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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 368. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children deemed to be at risk; the extent to which this number has fluctuated on the basis of satisfactory or other outcomes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30453/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 369. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in care; the extent to which adequate resources, accommodation and ongoing supervision of their respective cases continues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30454/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 370. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children discharged from care in the past 12 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30455/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 374. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which her Department can provide a rapid response in respect of children suspected of various forms of abuse; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30459/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Budgets (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 375. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she remains satisfied regarding the adequacy of the budget available to her Department to cater for the full extent of her responsibilities including the protection of children, the monitoring of at-risk cases and the follow-up as necessary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30460/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Provision (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 376. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she is satisfied regarding the availability of childcare facilities in view of the increasing necessity for both parents to be at work and to meet the requirements of one parent families; the ongoing work being undertaken to improve provisions in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30461/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: After-School Support Service Provision (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 377. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which she remains satisfied regarding the availability of community child support services including the provision of support for after-school activities through youth clubs and similar bodies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30462/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Counselling Services Provision (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 378. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she envisages improved counselling services for children at risk and their families in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30463/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 387. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is accepted that a person (details supplied) is not in the financial position to repay a sum under the redundancy and insolvency payment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30132/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Finnish Presidency of the Council of the European Union: Engagement with Ambassador of Finland (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the ambassador and wish her well in her tenure here. I also welcome her opening statement and we all agree that we are in challenging times and they will remain so for some considerable time. The challenges that the ambassador has mentioned that we have to face immediately adjacent to us is the Brexit issue, which will have quite an economic impact. Incidentally, this is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance-Building in the European Union: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests, some of them for the second time today, and wish them well in their endeavours. On the voluntary and charities sector, I note the reference to access to the European institutions. They may be easier to access than the witnesses think. It might be no harm to send someone over for a week to investigate and meet MEPs and Commissioners who know the ropes and who can be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance-Building in the European Union: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Mr. Murphy missed one of my points. I queried the ability of an individual who does not have offices in both jurisdictions and their right to practise and take cases in the Irish courts and the UK courts. I think Mr. Mansfield QC was a person who came to mind and who had that particular qualification. How does that stand now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I apologise for having to absent myself but I had to put questions in the Dáil Chamber. I hope my questions for the witnesses have not been covered already and apologise if they have been. Everybody is trying to rebuild and go back to where we were between 2005 and 2007. I wonder if everybody is aware that we were broke then. That is the problem. We need to be careful about where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Are the voluntary organisations allowed to tender or are they excluded from that tendering process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Do they tender?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Now they are tendering against the private sector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: They arein situ delivering services, they have experience and they appear to me to be in a better position to deliver the service.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: How can they be beaten in a tender?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: There is a question that needs to be answered somewhere along the way. Given that the organisation is in situand is specialising in the delivery of the services, it appears that if all things were equal, the private tenderer should not be able to get into the marketplace at all. The national amorphous organisation that is dealing with larger organisations is a little like the HSE, which we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Okay. My other question related to the balance between fundraising in the voluntary sector and the State subventions.