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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Denise Mitchell: Where are the 58 inspectors situated? Are there more inspectors in Dublin than in Donegal?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Denise Mitchell: Some 58 members of staff carry out inspections.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Denise Mitchell: We have also been encouraging people to provide mandated reports. Let us suppose somebody in a crèche, or an outsider such as a parent, makes a report to Tusla. How is that report processed? How long does it take? What is the timeline within which these concerns are addressed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Denise Mitchell: I refer to concerns about a facility. Can Mr. Quinlan outline what child protection-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Denise Mitchell: It is important that people know there is a difference.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Denise Mitchell: That is where we can get a bit conflicted. Let us say that I am a parent who has contacted Tusla with concerns about the service provided in a crèche or facility. We have seen it; I refer to problems such as poor food or children not being stimulated. How soon will those concerns be addressed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Denise Mitchell: Let us say an offender is constantly in breach of the regulations we are talking about. Are any mechanisms in place to allow the Department and Tusla to recoup any funding this facility has been given?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Denise Mitchell: I want to come back to Tusla and its opening statement on information on actions taken prior to the RTÉ broadcast. Tusla said the following, "Hyde and Seek, Tolka Road, has been subject to a significant level of regulatory enforcement activity and referrals have been made to Tusla’s child protection and welfare services." I am concerned about that. When did that happen? I know...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Denise Mitchell: I know, I do not want specifics but have the parents been notified?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Denise Mitchell: I get that Tusla tries to identify the child but this has to be looked at from the parents' perspective. We are putting our must valued possessions into these creches. This is the bit I find alarming, and I am not being disrespectful to anyone. As a parent, I put my priceless possession into a creche and something is happening and Tusla has concerns about something going on in that creche...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Denise Mitchell: I know there is due process but that is one's child. That is a parent's child and in many cases, the parents, particularly in Dublin, are paying the equivalent of mortgages to some of these services so we have a right to know. Some are paying more than they pay for their mortgages so we have a right to know what is going on with our children.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Denise Mitchell: We are all in agreement here. The message we have to get out is that parents have to be informed. We cannot keep hiding information. This is what happens around-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Denise Mitchell: Nobody wants that. Nobody is out to prejudice a case or anything else but where there are concerns around the welfare of one's child, such as when one's child is eating 70 cent noodles and drinking diluted water, as a parent I have a right to know because according to the Department's guidelines, children have to have hot meals. Children have rights so let us be clear that parents are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Denise Mitchell: We are not criticising.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Denise Mitchell: A lot of issues been covered earlier, but I want to get back to the point about parents. We all know that there has been a lot of communication from parents involved with these creches and they have emailed a lot of questions to every member of this committee asking that they be posed to the witnesses. Tusla mentioned earlier that a phone line had been set up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Denise Mitchell: On the first number Ms McDonnell called out-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Denise Mitchell: During what times is that manned?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Abuse Reports (10 Jul 2019)
Denise Mitchell: 56. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is satisfied with the progress made within Tusla further to the report of the national review panel, NRP, of December 2018 into the abuse of children in care in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29681/19]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Abuse Reports (10 Jul 2019)
Denise Mitchell: Is the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs satisfied with the progress made within Tusla in light of the NRP report of December 2018 into the abuse of children in care in Galway?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Abuse Reports (10 Jul 2019)
Denise Mitchell: I thank the Minister for her response. We have to recognise the progress that has been made since this horrific case. One of the recommendations of the review panel related to the response to the allegations of abuse and the need for an integrated response. The report notes that the Department is piloting an integrated model for investigation, assessment and management of child sexual...