Written answers
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Childcare Services
1099. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will clarify, following the publication of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business, guidelines on Covid-19 for registered... - Departmental Contracts
1104. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department has engaged the use of external consultants from 1 January 2020 to date; the details and costs of such engagements; and... - Childcare Services
1105. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the guidelines on childminders re-opening following this period of closure will be published; and if she will make a statement on the... - Wage Subsidy Scheme
1107. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department is considering further supports for the childcare sector after the expected end date of the wage subsidy scheme; and if... - Early Childhood Care and Education
1108. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department is considering changes to the ECCE capitation payments to childcare providers in view of the potential impact of social... - Departmental Correspondence
1109. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address queries raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5568/20] - Childcare Services
1110. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the public health advice available on the phased reopening of crèches as outlined in the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business,... - Childcare Costs
1111. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to instances in which crèches and childcare facilities are requiring parents to pay part of their... - National Childcare Scheme
1112. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of parents and guardians who are not in employment, training or studying and that now cannot qualify for the national childcare... - Foster Care
1113. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department or agencies working under its aegis plan on updating guidelines to foster carers and residential settings further to the... - Children in Care
1115. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the circumstances under which it will remain appropriate to defer birth parents access to children in foster and residential care... - Childcare Services
1116. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the insurance arrangements that will be put in place in respect of childcare workers providing childcare to health workers; and if these... - Domestic Violence Services
1118. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures she has taken to ensure that additional refuge supports are in place for victims of domestic and gender-based violence from... - Covid-19 Pandemic
1119. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the plans being developed by her Department or Tusla on separated parents having access to their children while the country reopens over... - Childcare Services
1120. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the State will be providing insurance cover and indemnity to those who sign up to the scheme to provide childcare in the homes of... - Covid-19 Pandemic
1122. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if guidelines will issue as to whether or not sports and activity summer camps should be run in 2020 in view of the Covid-19 emergency; if... - Childcare Services
1123. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if pharmacists will be included in the proposed childcare scheme for front-line essential healthcare workers in view of the fact the HSE... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1127. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if childcare providers will be allocated PPE or grant support towards same in advance of the re-opening of services. [6032/20] - Health and Safety Inspections
1128. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which future inspections by Pobal and Tusla will be conducted following the reopening of childcare services; if unannounced... - Childcare Services
1130. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has contacted the insurance industry to request that childcare providers be given refunds for the period during which they were not... - Insurance Coverage
1131. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if childcare providers providing childcare to healthcare workers are covered by State indemnity; and if not, the reason for their... - Childcare Costs
1132. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department has conducted an analysis of possible price increases that will result from crèches operating at a lower capacity... - Childcare Services
1133. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if re-registrations and inspections for crèches that were expected to take place before June 2020 will be rescheduled; and the... - Children in Care
1135. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in the care of the State in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form; the number of... - Early Years Sector
1136. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number and names of persons taking part in the advisory group analysing the reopening of early years services; the name of the six... - Childcare Services
1137. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a strategy is being developed to facilitate childminders restarting their service; if public health advice has been sought on this... - Early Years Sector
1138. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the projected capacity percentage rate allowable in centre-based early years services as they begin to open to all workers; the way in... - Children in Care
1140. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children who have remained in State care after the end date of their voluntary care arrangement over the past number of... - Childcare Services
1143. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the public health advice offered regarding grandparents having to mind their grandchildren when parents return to work in circumstances in... - Domestic Violence Services
1144. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated full-year cost if the budget for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence services increased by 9%; and if she will make a... - Childcare Services
1145. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a person (details supplied) will be eligible for the proposed childcare for essential workers scheme; and if she will make a statement... - Capital Expenditure Programme
1146. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of applications received for capital works for playgrounds; the local authorities that applied; and the projects applied for in... - Child Protection
1147. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if additional support and protection is available for children at risk of neglect, violence or exploitation during the public health... - Childcare Services
1148. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when au-pairs and childminders that work alone minding children in another home can return to work;; and if she will make a statement on... - Children in Care
1150. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in the care of the State who have tested positive for Covid-19. [6845/20] - Wage Subsidy Scheme
1151. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to backdate supports to crèches that were delayed in submitting their application to the employers subsidy scheme. [6846/20] - Child Detention Centres
1152. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to publish the report into the operation of the Oberstown children’s detention centre in the coming months; and if she... - Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
1153. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes; and the projected date for the publication of its report. [6848/20] - Domestic Violence Services
1154. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a breakdown of her Department's €25.3 million budgetary allocation for 2020 for victims of domestic, sexual and... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1155. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the additional budgetary allocation related to Covid-19 for victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence related services her... - Childcare Services
1157. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the assistance that will be provided to small crèches to assist them in reopening safely at the appropriate time. [6855/20] - Adoption Data
1158. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if calls by adoptees to have an automatic right to access their own information, including their own birth name and automatic access to... - Online Safety
1159. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the efforts taken to date to monitor the presence of in-app purchases targeting children using applications on various devices; the... - Wage Subsidy Scheme
1160. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the percentage of childcare providers that have signed up for the WSCS to date; the reasons given by childcare providers to her Department... - Childcare Services
1161. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childcare providers registered with the new outreach childcare scheme for the children of front-line healthcare workers; the... - Early Childhood Care and Education
1163. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will be making funding available for July and August 2020 on a once-off basis to the ECCE-only sector and to other sessional and... - Child and Family Agency
1164. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason Tusla does not have a record of the number of child sex abuse cases that were referred to An Garda Síochána for 2016...
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