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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 455. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding that her Department has allocated to a programme (details supplied) since 2014. [50974/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Data (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 456. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children eligible under bands A, AJ, B and D, respectively, by age bracket. [50975/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Data (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 457. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding that her Department provided to bands A, AJ, B and D in 2017; and the amount she has allocated to same in 2018. [50976/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Central Statistics Office Data (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 458. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children here, by their household's income bracket (details supplied). [50977/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 459. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of Tusla registered creches, by county. [50978/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 460. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the capacity of Tusla registered creches, by county. [50979/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 461. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the capacity of Tusla registered creches for the provision of care to children under one year of age, by county. [50980/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 462. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the capacity of Tusla registered creches for the provision of care to children under two years of age, by county. [50981/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 463. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the capacity of Tusla registered creches for the provision of care to children under three years of age, by county. [50982/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first and full year cost of increasing the child benefit payment by €1, €2; €3, €4, €5, €6, €7, €8, €9, €10, €11, €12, €13, €14, €15. [51108/17]

Other Questions: Foster Care Provision (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: It is welcome to hear that the Minister is looking for a national strategy in the business plan for 2018 because when the report on the situation in Cork came out the other day, it made for very worrying reading. It found that a number of key recommendations made in the previous report had still not been addressed, least of all the recommendation on Garda vetting. It also found that a...

Other Questions: Foster Care Provision (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: As the Minister is aware, the Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs carried out a scope of works in respect of foster care services. One of the recommendations made by the committee was that the powers afforded to HIQA be extended to include powers of enforcement. Earlier today representatives of HIQA were before the committee to discuss the Oberstown Children Detention Campus....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her response. I tabled this question because I recently met a woman who has been trying to get her child, who has a disability, into a preschool service. Even though she lives just outside Portumna, the only preschool service she can get for her child is near Limerick. When I got in behind the bones of it, I discovered that some child care providers do not look on...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I hear exactly what the Minister is saying to me. I do not want to trivialise the situation. While the AIM model provides for absolutely fantastic interventions and wholeheartedly inclusive groupings, it is not working in the sense that it takes 50 days, or ten weeks, for applications to go through. It is a boundary for child care providers who are looking to put systems in place so they...

Other Questions: Foster Care Provision (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 41. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to address the fact that numerous evaluations by HIQA have found that many foster care services have consistent and serious failings; and to set out the steps she is taking to ensure these failings are addressed. [50218/17]

Other Questions: Foster Care Provision (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I am asking a broad range of questions this afternoon. Given that numerous HIQA evaluations have found consistent and serious failings in many foster care services, I ask the Minister to set out the steps she is taking to ensure such failings are addressed. I am asking this question on the back of last week's publication by HIQA of its second Cork report, which is based on the findings of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 40. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is satisfied that each child in need of support under the access and inclusion model is able to access this support in a timely and appropriate manner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50579/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Is the Minister satisfied with respect to the timely aspect in which the access and inclusion model is accessible by parents and child care providers? I would like her to make a statement on that matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Combatting Cyberbullying (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 38. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her role in protecting children from online bullying, abuse and grooming; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50555/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Combatting Cyberbullying (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I ask the Minister to clarify her role in protecting children from online bullying, abuse and grooming.