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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Support Bill 2017: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I am not having much luck with my amendments today.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Support Bill 2017: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: This amendment sought to specify the period for which financial support shall be paid in respect of a child identified by a body under the section. The reason I wanted to extend it is that when a child is embedded in a particular environment and some time has passed, they have made friends and key developmental milestones are being reached. They have stability and friendships have been...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Support Bill 2017: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her earlier response. I want to press this issue. I have read section 14 that outlines the provision for vulnerable children and, unfortunately, I must walk away from this provision with a heavy heart because everybody will use this legislation as a guide, particularly in terms of vulnerable families. I am articulating the case for children in difficult family...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Support Bill 2017: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I agree. I thank the Minister. Her opening statement related to this particular section. It is very welcome.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Support Bill 2017: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: We are getting the advice of the Attorney General, which is the best advice one can get.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (27 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps his Department is taking to support children in emergency accommodation; if he has satisfied himself with the efforts to tackle child and family homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8994/18]

Digital Safety Commissioner Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Deputy Ó Laoghaire for bringing forward this Private Members' Bill. Fianna Fáil will be supporting the Bill and would always support an initiative such as this. We will be tabling amendments on Committee Stage. Ireland is completely behind the curve in regulating and legislating for the online and social media sphere. As it stands, the online world is largely...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: He did great.

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I welcome the opportunity to speak to Project Ireland 2040. I hope I will be as good as Deputy Heydon and get in as many of my local areas as possible. It is the second time he did it today. He did it already with the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, when he was discussing family resource centres. I will approach Project Ireland 2040 from two perspectives with the...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: The Minister should wait until he hears me talking about the western rail corridor, phase 2 from Athenry to Tuam and phase 3 to Claremorris. The extension of the western rail corridor could increase passengers and tourism. Why, in the name of God, are we looking for another review of it? There are people in Tuam who are dying to be like people in Waterford. They are dying to put in their...

Maternity Protection (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2018: First Stage (22 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Maternity Protection (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2018: First Stage (22 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide maternity leave for female members of the Houses of the Oireachtas and to provide for related matters. This Bill is being brought forward because, under statutory instruments there is very little clarity regarding the rights of female Members when they wish to take maternity leave. It is not written into the...

Other Questions: Departmental Reports (22 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 10. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of her Department's implementation of the recommendations of a person's (details supplied) audit of the use of section 12; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8996/18]

Other Questions: Departmental Reports (22 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to provide an update on her Department's implementation of the recommendations of Dr. Geoffrey Shannon's audit of the use of section 12; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Other Questions: Departmental Reports (22 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I look forward to hearing that in the Minister's supplementary replies. I am concerned about the roll out of the child protection offices and co-location. In her response I would like her to explain co-location in a little more detail. The issue is about out-of-hours services from Friday evening at 5 p.m. until all services kick in again on a Monday morning. Do social care workers have...

Other Questions: Departmental Reports (22 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I look forward to that because I believe the model the Minister is talking about will provide a lot of protection for the children affected by such abuse. One of the issues identified in Dr. Geoffrey Shannon's report related to repeated incidents at weekends, once a month or every three months concerning alcohol addiction and violence within the home. In such cases, members of An Garda...

Other Questions: Affordable Childcare Scheme (22 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 6. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the considerable negative impact that the affordable child care scheme's proposed reduction of child care subsidy for parents who are not in full-time work or education will have on low-income families and lone-parent households. [8995/18]

Other Questions: Affordable Childcare Scheme (22 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Has the attention of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs been drawn to the considerable negative impact of the proposed reduction in the affordable child care scheme subsidy on parents who are not in full-time work or education, those on low incomes or lone-parent households?

Other Questions: Affordable Childcare Scheme (22 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her reply and for bringing considerable clarity to many of the issues involved. The latter is much appreciated. I intend to focus on one point relating to the Childcare Support Bill. Subsidies will be paid on a 48-week basis. Some child care providers operate on a 52-week basis. Is there scope to change this? Is the Minister planning amendments to provide the...

Other Questions: Affordable Childcare Scheme (22 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I might be able to help the Minister's officials. I tabled amendments to the Childcare Support Bill in recent days on the basis of recommendations from organisations, including Barnardos, to address the 48-week period rather than the 52-week period. I am hopeful of the Minister's support for those amendments. Perhaps when the Bill was being devised, consideration of best practice meant...