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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: We are meeting to consider the Revised Estimate for Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs, for the year ending 31 December 2017, which was referred to the committee by an order of the Dáil on 15 December 2016. When the committee has considered the Revised Estimate, this fact will be reported to the Dáil. I welcome the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, and...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister. Programme A relates to the children and family support programme to provide and improve the existing service delivery arrangements to protect and support the welfare of children, young people and families, including the oversight of the Children and Family Agency.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: A comprehensive series of questions has been asked.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Deputy Jan O'Sullivan has not commented yet so I shall give her an opportunity to do so.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: No. We are discussing programme A.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her presentation. I do not wish to overlap everything that has been said. The Minister mentioned the retention of staff.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Has Tusla tried to recruit expert staff? I mean staff who can head up investigations into historical cases. There are 5,000 historical cases but an ordinary person cannot work in such a department. Has funding been set aside to bring back people with relevant experience, who can manage teams, demonstrate leadership, give direction and deal with historical cases? The CEO of Tusla was in...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: It would be remiss of me not to ask the Minister a question on family resource centres. Has the Department encouraged Tusla to recruit more development workers for family resource centres thus providing early social care intervention? The initiative would remove an awful lot of pressure from many social care workers. We do not have 109 development workers. Are there plans to recruit some?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Some weeks ago I tabled a parliamentary question on the breakdown of all groupings that received funding under the heading youth and young people. It was an unusual question. I wanted to see how funding is distributed across the country. That was the nature of the question. I do not expect the Minister to answer the question today. Can she give me a commitment that in future she will...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: How is it broken down?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Exactly. I will follow through to see how it is spread throughout the country and whether if it is hitting all corners of the island.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: My question is similar to Deputy O'Sullivan, in that it relates to the commission of investigation. What will happen if more money is required? This may not be relevant to the Minister but it relates to the draft policy of 2014 from Tusla on procedures of governance as applied to historical cases and everything else. When will it become policy? In the past month it was taken from the...

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to Disability Service in the South East and Related Matters): Motion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister of State for bringing this commission of investigation before the House. I will be supporting it, along with my colleagues. However, I do have concerns. I believe certain aspects of what has been put before us need to be looked into. I understand timelines. I understand the goals of the interim six month review. Grace needs answers. Grace's family needs answers....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of Childcare (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Never before did we feel such weight as Oireachtas committee members as this morning in respect of the revelations of the past month. The Bill is very welcome. Along with other members, I have been looking for it to come before us for some time. However long it takes us to get it right, we now need to do so - to get this Bill right in its...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Staff (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 75. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional CAMHS personnel which each CHO plans to recruit in 2017 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12124/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Legislation (7 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 108. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, following the Taoiseach's commitment on 14 December 2016 that he would make the gambling control Bill a priority, she will confirm that her Department has been provided sufficient resources to complete the task of writing the Bill; the progress of the Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11466/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Legislation (7 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 109. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has identified the individual pressing areas of concern regarding gambling legislation that she plans to address by way of separate legislative matters ahead of the gambling control Bill, as raised in Dáil Éireann on 16 December 2016; if so, if she will highlight such areas; and the effect this will have on the ultimate...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Legislation (7 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 110. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason she intends on prioritising certain areas of gambling legislation by way of separate legislative matters in Q1 2017, ahead of the full gambling control Bill, particularly if she plans to bring forward the main gambling control Bill for Government approval and publication later in 2017. [11468/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Legislation (7 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 111. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure that the gambling control Bill will be published in 2017, in line with commitments made by her in Dáil Éireann on 24 January 2017 that it would be brought forward for Government approval and publication in 2017; and the specific measures she envisages as hindering its final drafting. [11469/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (7 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 522. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of the distribution of funding for home care packages, which will be divided between hospital and community sectors under the supervision of the head of social care with the responsibility for administering the funds for Galway city and county. [11470/17]