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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Homelessness Strategy (19 Dec 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 504. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of times she has met the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government in each quarter since her appointment as Minister in order to discuss the issue of child homelessness. [53975/18]

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Dec 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank my colleague, Deputy John Brassil, for bringing forward the Bill and I welcome the opportunity to speak on it. I do not profess to be a member of a health committee but a couple of weeks ago I sat in the audiovisual room where Deputy Alan Kelly hosted Vicky Phelan and two other ladies, Áine Morgan and Tracey Brennan. To my dismay I could not believe what I was hearing, which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her opening statement and affording us the time to discuss this very serious issue. This was raised last week during oral questions in the House. Since then, I have been doing a fair amount of research and have gone back under the bonnet of it, so to speak. Last week, I said I felt I was working in the dark. I said so because there are pages of recommendations. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Yes. It is the response to the operational review recommendations of 2017.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: It is the overall review of Oberstown since August 2016 when the major incidents took place there. It is the response by the Oberstown children detention campus board of management to recommendations of the operational review, which was launched by Oberstown itself in July 2017. That is how it is referred to and it was signed off on by the chair of the board. I am trying to figure out the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Yes, that is exactly the document. The board produced the document. This is its bible so that when one visits Oberstown, one can see that X, Y and Z have been ticked off. I am sure the culture and atmosphere is part of it but this is its bible to determine whether it is making progress when reporting to the Department with responsibility for youth justice or to the Department of Children...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Yes but I am also trying to understand where they came from. While they are all part of the operational review-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Yes. What came from the external independent review team? Were some from HIQA or were some used from Oberstown's own procedures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: All of them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Not the external reviewers, but the internal reviewers the Minister appointed in March 2017.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: That is Barry Goldson and the other person. They were all from them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: All right. That all came from their report. That is very helpful. It gives me a complete understanding as to what they had highlighted within it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I still go back to recommendation No. 4 on having no females, whereas we have allocated six places for females at Oberstown detention centre. What are we doing to address that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: What are we doing in relation to that? Are we addressing it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: What does the recommendation mean by saying we should no longer have girls there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: The Minister referred to the HIQA report in her opening statement. I have read the report in great detail and have placed pages and pages of my own post-its on it. Something I found glaring was the fact that the percentage of staff with up-to-date training declined between the 2017 inspection and the 2018 inspection. The dip related to child protection and safeguarding. At the time of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: With the height of respect, we are talking about young people and child protection and safeguarding. Is that not something one would want to have at 100%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: That is why I looked at the HIQA report. It is because HIQA had sight of that whereas I do not. I have to use that as my bible at the moment to make a fair assessment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I will be brief. I will return to the questions I asked on the previous occasion. Were any of the recommendations of Goldson and Hardwick, the authors of the report, not included in the 95 recommendations? When I spoke at our previous meeting, I stated that the response of the board of management to the recommendations of the overall operational review 2017 was not just one review but was...