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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Data (3 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 234. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated full year cost of one child's place in the ECCE programme. [19380/18]

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: It is easy to distract the Deputy.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: With the height of respect, it is reasonable.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: The Deputy should stick to the amendments.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: The Deputy is filibustering;. That is what he is doing.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I will not endorse any form of filibustering and I will only take a few minutes. It is my first time to address this Bill and I will only speak to one point in support of Deputy Robert Troy's comments this evening and over the past number of months. I do not sit on the transport committee or anything like that. I am no different from any of the other rural Deputies who have come before...

Mental Health Parity Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I also commend my colleague Deputy James Browne for bringing forward the Mental Health Parity Bill 2017 which aims to address the unequal treatment of mental health services by placing them at the centre of all key decisions taken by the Department of Health. I have addressed the Minister of State with responsibility for mental health services, Deputy Jim Daly, and his predecessor, Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Asylum Support Services (2 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 152. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children seeking asylum awaiting the allocation of a social care worker; the average wait time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19143/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Asylum Support Services (2 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 153. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children seeking asylum here awaiting an aftercare plan. [19144/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (1 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister of State for his response and take on board everything he has said, but I must return to the programme, "The Big Picture - Young and Troubled", in which young people identified solutions and where they and their families needed help. Only a number of weeks ago in Galway the Youth Work Ireland counselling service applied for funding from the HSE to provide a service for...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (1 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: RTÉ programmes broadcast on three nights last week showed how children were being failed in this state. The programmes in question covered the issues of gambling and foster care and troubled young people, the latter of which is being raised by five Deputies by way of a Topical Issue. Although I can only talk about my own area, CHO area 2, I can empathise clearly with what the young...

Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (1 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I would like to be able to continue discussing this issue with the Minister.

Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (1 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 31. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the confusion and anomalies caused by the age limits that her Department has imposed as eligibility criteria for the ECCE programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18799/18]

Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (1 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: My question is to ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the confusion and anomalies caused by the age limits that her Department has imposed as eligibility criteria for the ECCE programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (1 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister and acknowledge that the ECCE scheme has been extended to the two years. I also acknowledge that she has brought it back to one entry point. There had been much confusion about that. Going back to the entry point, children that are two years and eight months old on 1 September cannot enter into the two year ECCE scheme. That is where the problem is. Can the...

Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (1 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I acknowledge the financial implications but if the child falls into that January category, the parent ends up footing the bill for the difference even though he or she was technically within the rules, that is, that we would give two years ECCE to all children. We are looking at approximately 58,000 children. It is not 58,000 children who will be impacted by any manner or means. It is a...

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Funding (1 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I appreciate the Minister's answer but I am going back to last September when the chief executive officer, Mr. Fred McBride, suspected that €40.6 million would be insufficient to introduce mandatory reporting and a host of other services. When he appeared before the Oireachtas committee he said that mandatory reporting was going to increase Tusla's workload by 150%. Month on month we...

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Funding (1 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: We supported and welcomed the introduction of mandatory reporting when it was brought in. We believe it is a step in the right direction. It may or may not have been a throwaway comment, but the sky is falling in for the 898 children who have not been allocated a social care worker. Last year the One in Four charity raised its concerns about Tusla. It explained that Tusla was not...

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Funding (1 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 30. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is satisfied that Tusla is adequately resourced to deal with its workload in view of the recent introduction of mandatory reporting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18803/18]

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Funding (1 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Is the Minister satisfied that Tusla is adequately resourced to deal with its workload in view of the recent introduction of mandatory reporting and will she make a statement on the matter?