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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Tusla (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Colm Burke and I regard this as small money in the big picture but it is falling between the cracks. I appreciate Mr. Jeyes’ remarks but there are young men and women who would otherwise be in different places and not in school being facilitated. It is an awful shame that all the State organisations and Departments cannot intervene and do something about it because it is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Tusla (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: To be fair, it is not your fault either. I do not want you to think that we are blaming you because we are not. That said, it is frustrating when one sees great work being done, as described by Mr. Jeyes-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Tusla (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I am sorry to interrupt but a vote has been called in the Dáil. We will have to wrap up quickly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Tusla (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Are there any plans to reactivate the senior social work practitioner posts?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Tusla (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Good.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Tusla (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I am conscious of the vote and would ask Deputies to be brief.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Tusla (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We must suspend now because of the vote.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Tusla (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: He will provide the Deputy with a written reply. I thank Mr. McBride, Mr. Smyth, Mr. Quinlan and Ms Kane for being here. I also thank Mr. Jeyes for being here and for his co-operation and courtesy. I wish him well in his new role. I wish the Child and Family Agency well and thank all of its staff across the country for their Trojan work. I wish everyone a peaceful Christmas and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank members for their participation in this morning's meeting. We passed on Deputy Sandra McLellan's apologies for the first part of the meeting and Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has asked us to convey his apologies for the second part. The second session is a meeting with the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy James Reilly, who is joined from the Department...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Dr. Lynch intimated to me before the meeting that there was a clash in the schedule and we have facilitated a change, but he will have to leave us at approximately 3.30 p.m. Members have been given a copy of the Minister's speech and the questions for the quarterly meeting have been given out. By virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister and hope he will not take the road less travelled.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I am sorry to interrupt Deputy McLellan, but I wish to welcome Mr. Alan Savage to this meeting. I did not have his name earlier, so I apologise for not mentioning him. He is very welcome.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: That came from who?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: That is what I thought.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Thank you, Senator van Turnhout. Before I call Deputy Catherine Byrne, I forgot to give apologies from Deputies Healy and Ó Caoláin earlier.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: How many staff will be recruited to Oberstown? Is there a timeline for the transfer of 17 year old males from St Patrick's Institution? What about a timeframe for the detention of young people in prisons? Tusla still has not got access to psychologists which the committee regards as important. Will the Minister comment on this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We will come back to that after we suspend for the vote in the Dáil.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The Minister was replying to the members' questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: What about the issue of 17 year olds?