Results 9,941-9,960 of 10,837 for speaker:Anne Rabbitte
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Poverty (13 Jul 2017)
Anne Rabbitte: 1175. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the percentage of children under 18 years of age who live in consistent poverty. [34186/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Poverty (13 Jul 2017)
Anne Rabbitte: 1176. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the percentage of children under 18 years of age who live in consistent poverty before social transfers. [34187/17]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)
Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minster for her presentation. It is important to start with the positives and to welcome what happened in last year's budget. It was a welcome announcement and it was step in the right direction. The recent announcement of €3.5 million support for the child care providers was another welcome provision. I will not rehash the questions that have been asked because I am...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)
Anne Rabbitte: Is that within the one piece of legislation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)
Anne Rabbitte: Has the Department looked at the SUSI model?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)
Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her presentation. The Minister said, "We cannot and will not be complacent". I endorse everything she said in that respect and everything in page 4 of her presentation. I will start with Dr. Shannon's report and some questions I asked in the House last week during Priority Questions. With regard to the statement that we cannot and will not be complacent, I believe...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)
Anne Rabbitte: I asked a direct question. Why would the Minister have gone down that route? I know it is public procurement and so on but in the best interest of the children, why would we not have finished what we know An Garda Síochána started? Why would we not have continued the piece of work that was live? Why are we going down the route of putting it out to tender? I am sorry if I am...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)
Anne Rabbitte: No. I have no further questions. The Minister knows where I am coming from.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)
Anne Rabbitte: Absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)
Anne Rabbitte: It has identified a number of cases.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)
Anne Rabbitte: While section 12 is completed, section 13 needs to be done to finish the piece of work-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)
Anne Rabbitte: -----because one moves into the other.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (12 Jul 2017)
Anne Rabbitte: 32. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in each Garda station in County Galway as of 30 June 2017; and the number of new recruits assigned to the division since recruitment resumed in 2014. [32859/17]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (11 Jul 2017)
Anne Rabbitte: I thank the delegates who have participated in the discussion. I am not a member of the committee and this is the first time I have engaged in a committee other than the one of which I am a member. I am here because of the pure frustration I felt after last year's onslaught, for which nobody could ever have prepared me as a newly elected representative. Ms McElduff and I exchanged numerous...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (11 Jul 2017)
Anne Rabbitte: I thank the witnesses for their responses. I did not get an answer to one of my earlier questions. I seek a "Yes" or "No" answer from the witnesses from Bus Éireann and the Department. Have they all read what the report of the Ombudsman for Children, Dr. Niall Muldoon, states about bus transport? Does the Bus Éireann carry out a risk assessment for those children who have to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (11 Jul 2017)
Anne Rabbitte: Mr. Dolan also has to answer my question on the Ombudsman for Children. Have the departmental officials read the report of the Ombudsman for Children?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (11 Jul 2017)
Anne Rabbitte: I am sorry, Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (11 Jul 2017)
Anne Rabbitte: I thank Mr. Hernan.
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (11 Jul 2017)
Anne Rabbitte: 704. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the first and full-year cost of restoring funding to the school completion programme to 2011 levels. [32198/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme (11 Jul 2017)
Anne Rabbitte: 705. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the percentage of the €19 million budget that has been committed to the affordable childcare scheme. [32199/17]