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- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: I want to acknowledge the Government's commitment to the construction of the centre at Oberstown. It is a welcome development. When the former Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald, secured the funding for it, I acknowledged that fact. It is only right and proper that when something is being done correctly it is acknowledged, and I have no problem in doing so. Sometimes there is a difference in...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: I presume the slight reduction in the allocation for current expenditure is due to the decline in the number of children participating in the child care programme.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: Given the level of additional requirements being imposed on preschool education providers, for example, new inspections and regulations, and the reduction in the number of service users, would this not be an appropriate time to restore the previous level of capitation? Some preschool services have been put to the pin of their collar and may not survive. A rally on this issue will take place...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: I would like to share my experience on this issue. The additional charges which the Minister considers a problem are a necessity because the services require more money to break even. I am a member of the board of management of a community facility in my constituency. I was unable to attend a meeting of the board held last night but I learned that it is planning to organise a 5 km fun run...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: I welcome the significant increase in the capital budget provided for in this subhead. I presume it will be used to fund a new grant scheme to be introduced this year. Will private services, which were unable to avail of the scheme last year, be eligible to avail of the new scheme? Will the scheme be primarily for maintenance works or will service providers be able to apply to it to fund...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: The Minister will have an easy day then because he will have answered all the questions today.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: This initiative was rolled out at the time to address a change in the eligibility for the one-parent family allowance. I refer to a reply to a parliamentary question I asked last June. The scheme was originally formed with 6,000 places and an allocation of €10 million. In June 2014, after its first year in operation, 154 places had been availed of. It is clear that the scheme is...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: The balance of the money which was not utilised for the after-school programme went into the establishment of this programme.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: It is welcome that the level of funding has been maintained this year. This comes on the back of a disproportionate cut under the subhead in recent years. That said, it is welcome that the funding is being maintained. Is it through these funds that the money is made available to the various education and training boards, formerly the VECs, which administer funding to various youth groups...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: On subhead C5, I note that there is a reduction of 25% in the allocation. I would have imagined that it was under this subhead we would have been dealing with the allocation of funding for the early years strategy, a strategy which the Government promised a number of years ago would deal comprehensively with our vision for the development of this crucial sector. What is the position on the...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: Will the cross-departmental groups on the affordability of child care feed into this strategy? Will the cross-sectoral team tasked with supporting children with special educational needs going into mainstream settings feed into the early years strategy?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: I do not mean to be pedantic, but I would have thought given the fact that when the early years strategy was first mooted it was going to be the overarching policy document and would be the framework and roadmap of how we want to see this crucial sector develop over a period of years, that the cross-departmental group on affordability of child care would feed into the early years strategy, as...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: I echo the sentiments expressed by Deputy Ó Caoláin, including his acknowledgement of the good work done by the Office of the Ombudsman for Children since its formation a number of years ago. Often when listening to speakers one would think there had been no positive developments in the area of child welfare and protection under the previous Administration. However, the Office of...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: I know that.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: I acknowledge the contribution made by the former Ombudsman for Children, Ms Emily Logan, which is also acknowledged internationally by virtue of her new appointment. I, too, wish Dr. Niall Muldoon well. I do not know him personally. He has big shoes to fill. I read in the Minister's press release that a large number of applications for the post were received, which is positive. I wish...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) Robert Troy: I would like to be associated with those remarks.
- Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
Robert Troy: I congratulate the INMO on securing additional front-line staff for a number of hospitals this week. Last week I raised the issue of the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar and the Taoiseach seemed to belittle my enthusiasm about advocating the rights of the staff at that hospital, where there are 100 fewer whole-time equivalent nurses and midwives in the past five years. I want to ask...
- Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
Robert Troy: On legislation in the area of children, the Taoiseach said before that this was the most reforming Government in the area of child welfare. I want to ask about two pieces of legislation, first the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012. That was enacted by both Houses of the Oireachtas over 12 or 18 months ago. When will the commencement order be signed?...
- Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
Robert Troy: No one made that comment
- Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
Robert Troy: We can go back to the record.