 282 of 21 March 2017, the regulations and guidelines in place through her Department for teenage international students arriving here who live with a host family and attend secondary schools for an academic term or complete school year, without the presence of their parents or legal guardians within...

Business of Dáil (28 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders or in the order of the Dáil of 22 March 2017 that: (1) the Topical Issue debate shall not be taken today; (2) the divisions postponed from last Thursday, which were scheduled to be taken today, will now be taken on Thursday, 30 March; and (3) business today shall be interrupted at 6 p.m. to take statements re An Garda...

Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: Today's business shall be No. 5, motion re changes to Standing Orders 84, 108 and 111A; No. 13, Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad] - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages; and No. 1, Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention) Bill 2016 [Seanad] - Second Stage. Private Members' business shall be No. 96, motion re the Money Advice...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (28 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: 216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of persons currently approved for social housing in County Cork who are waiting to be housed, by town and settlement; the number of persons on the housing list in each area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15234/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Mar 2017)

Jim Daly: 385. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the recent changes implemented by the HSE for dispensing medicines on a weekly basis instead of the previously monthly basis noting the difficulties for elderly persons in particular to access their medicine on a weekly basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15307/17]