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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: How many sources or points did the commission have to go to in order to get the data?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: There is one HSE and one human resource, HR, department that govern it all but we had to go to 40 different sources to see where the gaps were in recruitment and filling up positions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: That is shocking. The witnesses spoke about the embargo being possibly one of the worst things that had happened. The worst thing that I am seeing today, however, is that we do not have a central base for knowing exactly where the gaps in the system are. We should not be focusing on the embargo, but rather on the management skill sets to identify where we need people to work in the various...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: How many are being recruited directly from the nursing schools? I know that in Limerick there was a high uptake among all the nursing staff who were approached. I wonder in all the various nursing schools where is it being managed and how did the commission find the data in its report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: That is the word - "action". We were discussing the current professional recruiting of nurses, which was a part of what was announced in the past 18 months. When this review was being done how many of the nursing schools were approached, and how much of it was actioned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: We focused a lot on the negative effect of the embargo, which I take on board. This was a positive action introduced in the past 18 months, and I would like to know if it was measured as part of the commission. We are going back to 40 different sources.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I have a number of questions for all the witnesses. I will start with the witnesses from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. The witnesses spoke at length about early childhood care and education, ECCE. My question is about full-time versus the three hours and the fact that only 30% of children attend crèches on a full-time...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Weighing. We have to be able to measure children. What is the view of the Department in that regard? We have met primary and post-primary teachers and they all have a particular view on weighing children at school. I have asked the same question of everybody. I would like to know the Department's view on measuring children. I am not only referring to weight, but to height and everything...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: It has not been explored?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Dr. Brooks and Ms O'Flaherty for their replies. There are 4,500 crèches registered for the ECCE scheme and €1 million is spent on capital funding for outdoor spaces, which works out at €222 per facility. I know that is not how the money is divided but €1 million is not nearly enough. Capacity is an issue and outdoor spaces are being used to increase...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: That is very welcome. If Ms O'Flaherty does not mind, I will follow up with her on that particular point. Would every first and second class in the country have participated, was it a snap view or how many schools were involved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: If Ms O'Flaherty does not mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Does Ms O'Flaherty see where I would love to see it in the early childhood setting, and if the Department were to do it again at the seven-year mark and again later on, the Department would be gathering the data? Ms O'Flaherty herself knows that it is in later years that we will reap the rewards.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: And keep it as normal as possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: The norm I talk about is the setting. The other representatives we had in, for example, from the various teaching unions, stated they felt the stigmatisation, the bullying aspect and all of that. I believe that if the normalisation starts at the early intervention years, it is just normal. It is part of the data. It is the collection of it. It is no different. We are one of the few...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Is that every week of the 38 weeks in the year or is it diluted by being part of the SPHE and CPHE so that it works out being for a quarter of the year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: How is recruitment and retention of PE teachers? Is there a shortage at present?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: There was reference to sports halls and the witnesses spoke eloquently about the €8.4 billion under the NDP. If we were to link on from the early years, primary and post-primary, many of the schools on the western seaboard do not have gym facilities that we talk about. I talk about the leaking roof in my school in Portumna, but it is classroom spaces we are supposed to be talking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: How much funding is left aside every year for older schools that need to make refurbishments solely in sports halls or outdoor space areas? Up the road from me, Tynagh national school had lumps of stone in its field, as in its safe play area, and it could not get it included under the minor works scheme. I am trying to figure out where physical activity and safety are balanced against...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: The latter half of the NDP is 2027.