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Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (30 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: The Adoption Bill, 2009, is designed to give force of law to the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption. The new legislation, which incorporates the provisions of the Hague Convention, is designed to provide a framework to ensure that appropriate procedures have been followed and that all adoptions are effected in the best...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (30 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I regret that due to industrial action I am not in a position to provide a substantive response to your Parliamentary Question. If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with me again in due course.

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (30 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I have responsibility for implementation of the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006-2010 (NCIP). The company referred to by the Deputy, was approved under the NCIP for capital grant funding up to a maximum of €520,000, of which €501,093 has been paid to date. I understand that the company is seeking additional funding for the project and that Pobal, who assist my Office in the...

Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (31 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I have written to the HSE's Assistant National Director for Children and Families requesting that the child's case be examined under the terms of the HIQA Guidance for the HSE For the Review of Serious Incidents Including Deaths of Children in Care. An Garda Siochana has carried out extensive searches since the child's disappearance and efforts to locate the boy are continuing. I will make...

Written Answers — Child Abuse: Child Abuse (31 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I regret that due to industrial action I am not in a position to provide a substantive response to your Parliamentary Question. If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with me again in due course.

Written Answers — Child Abuse: Child Abuse (31 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I regret that due to industrial action I am not in a position to provide a substantive response to your Parliamentary Question. If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with me again in due course.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (31 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I regret that due to industrial action I am not in a position to provide a substantive response to your Parliamentary Question. If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with me again in due course.

Written Answers — Youth Diversion Projects: Youth Diversion Projects (31 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: Participant numbers in Garda Youth Diversion Projects for 2007 and 2008 were as follows:- Period Participants Jan - June 2007 3106 July - Dec 2007 3661 Jan - June 2008 3809 July - Dec 2008 4457 It should be noted that many of the participants attend across these time periods. The statistics for 2009 are currently being compiled.

Written Answers — Youth Diversion Projects: Youth Diversion Projects (31 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: The Annual Reports of the Committee appointed to monitor the effectiveness of the Garda Diversion Programme include details, by Garda Division, of the number of children referred to the Programme each year. The reports for period 2004 -2008 are available on the website of the Irish Youth Justice Service (www.iyjs.ie). I hope to be a position to publish the report for 2009 in the near future.

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: ): This amendment relates to the enactment of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and I will accept it.

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: The provision of special care has been the subject of considerable research in recent years, including last year, when the Children Acts Advisory Board commissioned an independent report, which will provide an overview of the applications for admission to special care made by the HSE's local health officers. It traces and tracks outcomes for the children who were the subject of such...

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I agree that we want to adhere to and surpass the best international practice. There is no reason we should not since we are an advanced industrialised nation that probably knows more about the damage that can be done to children in institutions than any other country. We want to learn not only from the past but also from our neighbours. We also want to surpass the high standards we have...

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I will ask it to examine international comparisons. We are learning something from our neighbouring jurisdictions regarding the co-location of high-support and special care services on our various campuses.

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I will represent the idea to the HSE but I cannot speak on the HSE's behalf.

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I cannot second-guess the decision to disallow the proposed amendment and I am slightly restricted in what I can say. The existing section 5 of the 1991 Child Care Act talks about suitable accommodation. It does not go into the detail of laundry facilities, toilets, wash basins or recreational facilities, which are all very admirable and things we would expect. In order to reflect what we...

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I simply commented, by way of an aside, that it was unusual the amendment restricted itself to accommodation standards. If one is to include such details in legislation, why would one restrict oneself to accommodation standards? That is why it would be more appropriate not to include such detail in primary legislation.

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I am sympathetic to the points that have been made. As Senators Norris and Fitzgerald said, language has a capacity to effect change. I also believe that. However, the proposed amendment underlines the difficulty of the situation in that it is proposed to substitute the word "rehabilitation", which implies some previous wrongdoing. The capacity of the criminal justice system to...

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I do not know.

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: The debate is a very useful one because it underlines the difficulties in this area. As Senator Alex White said, one does not want to include particular language in the Bill for the sake of it and to make it sound less than it really is. There needs to be precision and clarity about what is meant and what we are trying to achieve in this legislation. Special care is a unique form of care...

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: All placements should be secure.