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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: However, by the end of the 300 projects it will have taken ten years to see it through to fruition.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: We need to manage people's expectations, which is why I am clarifying it with the Minister of State today. People who have had water coming in their front door or their business destroyed need to know the timeframe for this. The idea behind appearing before the Committee of Public Accounts is to identify timeframes and manage people's expectations today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I come back to funding. Based on the report the Minister of State read to us this morning, €19 million has been spent in the year to date after eight months. Are we on target to have the full budget of €80 million spent on capital projects this year? The Minister of State spoke earlier about the Wild Atlantic Way and Ireland's Ancient East. I would like to think that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: That is very welcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: Surely not in an emergency.

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: Like my colleagues, I welcome the Bill. One aspect of it that I wish to discuss is the provision relating to road safety measures and speed limits, as the previous speaker has discussed. I come from a council background and I understand the origin of this provision in Jake's law. I have read a great deal about it. We were seeking to have the 20 kp/h limit established in residential areas....

Topical Issue Debate: Cereal Sector (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: To follow on from Deputy Fitzmaurice, there is a crisis and people are panicking. It was welcome that the Minister of State, Deputy McEntee, was in the House because the farmers' wives are panicking and they are worried about what they are about to head into for the winter, given they feel their husbands are bottling it all up. A few weeks ago on www.thatsfarming.com, Claire and John Daly...

Topical Issue Debate: Cereal Sector (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I ask that it be noted in the Official Report that the Minister did not arrive at the appropriate time and that Deputy Fitzmaurice and I were left waiting. It is 3.40 p.m. and all the other matters have been discussed.

Topical Issue Debate: Cereal Sector (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: The Minister's absence for 24 minutes has been noted and recorded. While we can all run late, to say I am disappointed is to put it mildly. The Fianna Fáil Party has called on the Government to establish a crisis fund for farmland badly damaged by recent weather. Such a fund would be one element in the effort to address problems being experienced by tillage farmers. As Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Reserve (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 52. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda reservists in the Galway Garda division. [27420/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Policing (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 87. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to increase the number of community gardaí in the Galway Garda division. [27419/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office Data (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 91. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide estimates for the number of children under five years of age in households earning below €47,000 gross income per annum; the number of these households headed by lone parents; and the number of these households that are working more than 25 hours per week. [27601/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office Data (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 92. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide estimates for the number of children under five years of age with parents working more than 25 hours per week, whose primary form of child care is undertaken by a child-minder or a relative and the number whose care is undertaken in a centre-based setting such as a creche. [27602/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 260. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the rationale behind the restriction that parents cannot avail of the early childhood care and education scheme and a CCS fee reduction at the same time; and her views that this discriminates against low income parents who use the CCS scheme for full-time child care. [27600/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Community Childcare Subvention Programme (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 261. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of parents in each individual band, that is A, AJ, B, availing of the community childcare subvention programme reduced weekly fees for child care; and the number of parents receiving rates for full-time services, a part-time service, sessional service or a shorter hours service in each band. [27603/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Community Childcare Subvention Programme (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 262. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of the €16 million provided in budget 2016 to create an additional 3,200 full-time equivalent community childcare subvention, CCS, and community childcare subvention private, CCSP, child care places that has been recouped from the Department or Pobal from providers to date in 2016; and the number of...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Procedures (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: Offside.

Other Questions: Child Protection Services Provision (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 14. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the inadequate central referral system used by social worker services and the absence of a central ICT system. [23056/16]

Other Questions: Child Protection Services Provision (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I ask the Minister to outline her views on the inadequate central referral system used by social work services in the absence of central IT. I take on board that the Minister has answered many of my questions on the absence of a central IT system, but I would like to hear her views on how that is impacting on social workers who are trying to make referrals through a central system.

Other Questions: Child Protection Services Provision (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: The Minister has hit on the kernel of the issue, namely, the lack of communication among social workers. If a child in Galway moves to Dublin, social workers cannot access the relevant data. That is where things are falling down. I welcome what the Minister said earlier. If we have the correct IT system in place in 2017 and money is ring-fenced from capital funding, that will go a long...