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Written Answers — Departmental Appointments: Departmental Appointments (9 Mar 2010)

Noel Dempsey: My Department's nominees to the Consultative Forum of the Grangegorman Development Agency are Mr. J. Humphreys and Mr S. Ryan. (Mr. Ryan's nomination ceased with effect from January 2009). Between them they have attended two meetings of the Forum. While neither have been in a position to attend meetings of the Consultative Forum on an ongoing basis, they have received the minutes of the...

Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (9 Mar 2010)

Noel Dempsey: The development of transport projects in the Greater Dublin Area is a matter for the National Transport Authority. I have not had any recent discussions with either Irish Rail or the Railway Procurement Agency regarding the development of the Broadstone line.

Written Answers — Air Services: Air Services (9 Mar 2010)

Noel Dempsey: The regulation of microlight aircraft is an operational matter for the Irish Aviation Authority and I have no function in the matter.

Written Answers — Departmental Transport: Departmental Transport (9 Mar 2010)

Noel Dempsey: The information requested cannot be provided at this time due to industrial action. The material will be provided at a later date.

Written Answers — Rail Services: Rail Services (9 Mar 2010)

Noel Dempsey: The Rail services between Galway and Limerick will commence on 30 March. The rest of the information requested cannot be provided at this time due to industrial action. The material will be provided at a later date.

Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2010)

Noel Dempsey: It is not constitutional.

Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2010)

Noel Dempsey: Seems.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Noel Dempsey: It is proposed to take No. 24, Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad] - Second Stage (resumed); and No. 4, Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill 2010 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I agree with the leader of Fine Gael that we should put politics aside in this very tragic case. We should not play politics with cases as tragic as this. It is and was a very tragic case. Members have been talking about their right to discuss the matter but there are rights of privacy involved, rights of family members to be consulted, and the right of the mother to be consulted as well...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Noel Dempsey: Ten of the children involved died of natural causes. All 20 reports are nearing publication and it is intended to publish them once people's rights are respected. I ask Members to respect those rights as well.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Noel Dempsey: For the record, this tragic case dates back to 2002. The recommendations in that report have been or are being-----

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Noel Dempsey: -----put in place. Special care orders have been put in place since 2002. The HSE now tries to ensure uniform delivery of services throughout the country, as opposed to what was happening.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Noel Dempsey: This case dates to a period when health boards were in operation. An assistant national director for children and families has been appointed in the HSE. Social workers, who deal largely with those cases, are exempt from the moratorium imposed by the Government on employment in the health service and across the public service generally.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Noel Dempsey: In addition, it was agreed that 270 extra social workers could be provided within the health service.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Noel Dempsey: More recently in the budget €15 million was provided for the implementation of the Ryan report. It is not true to say that nothing has changed. This was a non-statutory inquiry. People co-operated with the inquiry. In general it is easier to get people to co-operate with non-statutory inquiries because they expect their own confidentiality and that of the inquiry to be respected. I hope...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I repeat what I said in regard to this particular case. There are specific difficulties and consultations with the family that have to take place. There are two other children involved in this. In these circumstances, their right to privacy must take precedence over anything else.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I do not want this to degenerate-----

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Noel Dempsey: As I was saying-----

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Noel Dempsey: As I was saying, there are specific issues-----

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Noel Dempsey: There are specific issues in regard to this case. The request made by Deputies Kenny and Gilmore for a general discussion on the 20 cases that were mentioned this morning is not unreasonable. I am not in a position to say whether the Minister of State with responsibility for children will be able to get that information today.