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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Alternative Aftercare Services for Young Adults: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: ...and HIQA compliance and challenges. We are joined by Tusla representatives today - Mr. Bernard Gloster; chief executive officer; Ms Kate Duggan, national director, services and integration; Mr. Pat Smyth, national director, finance and corporate services; and Ms Clare Murphy, regional chief officer. I believe we have two guests joining us online through Microsoft Teams as well - Ms...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Ukrainian Crisis: Discussion (17 May 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: The business for consideration is the response to the crisis in Ukraine. In this session, we are joined by Mr. Liam O'Dwyer, secretary general, and Mr. Pat Carey, chairperson, Irish Red Cross. They are both very welcome. I am delighted they were able to be with us today. Witnesses who are participating from the committee room are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues and the Loss of Positive Care Services: Engagement with Tusla (10 May 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: ...care issues and the loss of services provided by Positive Care. We are joined from Tusla by Mr. Bernard Gloster, chief executive; Ms Kate Duggan, national director of services and integration; Mr. Pat Smyth, national director of finance and corporate services; Dr. Anthony O'Leary, director of quality and regulation; Mr. Ger Brophy, chief social worker; and Ms Niamh Doody, business manager....

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Poverty: Discussion (9 Nov 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: In our second session, we will engage with representatives from Focus Ireland and Barnardos. I welcome Mr. Pat Dennigan, CEO , Mr. Mike Allen, director of advocacy, research and communications, and Ms Kelly-Anne Byrne, ambassador, from Focus Ireland. We are also joined by Ms Suzanne Connolly, chief executive, and Mr. Stephen Moffat, national policy manager, with Barnardos. The purpose of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care and Complaints Process: Tusla (24 Nov 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: The witnesses are addressing the committee from meeting room B in LH2000. I welcome Mr. Gloster and his colleagues, Ms Kate Duggan, national director of services and integration, Mr. Pat Smyth, director of finance, and Mr. Ger Brophy, chief social worker. I thank the witnesses for providing an overview of the functions of the organisation for the information of members of the committee....

Nurses, Midwives and Paramedics Strikes: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: ...the debates here. We all know how bad the health service is and how great a crisis there is. People regularly tell stories about there not being enough blankets and pillows, let alone beds, for patients, yet we expect nurses to work in that environment and those conditions every day. They do not get the pay they deserve. I agree with my colleagues about Members coming to the House...

Special Needs Assistants: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I wish to share time with Deputies Pat Buckley and Martin Kenny.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: ...Donaldson, Mr. Ken Funston and Ms Karen McAnerney of Innocent Victims United; Mr. Austin Stack and Mr. David Kelly of the Independent Victims and Survivors Coalition; and Ms Barbara Walsh and Mr. Pat Hynes of the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation. I will shortly invite you to give your opening statements and afterwards there will be some questions from the committee. For those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: ...of occasions. We will invite a wide variety of cross-community stakeholders to appear before us in the coming weeks as we consider this matter. Today, we will hear from representatives from the Pat Finucane Centre, Justice for the Forgotten and Relatives for Justice. We will now go into private session to deal with some housekeeping issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I welcome our witnesses to the committee today: Ms Anne Cadwallader from the Pat Finucane Centre; Ms Margaret Urwin from Justice for the Forgotten; and Mr. Mike Ritchie and Mr. Paul Butler from Relatives for Justice. I thank all the representatives for being here today. This is the first in a series of meetings regarding legacy issues. I also welcome those persons in the Public Gallery who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I call Deputy Declan Breathnach. I thank the representatives of the Pat Finucane Centre, Justice for the Forgotten, and Relatives for Justice for giving such excellent presentations and indeed the people in the Gallery who have come to hear what we have to say. The Chair has asked us to ask questions, but I think it is important, coming from a Border constituency where many people have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: ...MPs in attendance. On behalf of myself and the committee, I thank them for their work on the committee over the last year and wish anybody who is contesting the election the best of luck. As Pat Doherty MP is retiring, we wish him the best on his retirement. I also welcome the committee's new clerk, Dervila Flynn, who starts with the committee today. Before we commence our hearings...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Implications for Good Friday Agreement of UK Referendum Result (Resumed) (9 Mar 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: We have received apologies from Deputy Sean Sherlock, Senators Gerard P. Craughwell, Denis Landy and Niall Ó Donnghaile, Francie Molloy, MP, and Pat Doherty, MP. The joint committee is continuing its examination of the implications of Brexit for the Good Friday Agreement. Dr. Duncan Morrow, lecturer in politics and director of community engagement at Ulster University, will speak to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Apologies have been received from Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan; Ms Margaret Ritchie, MP; Mr. Francie Molloy, MP; Mr. Mickey Brady, MP; and Mr. Pat Doherty, MP. We will be continuing our examination of the implications of Brexit for the Good Friday Agreement and its institutions. We are to hear from Mr. Dáithí O'Ceallaigh and Mr. Tom Arnold from the Institute for International and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: ...then see how we are doing for time. We appreciate the attendance of witnesses. We want to start to do something constructive because that is one of the committee's jobs. We will start with Mr. Pat Doherty MP.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Implications for Good Friday Agreement of UK EU Referendum Result: Discussion (27 Sep 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: I welcome everyone to our first meeting. Apologies have been received from Mr. Mickey Brady, MP. I extend a special welcome to Mr. Pat Doherty, MP, Mr. Mark Durkan, MP, Dr. Alasdair McDonnell, MP, and Mr. Francie Molloy, MP. The agenda has been circulated to members. In the first session we will hear the views of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Charles Flanagan, on the...