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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)

James Reilly: On the special needs initiative, every one of the services from 2017 on - the course runs next year - that has an inclusion officer or co-ordinator will get an extra €2 per child per week in capitation regardless of whether there is a special needs child in the school. The idea is to promote inclusion. These are further funds that have been made available. There are many ways of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)

James Reilly: Yes. We want to continue to have training for community employment, CE, scheme participants, but we cannot do that at the cost of the quality of service provided to the child.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)

James Reilly: Since the rapporteur's report involves many Departments, it is being circulated to them. We are waiting for it to return, which we hope will be shortly. We have the social worker numbers, but we may need to revert to the Deputy separately with them. I had them a few minutes ago. I do not have the total number, only the number of new workers. Some 258 new social workers were recruited in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)

James Reilly: We can do so. That is not unreasonable. It will be after Christmas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)

James Reilly: I thank members for their questions. I will take the opportunity to echo what several of them have said, that is, to thank my young Department - why would it not be young, looking after youth affairs and children - for all of its work. Its personnel have met many challenges, but there are more to be faced. We have worked well together with the agency, the youth sector and the voluntary...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Policy (15 Dec 2015)

James Reilly: Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, is the statutory body with responsibility for the provision of domestic, sexual violence and gender-based violence services. The Agency’s key priority is to ensure that the needs of victims are met in the best way possible. Accordingly, in 2015, a dedicated national budget of €19.5m has been directed towards protecting front-line services for...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Detention Centres Data (15 Dec 2015)

James Reilly: The children detention schools aim to provide safe and secure custody for children to the greatest extent possible, thanks to the ongoing efforts of management and staff working together. I have previously underlined that any and all incidents resulting in assault and injury to staff or young people are to be condemned and there is no “acceptable” level of assault or injury in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Properties (15 Dec 2015)

James Reilly: There are no ground rents payable by my Department. In relation to the three agencies under the aegis of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs (Tusla, the Adoption Authority of Ireland and the Office of the Ombudsman for Children) I have referred your query to each for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (15 Dec 2015)

James Reilly: The Government approved the publication of the Heads and General Scheme of the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015 last July. The Bill is intended to facilitate access to adoption information and operates on the basis of a presumption in favour of disclosing information in so far as is legally and constitutionally possible. The Bill will, for the first time, provide a statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (15 Dec 2015)

James Reilly: My Department administers a range of funding schemes and programmes to support the provision of youth services to young people throughout the country including those from disadvantaged communities. The funding schemes support national and local youth work provision to some 380,000 young people and involve approximately 1,400 youth work staff in 477 projects and 40,000 volunteers working in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care Education (15 Dec 2015)

James Reilly: The Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme was introduced in January 2010 to provide for one free pre-school year for children before they commenced primary school. Children aged between 3 year and 2 months and 4 years and 7 months in the relevant year qualified for the free provision. Those children qualifying for free pre-school in the 2015/2016 programme year were born...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care Education (17 Dec 2015)

James Reilly: Currently, children are entitled to one year’s free pre-school (i.e. 38 weeks during the academic year) under the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme. For the 2015-16 programme year, children who were born between 2 February 2011 and 30 June 2012 were eligible. In Budget 2016 it was announced that, from September 2016, children will be eligible to start free...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Freedom of Information Fees (17 Dec 2015)

James Reilly: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table. - 2014 2015* Initial Application Fees €360 €0.00 Search and Retrieval Fees €70 €0.00 Total Fees €430 €0.00*Under the Freedom of Information Act 2014, since 15 October, 2014 no initial application fee is payable in respect of Freedom of Information requests and if the time...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Poverty (17 Dec 2015)

James Reilly: Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures: the National Policy Framework for Children and Young People 2014 - 2020,was published and launched by Government in 2014. It provides the overarching framework for the development and implementation of policy and services for children and young people. This is a whole of government framework, implementation of which is overseen by my Department. Better...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ministerial Staff (17 Dec 2015)

James Reilly: There are six Ministerial appointees working in my Department, details of their roles and current salaries are set out in tabular format below. All of my Ministerial staff appointments have been made in accordance with Instructions for Ministerial Appointments as published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform 2014. Position Held Current Salary Special Adviser €87,258...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Legislative Process RIA (17 Dec 2015)

James Reilly: My Department was established on the 2nd June 2011. Since then I have published the Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012 (No. 78 of 2012), the Child and Family Agency Bill 2013 (No. 81 of 2013), the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2013 (No. 10 of 2013), the Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2013 (No. 133 of 2013), the Children First Bill 2014 (No. 30 of 2014), the Children...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (17 Dec 2015)

James Reilly: Funding will be provided in 2016 as part of the Early Years Capital Programme. I am currently considering how best this funding can be targeted in the context of building capacity in the early years sector to meet the new demands for places under the extended Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Programme. I hope to be in a position to announce the details of this programme of capital...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Garda Vetting of Personnel (17 Dec 2015)

James Reilly: The vetting system does not come under the remit of my Department. It is more appropriate to the Department of Justice and Equality, who have responsibility for the relevant legislation, namely the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Adults) Act 2012.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: After-School Support Services (17 Dec 2015)

James Reilly: Data on the main after-school childcare arrangements for primary-school children are available from the Growing Up in Ireland Study. These data show that: - 64% of five-year-old children are cared for at home by a parent after-school, 27% are in informal after-school childcare arrangements and 9% are in centre-based settings; and - 77% of nine-year-old children are cared for at home...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse (17 Dec 2015)

James Reilly: The Sexual Abuse and Violence in Ireland Study (SAVI 1) was published in 2002 following telephone research in which over 3,000 adults were surveyed. This resulted in a "snapshot" of the nature and extent of sexual violence in Ireland. The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre have submitted a proposal to a number of Government Departments regarding the completion of a second such "snapshot" survey. ...