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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: I will echo what my colleagues have said. It is unusual for three Opposition Deputies to work together and submit amendments. We obviously felt strongly on this issue, given that we submitted three joint amendments. We did so because we believed we would be facilitating, supporting and strengthening the Bill. Ruling them out of order will leave the Bill weak, and the people who will be...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: I am the same.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: That is not quite-----

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: That is what I was going to ask.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: Can I have a moment?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: I appreciate that. We need to go back to where we started because this is going to keep going around in a circle. We feel passionate about the amendments we put in and we are very hurt that they were thrown out at 6.30 p.m. We are very irate that we did not have the understanding behind it and are only hearing it now. We are also very irate that we do not have the right to respond. Maybe...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: Why, then, do we have amendments?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: Do we just walk away and move on to Report Stage?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: I apologise for being a new Deputy and not understanding it all perfectly.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: There are not too many things that we have brought through in this room, other than the affordable childcare scheme.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: The Chairman did not say that at the start.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: The Chairman will have to forgive me, too, for coming in.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: It is the role of the Chair to give us the rules in respect of proceedings.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: I apologise for coming in but I work to what I am told.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: Yes.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: I move amendment No. 6: In page 8, to delete line 3 and substitute the following: “interests of the child, and (c) to represent the child’s interests in the proceedings to which the guardian ad litem has been appointed.”. This is self explanatory and deals with the interests of the child. The guardian ad litemBill is about the status of the child in proceedings.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: Chairman, we accept the point the Minister has made and therefore we will withdraw the amendment.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: I concur with Deputy Funchion on that. When we discussed it in the Chamber the last time, I spoke strongly about the role of the witness, the definition of the witness, that the guardian would only be called once, and that he or she would then be asked to leave the proceedings. We all know that cases in family courts or any courts can take a long time. It is not over in just one sitting...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: I agree with Deputy Sherlock that the form of words is important. We need a form of words that copper-fastens the position for a child with disabilities who may be non-verbal. We also need to into consideration that such a child needs to be party to proceedings and I have not heard that come through. We are talking in the round here about people who are able to articulate but we must also...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: How can we make that possibility the reality? That is the importance of the form of words.