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Priority Questions: Child Care Services Funding (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Does the Minister have a date by which the single affordable child care scheme will be operational and what measures are being introduced to include childminders as eligible providers?

Priority Questions: Child Care Services Funding (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister. I, too, acknowledge that this is not an easy process. This time last year, I asked the Minister for an update on the ICT system. I understand roll-out of this scheme is being held up because it is not up to standard. What is the status of the ICT project at this point, which was supposed to be in place for August 2018. What is the current timeline in this regard? ...

Priority Questions: Child Care Services Funding (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: What is the status of the legislation for the single affordable child care scheme? As the committees will be going into recess in two weeks' time, I presume the scheme will not be in place before the end of the summer. Also what engagement or work is being done by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs with the Department of Social Protection and the Revenue Commissioners in relation...

Priority Questions: Departmental Reports (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I acknowledge that considerable work has been done. The implementation plan agreed with Tusla last week was welcome. I am keen to see the timelines and the reviews to be completed. When will we know the county by county details in respect of the data contained on page 50 of Dr. Geoffrey Shannon's report? Do we have a timeline in that regard? Reference was made to 23 social care...

Priority Questions: Departmental Reports (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 23. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason her department is not implementing the recommendation of the audit of An Garda Síochána use of section 12 to establish a 24 hour social work service. [31457/17]

Priority Questions: Departmental Reports (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: My first question for the Minister is to ask the reasons her Department is not implementing the recommendation of the audit of An Garda Síochána use of section 12 to establish a 24 hour social work service.

Priority Questions: Departmental Reports (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I suppose I am a little at sea in one of the questions I am asking the Minister. What piece of information is missing from Dr. Geoffrey Shannon's report? The information is not there. He has written this in the here and now, for example, he wrote in 2014, 2015 and was compiling it up to 2016. Tusla put in place an out-of-hours service which the report acknowledges is in place. However,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Homeless Accommodation Provision (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 56. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether hotel and bed and breakfast accommodation is suitable for homeless families; her further views on whether the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government is delivering on its responsibility to these families; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31216/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Homeless Accommodation Provision (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 550. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether hotel and bed and breakfast accommodation is suitable for homeless persons; her further views on whether the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government is delivering on its responsibility to these persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31229/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Poverty (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 46. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she is taking to address child poverty here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31218/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Establishment (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 54. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date by which she hopes to enact legislation on the single affordable childcare scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31217/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 403. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting the allocation of an appointment time from CAMHS, child and adolescent mental health service, by age group (details supplied) and by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31250/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Legislative Measures (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 543. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the Adoption (Information and Tracing) (No. 2) Bill; when she expects this Bill to be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30859/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Poverty (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 552. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she is taking to address child poverty here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31231/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 609. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the long delays for processing applications, reviews and appeals within the domiciliary care allowance and disability allowance sections of her Department; her plans to rectify the issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31423/17]

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I feel bad that people such as the Minister of State, Deputy Moran, is taking the criticism on his behalf. The Minister, Deputy Ross, should be here to take it. I would love to tell him to his face about the child he is letting down, the dwarf children, the child with the medical card and about homelessness because he does not want to hear the real facts. Guess who is in the bubble in...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Why are we not supporting the people who elected us and the people on the ground who are struggling? Families, husbands, wives and children are struggling. Sometimes children do not have food put on the table because a father or mother is gambling every last penny that comes in. All the while we do not have a regulator or regulation. Why do we not have that? It is because the Government...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, for being here to listen to us. I, along with my party, will not be supporting this Bill. This Bill is regrettably not about reform. It is the unholy price that Fine Gael is prepared to pay for power, and the cost of it is the undermining of the judicial system. I will carry on from where Deputy Butler left off. It is possibly off the topic of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Mental Health Services: Seanad Public Consultation Committee (28 Jun 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I am sorry; I had to step out of the room. I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Most importantly, I thank Mr. Gareth Noble for his presentation. It is the one that should be liked and shared across multimedia because it echoed what I have experienced in my constituency clinic, as have many others. My personal assistants and everyone else are hearing about it on a daily basis....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Mental Health Services: Seanad Public Consultation Committee (28 Jun 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Dr. Shannon for an outstanding report. This is the third time we have had conversations since the report was launched. Hindsight and 20/20 vision are great things. If we had known some of the answers this morning we might have approached Tusla somewhat differently last week. In her statement this morning the Minister said that there is a new inter-agency protocol reflecting the...