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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: We need the numbers and we could group it ourselves. The officials can see what they can get us.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Where a provider has had large amounts of overclaiming, is there any punishment? Say a particular company was particularly efficient at registering and enrolling children but not looking after them, what is the punishment? What is the naughty step for lack of compliance? Will the provider be turfed out of the scheme in the future? Will it be inspected more regularly? What is the slap on...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Am I correct that the women's refuge in Rathmines, and women's refuges, come under Tusla? The Rathmines refuge closed some time ago. Can anyone confirm that it is still closed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: It was a women's refuge, then it was closed to be refurbished.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: It is very close to where I live. It was closed for refurbishment in the context of operating as a women's refuge. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: So it was done up as a women's refuge and now it is being used for homeless people.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Was there any extra capacity when it was done up? One issue was that when women ended up there having fled a difficult situation, there was no facility for bringing a child with them. Was that dealt with as part of the doing-up?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: However, it is not being used for the purpose.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: On the counting of women's refuge beds, I understand that Rathmines is still being counted as though it is a women's refuge. Am I right or wrong?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: I know that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Perhaps Mr. Smyth can do so this afternoon. It would be easy enough to find out. I understand that it is still being counted as refuge beds but it is not currently a refuge. Mr. Smyth mentioned staff. Where are the staff who were there previously? What happened to them during the doing-up phase and where are they now?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: They were deployed somewhere else temporarily. Can we get some more detail on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Were there redundancies paid and so on? I want to know where the staff went. Were they given redundancy? Were they given money to move to a different job? Are they returning to the facility in September with the experience they had?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: My final question is to Dr. Lynch. Regarding the pay of childcare workers, it is very concerning that there is a 25% turnover of staff, as referred to by Ms McNally. The person who looks after one's children is the most important person in the child's life after oneself. Perhaps one's husband might be ahead, but the childcare provider is second after him. It is because it is a caring,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Thank you, Chairman.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Deputy Aylward might be coming over.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: They work for two years and then they can leave with a lump sum, essentially.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Yes. They are saving to travel and then going off.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Is it 600 or 6,000 who are under 18?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: And then there are 2,000 over 18. It is a sort of continuation.