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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: 4. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs how he and Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, are protecting the welfare of children sleeping in emergency homeless accommodation; and the care and in-reach plans being put in place for children who are in emergency accommodation. [3397/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: This question follows on from the previous one and asks the Minister how he and the Child and Family Agency, Tusla, are protecting the welfare of children who are sleeping in emergency homeless accommodation. What plans have they put in place to support these children and families, and will the Minister update the House on the matter?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: The Minister is right in one thing: the best place for a child is in his or her home, but it is a damning indictment on his Government that 1,600 children are not residing in their homes; they are residing in emergency accommodation, and that is because of policies that this Government has pursued. I was truly shocked by the Minister's reply to a parliamentary question I submitted where he...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: I remind the Minister that in 2013 a total of 20 families were becoming homeless in Dublin every month. In the last few months that has tripled to more than 60 families becoming homeless every month. Maybe I was living in a different universe, but I believe this Government was in power in 2013, and it certainly was in power in the last few months. I remind the Minister that in the four...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: I do not believe the Government is giving this issue the priority it deserves. We saw the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, last night out canvassing in his home town of Tipperary-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: -----when there was an important debate in this House on supporting families who are homeless, and in particular the 1,600 children who are homeless today.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: The Minister must not have read the banking inquiry report.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: Read the banking inquiry report, Minister.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: There was no building on floodplains-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: It is the Minister's party that has been in power on the local authorities for the last ten years.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: Yes, in Kildare.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: No, we did not.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: The facts speak for themselves, Deputy.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: It would be the first time the Minister ever answered the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: No, there is not.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: The Minister should watch this space in September.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: 1. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs under the terms of the early childhood care and education scheme, if he will ensure that preschool services will be able to extend the provision they offer, given their concerns at their unsustainability under the 38-week capitation system; the negotiations or discussions he has had with the preschool sector regarding the capacity within...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: Will the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs give an update on the negotiations or discussions he has had with the preschool sector regarding capacity within preschools to handle the extension to the preschool year commencing in September 2016? Has he identified any gaps in capacity? If so, where are those gaps and how does he intend to alleviate them?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: It would have been more prudent had the Minister consulted with the sector prior to making the announcement. From my engagement with the sector, I am getting the impression there are significant concerns that there will not be sufficient capacity. In a reply to a parliamentary question I put down last year, the Minister stated he identified approximately 10,000 vacant places across the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: To be fair, I do not think the Minister gets it. He seems to be relying on the hope that more people will apply to provide the service in September. We are only seven months away from September. Will he tell us exactly how many spaces are available now? He has not answered that yet. What scheme has the Minister put in place to ensure there will be capacity if existing services need to...