Results 801-820 of 2,723 for speaker:Barry Andrews

Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: We will also develop a panel, both internal and external, with appropriately skilled professionals to undertake investigations. In all cases of serious incidents or deaths of children in care or in detention, HIQA will review the initial circumstances of the case and how the HSE set about its investigation. That is the correct response to any such tragic cases in the future.

Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: No, HIQA is informed.

Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I have answered the Deputy.

Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: That is correct.

Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: This is not a party political issue. The Deputy has said so herself, yet she is descending into that type of play. Let us be constructive about this.

Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I am prepared to take on board constructive recommendations from the Opposition, but there is no point in being party political.

Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: Deputies opposite are being overly party political.

Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: With respect to Members, I am trying to answer the question put to me by Deputy Ó Caoláin on whether there has been involvement by the Garda Síochána and the Ombudsman for Children. The latter is involved in only one case, where a complaint was made in regard to an individual by a family member of the person who died. In regard to the Garda Síochána, the Children First guidelines,...

Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I welcome the opportunity to address the House this evening on this important subject. I apologise to the House that I do not have a written speech to share with Members. I hope they understand this is due to the short period of time I have had to prepare for this debate. The death of any child in care is a tragedy, particularly when interventions that would be carried out in normal...

Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: These are cases in which no further action is expected. The second of these was an overdose in 2000, for which, again, no review was conducted. The third was an overdose in 2005. The details of the latter two cases were sent to HIQA in July 2009 to allow the authority to inform the guidance it has prepared so that both the HSE and the Irish Youth Justice Service can properly carry out...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: This did not concern Deputy Shatter yesterday.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: He released sensitive details. Moreover, he issued the name in the details of a parliamentary question he tabled.

Services for People with Disabilities. (4 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I will be taking this Adjournment matter on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Health and Children. I thank Deputies Terence Flanagan and Reilly for raising this matter and am pleased to take this opportunity to outline the position in respect of St. Joseph's Intellectual Disability Services, which are located on the campus of St. Ita's Hospital, Portrane, County Dublin. As the...

Local Authority Housing. (4 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I thank Deputy Wall for raising this important matter. First, it is important to put on record once more that the Government is extremely conscious of the high value Irish people place on home ownership. The Government has brought forward a range of measures to support and protect families having difficulties with their home mortgage payments. The single most important advice for any...

Local Authority Housing. (4 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: Similarly, despite worsening economic conditions generally, repossession remains extremely rare for local authority borrowers, with only three repossessions carried out by local authorities last year. Local authority borrowers have received considerable protection from the worst effects of the downturn in terms of their borrowing costs. The effective rate for borrowers has come down by 3%...

Planning Issues. (4 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I thank Deputy Noel Ahern for raising the matter of regularisation certificates and reassure him that there is no dispute between the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and local authorities in this regard. In terms of the construction of new buildings, including apartment blocks and dwellings, and extensions to, material alterations of and certain changes of use of...

Planning Issues. (4 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: The Deputy should have carried out reforms while he was there.

Special Educational Needs. (4 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I am replying to this Adjournment matter on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe. I thank the Deputy for raising this issue as it gives me an opportunity to clarify the position in relation to the matter raised by him. An important feature of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 was the setting up of the National...

Written Answers — Preschool Services: Preschool Services (4 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I have responsibility for implementation of the free Pre-School Year in Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) scheme which was introduced in January of this year. Pre-school services participating in the ECCE scheme were required to make a return to my Office by the end of January 2010, giving details of qualifying children attending. When processing of these returns is finalised,...

Child Abuse. (3 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I am informed by the Health Service Executive that it expects to publish the report of the independent inquiry into the Roscommon abuse case in the coming weeks. The report into the death of Kelly Fitzgerald, published in 1995, contained in excess of 40 recommendations. Those recommendations were presented to the then Western Health Board and adopted in full by it. Several of the report's...