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Other Questions: Family Resource Centres (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I heard all that the Minister has said but, every year over the past number of years, and particularly since 2011, there has been a budgetary cut of 5% and this has had an impact on family resource centres. Last year a family resource centre in Duagh in County Kerry got €108 from Tusla. I could not believe it when I read it. That is one of those in the statistics; that is one of our...

Other Questions: Family Resource Centres (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I agree with the Minister, which is why I found this very hard. My understanding is that Tusla was focusing on early intervention. Believe it or not, the particular one I spoke about has 97 children in it and receives €108. However, I do not wish to dwell on that. Have we a vision in Tusla to bring in a counsellor to each of the family resource centres so that there is a...

Other Questions: Child Protection Services Provision (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 14. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the inadequate central referral system used by social worker services and the absence of a central ICT system. [23056/16]

Other Questions: Child Protection Services Provision (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I ask the Minister to outline her views on the inadequate central referral system used by social work services in the absence of central IT. I take on board that the Minister has answered many of my questions on the absence of a central IT system, but I would like to hear her views on how that is impacting on social workers who are trying to make referrals through a central system.

Other Questions: Child Protection Services Provision (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: The Minister has hit on the kernel of the issue, namely, the lack of communication among social workers. If a child in Galway moves to Dublin, social workers cannot access the relevant data. That is where things are falling down. I welcome what the Minister said earlier. If we have the correct IT system in place in 2017 and money is ring-fenced from capital funding, that will go a long...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Procedures (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: Offside.

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]

Topical Issue Debate: Cereal Sector (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I ask that it be noted in the Official Report that the Minister did not arrive at the appropriate time and that Deputy Fitzmaurice and I were left waiting. It is 3.40 p.m. and all the other matters have been discussed.

Topical Issue Debate: Cereal Sector (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: The Minister's absence for 24 minutes has been noted and recorded. While we can all run late, to say I am disappointed is to put it mildly. The Fianna Fáil Party has called on the Government to establish a crisis fund for farmland badly damaged by recent weather. Such a fund would be one element in the effort to address problems being experienced by tillage farmers. As Deputy...

Topical Issue Debate: Cereal Sector (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: To follow on from Deputy Fitzmaurice, there is a crisis and people are panicking. It was welcome that the Minister of State, Deputy McEntee, was in the House because the farmers' wives are panicking and they are worried about what they are about to head into for the winter, given they feel their husbands are bottling it all up. A few weeks ago on www.thatsfarming.com, Claire and John Daly...

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: Like my colleagues, I welcome the Bill. One aspect of it that I wish to discuss is the provision relating to road safety measures and speed limits, as the previous speaker has discussed. I come from a council background and I understand the origin of this provision in Jake's law. I have read a great deal about it. We were seeking to have the 20 kp/h limit established in residential areas....