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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)

Denise Mitchell: A recent study was done on voluntary care arrangements.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)

Denise Mitchell: What is the witnesses' opinion of the study? It indicates that voluntary arrangements have fewer safeguards and protections for the rights of children and parents. What is the opinion of the witnesses on voluntary care arrangements? Do parents get legal advice? There were parts of the report that were pretty damning of Tusla, indicating a "soft coercion" of parents that if they did not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)

Denise Mitchell: I also hope it would not. Is there a reliance on voluntary care orders within Tusla? It emerged from the report that serious consideration should be given to a time limit on voluntary care arrangements but that does not seem to be the case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)

Denise Mitchell: How long are we talking about? What is the ideal scenario in voluntary care if we are to see reunification of a child and the parents?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)

Denise Mitchell: Mr. Gloster says he has seen it for a long term. I am very concerned if parents are not being given legal advice. That would be a serious issue. That would ring alarm bells for me. Parents might have been suffering from substance abuse who are now on the right track or there could be mental health issues. As an agency, Tusla should give all the supports so that the parents know what is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)

Denise Mitchell: Are the views of a child in a voluntary arrangement taken into account?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (5 Nov 2019)

Denise Mitchell: 221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the recent staffing appeal by a school (details supplied) has been denied. [44508/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (5 Nov 2019)

Denise Mitchell: 673. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a disability supports application management tool for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [45276/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (5 Nov 2019)

Denise Mitchell: 1010. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the persons considered to be competent to conduct a fire risk assessment with regard to the fire and planning requirements for early years services reregistration and change of circumstances process (details supplied). [45246/19]

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Denise Mitchell: To be notified at 6.30 p.m. on the day before that the amendments were out of order shows a total disregard of this committee's members.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Denise Mitchell: I think it does. This House-----

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Denise Mitchell: All parties have worked together on these amendments.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Denise Mitchell: To be notified at 6.30 p.m. on the day before-----

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Denise Mitchell: If that is the way business is done in this House, something is seriously wrong.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Denise Mitchell: I will keep this brief. I am really disappointed the Minister has ruled particularly amendment No. 2 out of order. She gave her reasons for ruling amendment No. 1 out of order and then listed the reasons given for ruling amendment No. 2 out of order. She said that sometimes young children, particularly teenagers, may not want a guardian ad litem. We have covered that in that amendment, so...

Child Maintenance: Motion (22 Oct 2019)

Denise Mitchell: Lone parents make up a substantial demographic in society. There are almost 220,000 lone parent families in the State. Child maintenance contributions are a vital financial support that is necessary to provide children with the best developmental opportunities. The current child maintenance system is not working for lone parents or for children in need of critical financial support. It is...

Road Traffic (Amendment) (Use of Electric Scooters) Bill 2019: Second Stage (16 Oct 2019)

Denise Mitchell: I welcome the opportunity to speak about e-scooters, which have become a common sight on the streets of Dublin. It is important to properly classify these vehicles as their current status, which ranks them closer to cars than bikes, puts them in an impractical legal limbo that has clearly been widely disregarded, given that we often see dozens of them on our streets at a time. Some people...

Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)

Denise Mitchell: The Government's decision not to increase the national minimum wage in budget 2020 was a slap in the face to the 137,000 workers who currently earn the minimum wage. Sinn Féin has long called for progression to a full living wage but the Government's priorities are clear; it does not care about low-paid workers. Sinn Féin has shown how a living wage could be introduced while...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Denise Mitchell: Another year and another Fine Gael budget that is all style and no substance. The Government has shown that it cannot properly budget for our vital public services or give struggling families a break. The good people of the northside, who I have the honour of representing, will not be taken in by the Minister for Finance standing in this Chamber and saying that things are going swimmingly...

Industrial Action by School Secretaries: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Denise Mitchell: No one can question the unique and valued position of the school secretary and our schools cannot function without them. Our education system needs them. I doubt this will be disputed by anybody. Even by just sitting with a child who might have been called to the office to be given bad news or a child who is going home sick, secretaries perform a role that a teacher managing dozens of...