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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices Data (11 Apr 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 780. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of young persons under 25 years of age supported by the county enterprise boards and Microfinance Ireland micro loans in 2015 and 2016, in tabular form. [18079/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Aftercare Services Provision (11 Apr 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 801. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 29 of 28 March 2017, the specific date on which she hopes to have the Child Care (Amendment) Act 2015 implemented in full. [17662/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Traveller Community (11 Apr 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 802. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on progress by her Department to date since the publication of Better Outcomes Brighter Futures, to fulfil Commitment 5.6 specifically in relation to Travellers as noted within that commitment. [17665/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (11 Apr 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 803. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of high priority cases that have not been allocated a social worker to date. [17666/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care (11 Apr 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 804. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the portion of the €37 million additional funding secured for Tusla for 2017 that has been allocated to improving foster care. [17667/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (11 Apr 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 805. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when a supervised residential unit (details supplied) in Letterkenny, County Donegal will be reopened; and if her attention has been drawn to the distress that this prolonged closure has caused. [17697/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Employment Initiative (11 Apr 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 811. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the evaluation of the youth employability initiative; when she expects to receive the report of the evaluation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18087/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (11 Apr 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 812. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the proposed review of the youth service grant scheme; the purpose and timetable for this review; if she will ensure consultation and engagement with the youth work sector throughout the process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18088/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Expenditure Reviews (11 Apr 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 813. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the actions of her Department with regard to the comprehensive spending review announced in October 2016, including engagement with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; her plans to review specific budget lines as part of this review and if so which; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18089/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (5 Apr 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Minister. I recognise that she has a long and well-known background in early years services dating back to An Cosán. There are two major parts - the short and long terms - to this issue. In the short term, we were trying to address the urgent matter of access to funding. A commitment was made in that regard. I welcome that some of that funding will come on stream this...

Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (5 Apr 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It was a very stark presentation. I have raised this issue with the Minister previously. I thank her for her presence. There are 13 services looking at potentially closing in September 2018 and seven of those are concerned they will have to close this September. They offer a vitally important service to children aged from naught to three years. It is at that age that early intervention...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank all of the witnesses for their presentations. We have had a very good discussion. I shall make three observations on specific heads and then I shall make some general observations. In terms of head 6(6), we have had a lot of discussion on the cross-examination of parties. There is a clause to the effect that the GAL may not request specific professional assessments for the purposes...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will begin by qualifying what I intend to say. There are a great many positive things in this legislation. In many ways, it will leave the area far better regulated and monitored. However, our responsibility in this committee is to try to work with the Minister to improve it. The concerns we have heard today and last month from several organisations are in two or three primary areas....

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is under head 6. The relevant line states a guardian ad litemmay not request professional assessments.

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I return to my point about constitutionality. Let us say someone took a case on the basis that a judge exercised his or her discretion not to appoint a guardian ad litem. Five or six years later, because he or she was not offered the services of a guardian ad litem, the person might return to court and claim that his or her rights under Article 42A were not vindicated. What defence could...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes. That question has been raised by speakers previously. Is it open to constitutional challenge and what would be the defence to a constitutional challenge on that basis?

Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann (4 Apr 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister's policy is wrong because it is crippling Cork, other regional cities and rural Ireland and it is putting workers in an impossible position by asking them to accept outrageous pay cuts. It is monumentally short-sighted because at a time when our cities are becoming more and more clogged up with cars, we need more investment in public transport. Such investment is the right...

Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann (4 Apr 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: There is a bit of a dichotomy in the media between rural and urban Ireland that misses the fact that this dispute has brought Ireland's second largest city of Cork and many other of our major cities to a standstill. The Cork Business Association estimates that footfall in that city has fallen between 30% and 50%. That would not be allowed to happen in Dublin. The Minister's response and...

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Given that there are ten minutes until the Order of Business, is there any possibility that the Minister of State could respond?

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is fine.