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National Monuments: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I move:“That Dáil Éireann: recognises that the people of Ireland, the Irish diaspora and friends of Ireland everywhere, are looking forward to this significant centenary year of the 1916 Easter Rising and the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, a pivotal event in our history; acknowledges the dedication of the concerned relatives of the 1916 leaders, and those who have...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Chairman, I was going to say that was astonishing, but it is not. In some ways it is nearly par for the course in terms of the slow response rate of certain Departments and agencies to this committee. I have had correspondence from Ms Mary Farrell on behalf of the families of the wards of court. They are extremely disappointed, frustrated and angry at this stage that not alone is the...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will take up that line of questioning, but first, I ask Mr. O'Brien to set out for the committee the term over which this home was a foster home, the financial arrangement between the State and the foster home, and the moneys that were handed over.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: What is that?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: What happened to her disability allowance? Did it go to the home?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Once she turned 18.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Would that payment have been made directly from the State to the foster parents?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: What happened after that? That was the state of play until-----

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am aware of that.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: So, whether directly or through an intermediary, those payments were made in respect of Grace to the home, which - whatever its official status was - was no longer a foster home. In other words, there was a funding stream from the State directly into this place.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Was that the case also in respect of Ann?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, no, no. Please, let us keep it to the point. Let us talk about Ann specifically. What State moneys went to this home for her care? I understand she was residing at home and was in this place at weekends. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is Mr. Healy saying she stayed in this place in a part-time capacity and no money changed hands, that she stayed there free gratis?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let us just roll the tape back and talk a little about Ann. The witnesses have told us in their opening statement that Ann was born in 1980. We are told contact with the foster family commenced when she was 12 years old, which would have been 1992.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: As it happens, that is the same year in which the South Eastern Health Board was made aware of concerns around this particular foster home. The dates tally. When Mr. Healy says contact with the foster family began at that point, was it a part-time arrangement even then, when Ann was 12?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will Mr. Healy give me a "Yes" or "No" answer? Was it a part-time arrangement?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: In respect of that part-time arrangement, presumably moneys were handed over for Ann's weekend stays?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Why is Mr. Healy not clear? He has told us it was a foster home officially until 1995.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Why does the HSE have no records in regard to it?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Healy is telling us this child was placed, albeit on a part-time basis, at the age of 12, in what was still officially a foster home in the very year concerns about that place were brought to the attention of the authorities. He is also telling us he does not know and cannot tell us what the financial arrangement was and what, if any, State money or subsidies were paid to this place in...