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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Protection Services Provision (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I welcome the commitment and the timeframe of August 2017. I am sure all the social care workers involved in Tusla will also welcome it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Protection Services Provision (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 1. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to discuss the inadequate central referral system used by social worker services and the absence of a central ICT system. [23513/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Protection Services Provision (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: Will the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs discuss the inadequate central referral system? I am looking for some answers regarding the fact that there is no centralised reporting system for child welfare. Where are we with regard to the introduction of a central ICT system?

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Community Childcare Subvention Programme (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 30. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to address concerns that the planned expansion of the community childcare subvention scheme is not taking place due to the low level of subsidy given to private child care providers to take up the scheme. [23059/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 33. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to address concerns over inadequate case management by social worker services of adult disclosure cases and the lack of an overarching strategy for dealing with adult disclosure cases by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. [23057/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 40. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to address concerns over private residential care homes, specifically that many such homes provide less quality care to children in their care than voluntary and State care homes; the reason Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, relies so heavily on private residential homes rather than State-provided care homes. [23058/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Maternity Leave (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 43. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to increase statutory maternity leave entitlement; if she will provide estimates of the cost of increasing maternity leave from 26 weeks to 30 weeks and from 26 weeks to 34 weeks; her views on whether these cost estimates take into account the effect of the cost impact of increased maternity leave on the public sector wage bill due to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) is ineligible for a concessionary bus pass to their school. [23674/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) has had their bus service completely cut for 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24306/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Eligibility (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 503. To ask the Minister for Health to reassess a person (details supplied) under the fair deal scheme as the person's situation has changed. [23660/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 881. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to provide figures on the percentage of working days lost to Tusla due to sickness absence through certified and uncertified leave in each year since its establishment. [23753/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 898. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of increasing the number of weeks covered under the early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme from 38 to 40 and 42, respectively, from September 2017 onwards. [24226/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 899. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount allocated and drawn down in respect of the learner fund in 2016. [24227/16]

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Strategic Plan 2016-2018: Engagement with Ombudsman for Children (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I have no problem starting. I thank the ombudsman for the presentation this morning. Given that he was representing and speaking on behalf of 1.2 million people, he did very well to condense it down like that. How he summed it up at the end encompassed it all. As he said, it is the small little bits that one forgets that really take away the hardship for the parents and the families. My...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Strategic Plan 2016-2018: Engagement with Ombudsman for Children (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: When one speaks about children accessing information and administrative practices, including children with disabilities, it is necessary try to join up some dots. One must also try to work with appropriate persons, for example, special needs assistants because what is acceptable in one setting may not be acceptable in an educational setting. It is fantastic that a child with a disability is...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Strategic Plan 2016-2018: Engagement with Ombudsman for Children (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I agree.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Strategic Plan 2016-2018: Engagement with Ombudsman for Children (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: The system works for 85% but, in respect of the 15% remaining, we may need to have the flexibility to support the principals and parents, with nobody getting a slap on the wrist.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Strategic Plan 2016-2018: Engagement with Ombudsman for Children (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: It is important that the Departments be able to support the person on the ground making the decisions that are best for the child.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Strategic Plan 2016-2018: Engagement with Ombudsman for Children (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: If all such decisions put the child first, and if it all times it is asked whether the child’s needs are catered for first, one is making the right choice.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way special educational needs organisers who are neither medical nor educational professionals can adjudicate on the veracity or otherwise of such professionals' recommendations as to the needs of children (details supplied). [23357/16]