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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Regulation (16 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: 236. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if issues at a crèche (details supplied) were flagged with her Department; if so, when; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42438/19]

Topical Issue Debate: Beef Industry (17 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: Deputy Fitzmaurice and I want to discuss a date to reconvene the new beef task force. We are raising this issue today because the inaugural meeting of the task force, due last Monday, did not take place. My understanding is that when representatives of the Beef Plan Movement, the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association, INHFA, and Meat Industry Ireland, MII, turned up for the meeting, one...

Topical Issue Debate: Beef Industry (17 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister of State for his reply but, regrettably, he has not provided what I sought, namely, a date. We all acknowledge the pressure on family farms. The formation of the new beef task force was one of the nuggets of the agreement secured on 15 September which encouraged people to step away from the picket lines. We need a date for when it will reconvene. We all agree that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Legal Cases (17 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: 202. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid out by the HSE for legal or expert fees between 2014 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; the external firms used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42722/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Regulation (17 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: 283. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the considerable inconvenience that has been caused to parents by the closure of a facility (details supplied). [42664/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Regulation (17 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: 284. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if additional supports are being offered to parents affected by the closure of a facility (details supplied). [42665/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Regulation (17 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: 285. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the closure of a facility (details supplied). [42666/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Childcare Scheme (17 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: 287. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date by which the information and communications system needed to operate the national childcare scheme will become operational; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42692/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Education and Training Scheme (17 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: 288. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a person who would have been eligible for old childcare subvention schemes such as the CETS scheme but did not enrol in advance of 2019 will still be able to enrol for the CETS scheme and level of funding; and if this parent is only eligible for the national childcare scheme rate of subsidy. [42693/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse (17 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: 289. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of unsolicited complaints of child abuse made to an organisation (details supplied) between January 2018 and to date in 2019; if such complaints related to historical cases or present day; if Tusla was informed of each complaint; the way in which such complaints were managed; if this process was within the bounds of child...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse (17 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: 290. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of unsolicited complaints of child abuse an organisation (details supplied) passed on to Tusla between January 2018 and to date in 2019; if the relevant officials in Tusla have investigated such complaints to decide if they are deemed founded or unfounded; the number of complaints passed on to An Garda Síochána; and...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse (17 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: 291. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an allegation of historical child sex abuse has been deemed founded by Tusla, if it is then referred to An Garda Síochána and the DPP for further investigation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42719/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Childcare Scheme (17 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: 292. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 690 of 9 July 2019, the status of her plans to publish the details of these agreements in view of the significant delays that have been encountered and the serious negative impact the lack of clarity is having on those who will be administering the schemes; the timeline for the completion of the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Funding (17 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: 296. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the breakdown of the increased allocation of funding provided to Tusla for 2020; if this increase will be reflected in funding dispersed to community and voluntary organisations funded under section 56 of the Child and Family Agency Act 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42836/19]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services Inspections (22 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: 52. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether it is satisfactory that parents are not informed when a crèche is placed at the critical level by Tusla; and her further views on whether it should be addressed. [43572/19]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services Inspections (22 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: I will try to keep the flow going.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services Inspections (22 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: I know and I am not saying the Ceann Comhairle did. Does the Minister believe it is satisfactory that parents are not informed when a crèche is placed at critical level by Tusla? Does she believe this should be addressed? Is she confident that her Department and herself are fully aware of crèches that are deemed high or critical risk? I seek reassurance for parents.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services Inspections (22 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her response. I am glad she drew on the hearings of the joint committee last July regarding the 37 crèches. Since then, I have received responses to parliamentary questions whereby it appears 595 crèches are on a risk rating register at present. The Minister is correct that this can be for a number of reasons but, at the same time, the concern is that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services Provision (22 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: 54. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the national childcare scheme will be fully operational and open to all parents. [43573/19]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services Provision (22 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: My question asks the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to clarify when the national childcare scheme will be fully operational and open to all parents.