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- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Sherlock: 134. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on further State funding for the event centre in Cork city. [47467/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Closures (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Sherlock: 200. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the planned closure of the health centre in Passage West, County Cork; and the measures in place to ensure public health services remain in the community [47534/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Severe Weather Events Response (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Sherlock: 285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the applications for storm relief funding that have been submitted by Cork County Council and Cork City Council; and the engagement that has taken place between officials in his Department and officials from both councils. [47468/17]
- Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Nov 2017)
Seán Sherlock: We are supporting the Bill without equivocation. We have had sight of the Equality and Rights Alliance publication by Tamas Kadar - forgive me if I am mispronouncing his surname. The analysis includes a recommendation for the introduction of socioeconomic status as a discrimination ground. The document refers to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which Ireland...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)
Seán Sherlock: As we have a quorum, we will begin our meeting in public session. Apologies have been received from Deputies Eugene Murphy and Dara Murphy and from Senators Colette Kelleher and Denis Landy. The usual proviso pertains regarding the use of mobile phones; I do not need to go through that again. I propose that we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)
Seán Sherlock: The next item is to record the decisions of the committee. The first petition for consideration is P000020/16 on negotiating norms. It is proposed to forward a copy of the response from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, including a copy of the its customer charter, to the petitioner and close the petition. Is that agreed? Agreed. The next petition for consideration is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inspection of the Oberstown Children's Detention Campus: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)
Seán Sherlock: I was hoping that the witnesses would come before us today with a very clear, metric-driven response to each of the points which were raised in the HIQA report. These points are addressed in quite general terms in the witnesses' statement, but I was hoping that we would be able to go through the six standards with which there was moderate non-compliance, for instance, and that the witnesses...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inspection of the Oberstown Children's Detention Campus: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)
Seán Sherlock: For the record, in respect of the witnesses being cautious in their response, the High Court judgment is a matter of public record.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inspection of the Oberstown Children's Detention Campus: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)
Seán Sherlock: Is the witness saying the issue has been addressed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inspection of the Oberstown Children's Detention Campus: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)
Seán Sherlock: The principle is simple.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inspection of the Oberstown Children's Detention Campus: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)
Seán Sherlock: I thank Mr. Bergin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inspection of the Oberstown Children's Detention Campus: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)
Seán Sherlock: I am happy to help Mr. Bergin to understand where I am coming from.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inspection of the Oberstown Children's Detention Campus: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)
Seán Sherlock: How many reviews of Oberstown have been carried out over the years? How many reviews have there been in the past five years, for example? I will accept an approximate figure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inspection of the Oberstown Children's Detention Campus: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)
Seán Sherlock: I apologise for interrupting. I asked a very specific question. How many reviews have taken place?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inspection of the Oberstown Children's Detention Campus: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)
Seán Sherlock: Okay. That has been over a period of a year. I would say that by any operational standard, if five reviews were carried out internally or externally it would set off some kind of signal or alarm to the effect that action needs to be taken in a short timeframe.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inspection of the Oberstown Children's Detention Campus: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)
Seán Sherlock: I have a final question. Is the management structure flat or hierarchical? Are there any comparable management structures in the public sector? Does it mirror the structure in the Prison Service, the Civil Service or the public service? Is it the case that there is a director and a deputy director with a management team underneath them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inspection of the Oberstown Children's Detention Campus: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)
Seán Sherlock: Mr. Bergin did not answer Deputy Neville's question about the number of agency staff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inspection of the Oberstown Children's Detention Campus: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)
Seán Sherlock: What is the turnover of staff?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inspection of the Oberstown Children's Detention Campus: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)
Seán Sherlock: Okay. I would like to ask about the culture in Oberstown.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inspection of the Oberstown Children's Detention Campus: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)
Seán Sherlock: Yes. I thank the Chairman for his forbearance. I am very grateful. Can an individual employee feel comfortable in addressing an issue that he or she might have directly to Mr. Bergin, or is there a line of command through which such a person has to go?