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Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: Is that a sign of what is coming down the track?

Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: The Tánaiste does not realise the severity and consequences of what was in the CSO report. It stated that 140,000 children, one in eight, were without food and heat in 2013. The Tánaiste has agreed to a debate. When will the Government make time available to debate the findings of the CSO report? We need the debate not at some distant future time but now. My second point is...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: That scheme has been discontinued.

Order of Business (21 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: There are Deputies out campaigning for elections.

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (21 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 2:To delete all words after “establishing a Commission under that Act;” and substitute the following: “— calls for Schedule (11) (B) of the draft Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters) Order, 2015 to be amended by inserting after ‘their children’, ‘with particular regard to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (21 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: 31. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the number of front-line medical staff at Mullingar Regional Hospital, County Westmeath, is adequate to meet the demands being placed on them; the number of permanent front-line medical staff in the hospital in 2012, 2013 and 2014; the number of agency staff employed in each of those years; the timeframe for any recruitment process,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIQA Inspections (21 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: 58. To ask the Minister for Health the reason community nursing homes are being treated differently from private nursing homes with regard to the Health Information and Quality Authority standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2396/15]

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Staff (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: If the Minister compares the turnover of social workers with other health professionals such as nurses, it is quite high. One social worker recently said:I started to feel that instead of helping these children and families I was now part of a system that was causing them further harm and stress. Every social worker I speak to has an exit strategy because it is impossible. It is not...

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Staff (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: I am sure social workers will be delighted to receive the Minister’s thanks but what they actually want is support which they are not getting. If they got support, there would not be the high level of turnover there is. Neither would there be social workers saying that instead of feeling they were helping children or their families, they were part of a system that was causing further...

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Staff (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: We are in Ireland now.

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Staff (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: That is not true.

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Staff (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: 113. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action he will take to deal with the shortage of social workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2204/15]

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Staff (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: We are all aware of the current high turnover of social work staff, which staff cite as arising because of high workloads and a lack of administrative supports. What is the Minister and his Department doing to deal with this high turnover and shortage of social workers?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Regulation (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: The Minister has outlined nothing new. He has quoted statistics about which we are aware. He referred to service providers, which are fulfilling a role the State is failing to fulfil. We need to support the early childhood care and education sector, which has expanded at a rapid pace over the past decade. There have been many positive developments, including the provision of 65,000 new...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Regulation (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: I acknowledge the Minister made €3 million available; that is not in question. However, in a sector that employs 24,000 people, that equates to €125 per head. That would not buy the books to study at FETAC level 5 or 6. The staff in the sector feel they are undervalued and under resourced for the pivotal role they play in society and they are right. If they did not feel...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Regulation (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: 109. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to address the concerns regarding the conditions of those who work in the childcare sector in view of those who are concerned that the sector is facing more regulation and extra requirements for qualifications and training without any corresponding increase in capitation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2372/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Regulation (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: What are the Minister's and the Department's plans to address the concerns about conditions for professionals working in the early childhood care and education sector? Many concerns have been raised in the sector concerning increasing regulation and extra requirements for qualifications and training without any provision for increased capitation or support from the Department. This sector...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: The question is about the cost of child care.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: I thought the whole purpose of having a new Department of Children and Youth Affairs was to co-ordinate all this. The Minister has had four years in office and I remind him of what the Government has done in those four years regarding the cost of child care. It has reduced child benefit, taxed maternity benefit and reduced the capitation rates that are paid to the child care providers. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (20 Jan 2015)

Robert Troy: If this Government was serious about dealing with this issue it would have used budget 2015 to deal with it, instead of announcing two weeks after that budget came into effect that it was going to establish yet another committee to look into a problem we already know is there.