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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Early Child Care Education (24 Feb 2015)

Robert Troy: Such as?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Early Child Care Education (24 Feb 2015)

Robert Troy: I could not agree more that it is important that we have a whole-of-Government approach to this area. Despite the statement of the Minister's predecessor a number of years ago that the Government was at that time looking at this issue, it has taken in excess of four years for this much heralded interdepartmental group, which is expected to provide all the answers to all our ills, to be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Early Child Care Education (24 Feb 2015)

Robert Troy: In committee a number of weeks ago I asked that the Minister, to help ease the pressures on service providers, would, at a minimum, restore the capitation payments to their original levels.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Early Child Care Education (24 Feb 2015)

Robert Troy: Fianna Fáil in government increased child benefit, provided 65,000 new preschool places and established the county child care committees to support a quality service in each county. It also established Síolta and Aistear, internationally recognised curricula, and put in place a framework for delivery of those curricula. There were many good things done in this sector which...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Early Child Care Education (24 Feb 2015)

Robert Troy: 120. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the adequacy of the capitation grant for providers of the free preschool year; and his further views on whether the current capitation grant to preschools is adequate for these providers to pay their care staff a professional wage. [8004/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Early Child Care Education (24 Feb 2015)

Robert Troy: We all aspire to have a graduate-led workforce in the provision of early childhood care and education. What are the Minister's views about the adequacy of the capitation grant for providers of the free preschool year? Is the current grant to preschools adequate and does it allow providers to pay their staff a professional wage?

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (24 Feb 2015)

Robert Troy: 131. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the adequacy of the capitation grant, for the providers of the free pre-school year; and his further views, that the current capitation grant to pre-schools is adequate for these providers to pay their care staff a professional wage. [7761/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education (24 Feb 2015)

Robert Troy: 137. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of consultation with the Department of Education and Skills and-or the Department of Health, on necessary supports for children with a disability, who are in mainstream early childhood services; and if he will provide an update on plans to publish a national strategy to support these children. [7763/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Aftercare Services (24 Feb 2015)

Robert Troy: 154. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update on the resources being made available for aftercare services for children and young persons leaving State care. [7764/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit (24 Feb 2015)

Robert Troy: 211. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 559 of 10 February 2015, if she will investigate the situation whereby school secretaries have to sign-on every time they take holidays and are not paid for the first days of their claim; and if a more user-friendly, efficient service will be put in place whereby persons can sign on once a year at the start...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Installation Aid Scheme Eligibility (24 Feb 2015)

Robert Troy: 277. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he has put in place to support old young farmers who missed out on the installation grant in 2008 and, in view of the fact that they have been farming in excess of five years, are missing the incentives for new young farmers under the Common Agricultural Policy. [7677/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (24 Feb 2015)

Robert Troy: 407. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a transfer request in respect of a person (details supplied). [7735/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (24 Feb 2015)

Robert Troy: 458. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine a case (details supplied) regarding the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7993/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (19 Feb 2015)

Robert Troy: The message is the Department is reconfiguring the system which is correct. It is critically important, however, that those who need additional supports get them now. Twelve months without necessary supports is a significant time for such children when two to four years of age. The difficulty with the allocation of learning support hours and resource hours is that it is at the...

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (19 Feb 2015)

Robert Troy: I thank the office of the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this extremely important topic. Moreover, it is highly topical, given the announcement by the Minister last week of the postponement of the implementation of the new model for allocation of resources hours and learning support. This announcement has created much worry and anxiety for a number of people. I acknowledge that it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Feb 2015)

Robert Troy: I am conscious of the fact that we met the Minister a couple of weeks ago and we discussed many of the issues he addressed today. First, I will address issues relating to the inter-departmental committee on child care. The Minister is aware that up to 3,000 practitioners took to the streets two days ago to express their concern at the lack of investment in the sector. At the meeting of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Feb 2015)

Robert Troy: Sorry, Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Service Provision (19 Feb 2015)

Robert Troy: 134. To ask the Minister for Health when a consultant orthodontist will be appointed to the Midland Health Board, in view of the delay of providing orthodontic treatment to a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [7419/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staffing (19 Feb 2015)

Robert Troy: 138. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the intern panel for care assistants in Mullingar General Hospital, County Westmeath, in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford. [7466/15]

Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)

Robert Troy: The Child and Family Relationship Bill which I understand will be brought before the House next week acknowledges the new composition and make-up of families in Ireland versus the traditional family. When will the family court Bill, to reform our family courts and to provide for a consistent approach by them in ensuring the best interests of children are taken into account at all times, be...