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Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 57:In page 39, lines 19 and 20, to delete "as guardian of the child," and substitute "as a guardian of the child, and".

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 58:In page 39, to delete lines 21 to 23.

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 59:In page 39, line 24, to delete "(d) have" and substitute "(c) have".

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I thank Deputies for their input and the points they made. In respect of appropriate family courts, mediation and contact centres, we have had some very good pilot projects lately relating to contact centres where parents who have separated but who are in dispute about the children can be helped to work through the many issues. This is preferable to these disputes being in court. It is...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 48:In page 37, line 15, to delete “months,” and substitute “months occurring after the date on which this subsection comes into operation,”.

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I know.

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: That is precisely why I am dealing with this issue and working with the Department of Social Protection to ensure that information is given.

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am not putting it into legislation, but it will be done by way of administrative response from the Department of Social Protection. I have already had discussions with the Department and it will provide that information, just as information is provided stating that a birth must be registered within three months and where that can be done. All new parents find out about that and register...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: Between 5% and 10%. That is where the mother disagrees, but the majority of applications are granted. That is an estimate. It is hard to get that figure. For decades courts have made decisions on guardianship, and it is up to the person, just as in the case of a will, to take possession of what we might call the guardianship certificate. Solicitors may have a copy but there is no...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: This is a complex debate, as I have acknowledged from the beginning. The issue is definitely evolving, as we can see from the approach I have taken in the Bill to extend automatic rights to unmarried fathers where they have been living with the mother for a time. There were a number of questions concerning cohabitation. The Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I thank Deputies for their contributions on this topic, which was a key part of the discussion on Second Stage. As I said, I have taken action in a number of the amendments I tabled to make it easier for fathers to get information on the statutory declaration which is, in effect, the mechanism by which non-marital fathers can assert their guardianship rights at the current time. We know...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: Are they up?

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: They are all being taken together.

Membership of Committees: Motion (12 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move:That Deputy Derek Keating be discharged from the Select Committee on Education and Social Protection and that Deputy Noel Harrington be appointed in substitution for him. That Deputy Noel Harrington be appointed to the Select sub-Committee on Education and Skills.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (12 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move:That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 25th September, 2014, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those next set down to the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence:Minister for Defence...

Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund): Motion (12 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the following Order in draft:Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2015,copies of which have been laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 19th February, 2015.

Road Traffic (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: First Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: No.

Protection of the Environment (Criminal Activity) (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: No.

Multi-Unit Developments (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: No.

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (12 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: It is the intention that as much information as possible will be made available by the registrar regarding the statutory declaration. The information deficit around the statutory declaration and guardianship rights, particularly for fathers but for mothers also, is a big issue and I have started to address it in this legislation.