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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Applications (30 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: 270. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to problems and delays in processing illness benefit and injury benefit claims; the steps taken to remedy the problems; the arrangements in place for persons to be able to contact the illness benefit section when problems arise; and if community welfare officers will be directed to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: EU Directives (30 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: 273. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 648 of 22 January 2019, if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Austria, Bulgaria and the UK have transposed IORP II in view of the fact that the attention of her Department has been drawn to only one country which has transposed the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: As we probably have the same questions as do the witnesses, in some ways it is a bit pointless for us to ask them our questions. They have been incredibly forthright, consistent and clear in all of the reports that they have given. In their testimony today their independence and professionalism is apparent. Our job today is to get to the bottom of the reasons for non-publication. As the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: The chair of the board has said that the witnesses did not formally present. Did they give an idea of their concerns?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: That is the issue I am trying to get at. The chairperson is on record as saying that when she got the report it landed like a bombshell. It was a total shock when she got the report. That does not seem to tally with what the delegation present is saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: I will, yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: That is an important point because the interpretation of that statement is being posed in the context that the witnesses were off the beaten track and had come up with stuff that was completely out of whack and threw everybody and that this was a contributing factor. What Professor Hardwick is saying is that it could have been shocking if the people reading the report were disconnected from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: It is key that that point was brought out because we know from freedom of information requests, for example, that correspondence between the Department and the chair of the board refers to the chair of the board questioning and raising concerns about the lack of consistency in the witnesses' processes and that she had concerns about the methodology they had adopted. Professor Hardwick has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: In fairness to the Department, there was a lot of follow-up correspondence, where it was in dialogue with the board, trying to overcome its objections and push it along. That came afterwards.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: For once, I am defending the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: It is important Professor Hardwick made that point because there is a school of thought, not mine I might add, or I have heard it said or hinted at, that the two boys - kind of blow ins - arrived in town for a few days at a time when the campus was going through a very stressful period, when it was busily implementing changes and when things were difficult and that it was all very well for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: That leads to my next question. It was said, and was said again today by the witnesses, that the review Deputy Rabbitte referred to in 2018 resonated a lot within the report. We have not seen the report but we are deeply concerned about what the HIQA report said. The Minister said that HIQA report was a great success and shows the progress being made but it found that only three standards...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: That could not be clearer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: It is really important that those issues are made clear. The witnesses have been really clear that they are open to coming back and to talking to the staff and that they have actively suggested and agitated for arbitration. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: My last point refers to an issue which has been a constant concern to me, namely, the statements the witnesses made that had the contents of the report been made available, the outcome of some of the legal actions in terms of the young people might have been different.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: The cases are over but okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: It could have been

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: It may have been.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: I have not heard anything that convinces me of the board's decision not to publish the report. I will start with that. Professor Kilkelly made the point that the board, prior to its decision, evaluated these matters with exceptional care and diligence. She added that the decision not to publish was taken at a meeting on 22 May 2017. Had all of the members of the board received and read...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: Had they received a copy of that report which they were allowed to read and take away?