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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...long hours. Teachers in private school enterprises are paid by the Department of Education and Skills. Should the people working in the early years sector not similarly come under the auspices of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs? The Big Start campaign is on behalf of these people, who are not being paid anywhere near what they deserve, considering the qualifications they...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...will eventually be passed on to the parents. This is all part of the knock-on effect of that. When we had the Department of Health here, I asked about a matter, and I want to ask the Department of Children and Youth Affairs too since it is also a part of this. Money was lost when moving the offices from Mespil Road to Miesian Plaza. There was a delay in the Department of Children and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (11 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: 457. To ask the Minister for Health if the amount awarded through the HSE optical voucher differs for children in County Meath compared with other counties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23399/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (11 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: 678. To ask the Minister for Health if there are incidents in which the HSE in conjunction with an organisation (details supplied) provide speech and language therapy for children over six years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24168/19]

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Shane Cassells: ..., Peter Tyndall, had previously raised the question of the points system that exists for the purchase of food for families and babies and the cost of baby food as well as what families need to raise children. That had been previously raised by the Ombudsman. That is not a political charge; it was raised by the Ombudsman. I take the view these are fair points to make given the amount of...

Autism Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...and accessibility, These words had particular meaning for me this week when I was contacted by a mother in Navan whose son was attending Ard Rí community national school, the same school my three children attend. She said to me her son was doing well but that the battle to obtain support was unreal, including repeated refusals to give him an SNA. She is concerned about his...

Business Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Mar 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...from €2,500 when she opened six years ago to approximately €16,500 and now she cannot even get a quote because of the way insurance companies consider the market in this country. Some 20,000 children went through her centre without incident last year. Deputy Kelleher put it best when he spoke about the pace at which we are attempting to tackle this issue. Everyone accepts...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (13 Mar 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...for over 42 years and caters for nearly 90 students from all across counties Meath, Cavan, Louth and Dublin. This week I met parents of students from Oldcastle in north County Meath, besides the Cavan border, whose children must get up at 6 a.m. to travel to this school. Some 60 km away in Ballinabrackey, at the far end of the county where one can puck a ball into Offaly, there are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (13 Mar 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...when the new school campus was announced was amazing. The frustration now is that another generation of students will go through it and not see the realisation of that dream. The parents who had children in the school are now fighting for the current generation because these children deserve the best. I know the Minister of State, due to his brief, will appreciate that and back those...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (14 Feb 2019)

Shane Cassells: 250. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an additional year will be granted under the early childhood care and education scheme to a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7650/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Provision (13 Feb 2019)

Shane Cassells: 57. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which she will ensure that services will be able to offer the affordable childcare scheme and provide sufficient childcare places if they are being penalised should parents not take up the full amount of hours requested on a weekly basis and thus their sustainability is brought into question; and if she will make a statement on...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Feb 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...? I have not. I know what a significant and seismic shift it was for people living in this state to make that change to the Constitution. People, North and South, bought into it in order that the children who come to the Houses of the Oireachtas on school tours would not have to listen to weekly reports on news bulletins on RTÉ and the BBC on people being blown to smithereens. Let...

Juvenile Crime: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...of the his contribution to the debate and the motion. The Deputy referred to the youth diversion programme and the 158,521 youth referrals that the review examined relating to 57,386 individual children. Those figures should shock many people. When it comes to the issue of juvenile crime and the pursuing those who perpetrate it through the criminal justice system, we have had...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Reports (6 Dec 2018)

Shane Cassells: 238. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number, date of publication and details of post-enactment reports published by her Department since March 2011, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51367/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Legislative Measures (6 Dec 2018)

Shane Cassells: 239. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of Acts passed since March 2011 that her Department is responsible for; the date each act was signed into law in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51383/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (28 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status and location of the acquisition of a site for the development of a school (details supplied); and when it is anticipated that children can move from a school made of prefabs to a purpose built school. [49498/18]

Local Government Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: ...even more passion by Meath County Council and our inhabitants who sought to stay within the royal county. Leaving aside the issues of this land grab that concern the heartfelt desire for one's children to play for a good footballing county, what was really at play here was the key issue of resources. Officials from Louth County Council gazed across the border into County Meath and saw...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Staff (7 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: 36. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether there is a staffing crisis in the early years sector; the steps she is taking to combat same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45932/18]

Water Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: ...will say that it is not breaking any laws and that the sewage has been diluted by heavy rain. This time, there was no rain so the waste was lodging on the riverbed and along the river. There were children paddling in the water downstream from where this waste was. The issues outlined in this motion are important and need to be addressed, not just in rural Ireland but in urban Ireland...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: I welcome the witnesses. I will start with chapter 6 of the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Miesian Plaza offices for the Departments of Health and Children and Youth Affairs. The answers thus far have been insightful. These offices lay vacant for 18 months at a cost of €11 million. It was far from a good deal overall. That is not even with the basin point in...