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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Youth Services Provision (7 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: What the Minister is after telling me is quite worrying because it leads me to believe that, in terms of the work YAP Ireland carries out, Galway is just the first to see these jobs cut. That is what it would indicate to me. If that is the decision we have made at a local level in Galway, it means that the other 22 centres nationwide will possibly be hit. Tusla would not have made that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Affordable Childcare Scheme Implementation (7 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 3. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the implementation of the affordable childcare scheme; the date by which the information and communications technology system will be operational; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46137/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Affordable Childcare Scheme Implementation (7 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Will the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs tell us about the status of the implementation of the affordable childcare scheme and the date by which the information and communications technology system will be operational?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Affordable Childcare Scheme Implementation (7 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for all of that information. The one question I have is on her degree of confidence that the scheme will be delivered in October 2019. To reel back through the years, the scheme was announced in budget 2016 but we realised legislative changes were required in March 2017. That meant we did not hit the targeted launch in 2017. We looked forward to 2018, but failed to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Affordable Childcare Scheme Implementation (7 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Is the Minister saying that the families who apply in October 2019 will receive an immediate benefit under the scheme from November 2019? It is not the families coming forward in August 2020 that will the first families to benefit. Rather, it will be the families in next year's cycle who will benefit. I pick up on the Minister's point about mygov.ie. Is it the case that when some families...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I refer to the commitment on page 109 of the programme for Government to protect farm incomes. My question concerns hardship payments to farmers whose stock could be locked up owing to the presence of TB and who are waiting for various veterinary inspections to be carried out. The 60-day rule applies in the summer, as well as in the winter. We have had 18 months of bad weather. In...

Apprenticeships: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank my colleague, Deputy Thomas Byrne, for giving me the opportunity to speak to the motion. As a former chairperson of the Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board, GRETB, in Galway, I understand the value of the apprenticeship programme. I attended an awards ceremony for young people who had come through the crisis and whose employers had stood with them when there was a...

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2018: From the Seanad (7 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I want to speak to the last portion of the Bill that the Minister spoke about introducing relating to the certificate of fitness. I am homing in on the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956. Fianna Fáil brought forward a Gambling Control Bill and I feel this is diluting it. Listening to the Minister's statement, I understand what he is saying. At what stage are he and the Minister of State,...

Children's Health Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (7 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the two amendments. To respond to the Minister of State on amendment No. 2, I find it difficult to understand the reason for not including the term "mental health" in the Bill given that mental health is as important as physical health and that this relates to the children's hospital. I support the amendment. I agree with the Minister of State on...

Children's Health Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (7 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I understand where Deputy Ó Snodaigh is coming from on this issue. In Galway the health forum provides an opportunity for public representatives, advocacy groups and other persons to participate. It allows everybody to contribute. I note the Minister of State's point that in the future, when the next children's hospital has been established, she will review and engage on the issue in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Implementation (7 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 16. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the implementation of the affordable childcare scheme; the date by which the information and communications technology system will be operational; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45934/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (7 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 27. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether the school completion programme is sufficiently funded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45937/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (7 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 31. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to Tusla's decision to terminate its service level agreement with a programme (details supplied) in County Galway and the negative impacts this will have with young persons in the county. [45933/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Guardians Ad Litem (7 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 38. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of her Department's reform of the guardian ad litem service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45936/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (15 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 135. To ask the Minister for Health when a procedure will be scheduled for a person (details supplied). [47559/18]

Childcare Price Transparency Bill 2018: First Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I move:That leave be granted to introduce Bill entitled an Act to require all childcare providers to provide price notices outlining the prices charged for each of their services in their physical premises and on any online platform which their business maintains for the purposes of advertising their services; and to allow the Minister to establish a National Childcare Price Register. Today I...

Childcare Price Transparency Bill 2018: First Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance Issues in Scouting Ireland: Discussion (21 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister very much for her presentation this morning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance Issues in Scouting Ireland: Discussion (21 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her presentation but I will focus on what she did not say in it, and on what she just said. She referred to information that came to her last night. That is probably the most shocking part of her entire presentation this morning. It is probably too soon to ask where the Department sits in relation to funding. I will be asking Scouting Ireland later whether any of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance Issues in Scouting Ireland: Discussion (21 Nov 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Of course. I thank the Minister.