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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)
Ciara Conway: I invite Dr. Murphy to respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)
Ciara Conway: We have not heard from Dr. Brinkley who may wish to contribute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)
Ciara Conway: Ms Ball had indicated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)
Ciara Conway: I call our rapporteur, Deputy Fitzpatrick.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)
Ciara Conway: The next speaker is Deputy McLellan. I thank her for her patience.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)
Ciara Conway: I will take all the speakers now, to be fair to everybody who is here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)
Ciara Conway: The final speaker in this section is Senator John Crown.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)
Ciara Conway: Is Dr. Murphy happy to answer those questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)
Ciara Conway: If Dr. Murphy wants to do it by group, that is fine, or if there are key themes or particular questions she wishes to answer first, please do so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)
Ciara Conway: We will now take questions from committee members.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)
Ciara Conway: This is the final meeting in a series of meetings the joint committee has convened on the issue of tackling childhood obesity. It is intended that in the next week or two the joint committee will consider adopting a report on this matter under the stewardship of Deputy Peter Fitzpatrick who has kindly volunteered to be the rapporteur for the committee on this subject. In this regard, I...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Issues (12 Jun 2013)
Ciara Conway: 202. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Reception and Integration Agency’s child protection policy is based on centre staff who are not RIA employees relaying a concern to the designated child protection staff member rather than the families communicating their concerns directly to the Health Service Executive or an...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Issues (12 Jun 2013)
Ciara Conway: 203. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has be drawn to the circumstances whereby the vast majority of parents in direct provision do not know their children’s rights and therefore do not know when their rights are violated in accordance with Children First guidelines and that they are afraid to make referrals because they may face repercussions such as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care Facilities and Inspections: Discussion (11 Jun 2013)
Ciara Conway: By way of clarification, a complaint is not a child protection and welfare notification.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care Facilities and Inspections: Discussion (11 Jun 2013)
Ciara Conway: Has the HSE received a child protection welfare notification from RTE?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care Facilities and Inspections: Discussion (11 Jun 2013)
Ciara Conway: I thank the Minister and the other witnesses for attending. I wish to pick up on a number of points in the presentation of Early Childhood Ireland. While this meeting is taking place because of what we saw happening in preschools throughout the country, are people aware that the after-school sector that covers children aged four, five and six is completely unregulated and uninspected, and...
- Topical Issue Debate: Crèche Inspections (29 May 2013)
Ciara Conway: We should not cause panic among parents and as a parent of a young child I understand how much we rely on child care. I contacted my local crèche this morning in Dungarvan just to say I was thinking of the workers there. It has been a very difficult day for them, and these people are very committed to their job and giving care and attention to children on a daily basis. Most in the...
- Topical Issue Debate: Crèche Inspections (29 May 2013)
Ciara Conway: Hear, hear.
- Topical Issue Debate: Crèche Inspections (29 May 2013)
Ciara Conway: This is not the first time I have raised the issue of the provision of quality child care places with the Minister because what she has been faced with is a legacy of an approach by previous Governments where child care was merely a tax incentive for builders to provide crèches, and no more than that. Child care places were seen as no more than a labour activation measure for women....
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Issues (29 May 2013)
Ciara Conway: 155. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there appears to be no representation for commercial fishermen on the board of the IFI; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a perception amongst commercial fishermen that the board is weighted towards anglers; his views on the process of appointments...