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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Mar 2019)

Tom Neville: I wish to comment on the speed limit. Again, it goes back to practicality especially when we are talking about distance and time. What matters is whether we are half an hour or an hour from a given destination as opposed to thinking in kilometres. I share the view expressed by Senator Devine about the facts and figures around this. We have different types of cars and fuel consumption as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (27 Mar 2019)

Tom Neville: I thank the witnesses for attending. I have some brief questions on recruitment. I am a member of a mental health committee and recruitment issues have arisen in that area because much of the recruitment takes place on a national platform as opposed to locally. Second, people are on panels, which are quite restrictive. They need to be more flexible. Is there a correlation between both? ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (27 Mar 2019)

Tom Neville: If I can interject, does Ms McGuirk know how many steps it takes from the start of the recruitment process to the end?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (27 Mar 2019)

Tom Neville: The Joint Committee on the Future of Mental Health Care was given a breakdown of the steps a psychiatric nurse goes through to get hired. I think there were 26 or 27. Ms McGuirk may not have that information.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (27 Mar 2019)

Tom Neville: My question, and Ms McGuirk may not be able to answer it, is about the back end, the decision making on vetting candidates. How many stakeholders does that CV have to go to before Tusla decides who it is going to interview? After the interview process who decides whether a person will be hired? How many internal steps are there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (27 Mar 2019)

Tom Neville: Internally in Tusla how many steps does a candidate have to take?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (27 Mar 2019)

Tom Neville: That has an effect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (27 Mar 2019)

Tom Neville: That is why I was asking about the internal process because that is probably stretching it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (27 Mar 2019)

Tom Neville: Mr. McCarthy may not have these figures but would some of the panels and expressions of interest around the country be oversubscribed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (27 Mar 2019)

Tom Neville: Is it HR that makes all the decisions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (27 Mar 2019)

Tom Neville: I worked in recruitment in the private sector and in the companies I worked with there would be HR and a line manager. It was not one or the other. That kept it local.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (27 Mar 2019)

Tom Neville: This was done in a national format through a central database but the interview would take place with the hiring manager and the HR manager and both would decide on who to hire. Mr. McCarthy is telling me that one central function will make a decision on the hiring and that the line manager does not have a say in that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (27 Mar 2019)

Tom Neville: There is no conversion contract.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (27 Mar 2019)

Tom Neville: They are on contract.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (27 Mar 2019)

Tom Neville: What often happens in the private sector is that if a person is on a contract with an agency and does six or 12 months there is a clause to the effect that the company can buy the contractor from the contracting company and make the person permanent.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (26 Mar 2019)

Tom Neville: 292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grants and sources of funding available to schools to apply for funding for musical instruments; and the criteria of each scheme. [12811/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Appeals (26 Mar 2019)

Tom Neville: 987. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a mater in relation to an appeal by persons (details supplied) to a decision regarding areas of natural constraints will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13732/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport Ireland Funding (26 Mar 2019)

Tom Neville: 1075. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a team (details supplied) receives State funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13067/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Child Safeguarding Issues in Scouting Ireland: Tusla and Scouting Ireland (13 Mar 2019)

Tom Neville: I was going to ask a question on the lines of that asked by Deputy Rabbitte about the implementation of the eight point plan, the timeline and the deliverables. I do not want to repeat that but I want clarification. Has a specific process been established? What kind of interaction or communication process will be there? When has it been agreed that the outcomes will be achieved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Child Safeguarding Issues in Scouting Ireland: Tusla and Scouting Ireland (13 Mar 2019)

Tom Neville: Can we be furnished with the implementation plan? Is it within the committee's remit to ask for that? Then we could have an indication of the timeline.