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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 40 – Department of Children and Youth Affairs (5 Oct 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: The Minister referred to subsidised care for children aged nine to 36 months. How is she seeking to deliver that? Has she submitted it as one of her requirements in the budget discussions? In regard to the provision of a second year under the early childhood care and education scheme, I am receiving many calls from parents of children with disabilities who have queries in this regard....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 40 – Department of Children and Youth Affairs (5 Oct 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: Can I ask a further question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 40 – Department of Children and Youth Affairs (5 Oct 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: The figure for the CCS programme is 3,200. Is that the number of places available?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 40 – Department of Children and Youth Affairs (5 Oct 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: What is the exact number? Is it 8,000 or 8,000 plus 3,200?

Criminal Justice (Aggravation by Prejudice) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill before this evening and I compliment my two colleagues, Deputies O'Loughlin and Murphy O'Mahony, for bringing it forward. This Bill essentially seeks to tackle hate crime in an effective and robust manner. It seeks to ensure that the option is open to the Garda and the Director of Public Prosecutions to pursue a hate crime conviction should...

Criminal Justice (Aggravation by Prejudice) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Deputy O'Brien.

Criminal Justice (Aggravation by Prejudice) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: With respect-----

Criminal Justice (Aggravation by Prejudice) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: -----what I am trying to say is the Bill that the Deputies have brought before the House is a positive step in the right direction of addressing hate crime. It is not a perfect Bill but I hope it will be by the time we all work together on it at Committee Stage. I hope Deputy Jonathan O'Brien and his party will come along with us to bring it through to Committee Stage. We owe it to 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: This is not a committee in which I normally sit but Deputy Michael McGrath asked me to step in. Coming from east Galway and, with the Minister of State, representing the people of south Galway while living on the banks of the Shannon, I know how Storm Desmond on 9 December 2015 left a hand of destruction not for the first, but rather a second time in five years, in the area. I welcome all...

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: It is a question I asked at all the public consultations.

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: It is on callow land.

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 have secondary and national schools, as well as industry. It is bigger than Portumna just over the bridge. I could not understand if when we noticed it was off the study, it could not have been put back on.

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 spoke to the engineering staff on the site at all times.

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 will get back to the locations issue, as it was a problem in south Galway. The maps for Gort and Kinvarra were on display in Oranmore, although they were folded. There was no map in Oranmore for Kinvarra and it could only be seen on a laptop. It could not be accessed through the wall displays. There was a display of a farmyard from south Galway with Office of Public Works branding and...

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....