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

Anne Rabbitte: 633. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if funding is provided to unregistered crèches through Pobal or other means; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52623/19]

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

Anne Rabbitte: 634. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has considered introducing a fining system for crèches that are found to be in breach of their registration; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52624/19]

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

Anne Rabbitte: 647. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childcare places available for children that are 0 to one years of age available in counties Meath, Kildare, Louth, Wicklow and Dublin by local electoral area or town in each year since 2015, in tabular form. [52856/19]

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

Anne Rabbitte: 648. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childcare places available for children that are one to two years of age available in counties Meath, Kildare, Louth, Wicklow and Dublin by local electoral area or town in each year since 2015, in tabular form. [52857/19]

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

Anne Rabbitte: 649. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childcare places available for children that are two to three years of age available in counties Meath, Kildare, Louth, Wicklow and Dublin by local electoral area or town in each year since 2015, in tabular form. [52858/19]

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

Anne Rabbitte: 650. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childcare places available for children that are three to four years of age available in counties Meath, Kildare, Louth, Wicklow and Dublin by local electoral area or town in each year since 2015, in tabular form. [52859/19]

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

Anne Rabbitte: 651. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childcare places available for children that are 4 to 5 years of age available in counties Meath, Kildare, Louth, Wicklow and Dublin by local electoral area or town in each year since 2015, in tabular form. [52860/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Data (17 Dec 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: 652. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children on waiting lists for year 1 ECCE places in counties Meath, Kildare, Louth, Wicklow and Dublin by local electoral area or town in each year since 2015, in tabular form. [52861/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (17 Dec 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: 653. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the demographic or other research conducted in order to assess the number of childcare places needed in each county. [52862/19]

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

Anne Rabbitte: 654. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of full-time equivalent social workers employed on a permanent basis by Tusla in each year since 2014, in tabular form. [52863/19]

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

Anne Rabbitte: 655. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of full-time equivalent social workers employed on an agency basis by Tusla in each year since 2014, in tabular form. [52864/19]

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

Anne Rabbitte: 656. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of full-time equivalent social care workers employed on an agency basis by Tusla in each year since 2014, in tabular form. [52865/19]

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

Anne Rabbitte: 657. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of full-time equivalent social care workers on a permanent basis by Tusla in each year since 2014, in tabular form. [52866/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister and her colleagues for coming before us at short notice. I want to pick up on something that Deputy Sherlock raised. The Minister has answered other questions and I am not going to repeat them. I want to pick up on the services that received the extension to next June, which was based on planning permission and fire certification. They have that extension with Tusla...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: There is comfort in that. The 540 services that have looked for an extension to meet the deadline will also fall under the bracket of getting insurance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: A percentage of them, not all of them, are switching from one insurance provider to another. It will be a different set of criteria and the criteria will change such that they will not have fire certificates.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: The Minister was very clear about Early Childhood Ireland, which allows a discount for its members in respect of insurance of approximately 30%. There is a 10% increase in the rate for members of ECI that fall in under that group of 3,000. For the other 1,600, this is where Deputy Sherlock talks about the twofold, threefold or fourfold increase in insurance because they are not members of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: All committee members want to ensure that the childcare providers are able to open their doors on 1 January. If there was a dedicated line for Deputies that we as Oireachtas Members could use to contact the Minister, we could circumvent that to speed up the process where people find themselves in dire straits.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: Absolutely. I wanted to address one other issue that the Minister mentioned. It was not the personal comments about my press releases; it is to do with the comments on the critical, high, medium and low categorisation with Tusla, which she brought up in her opening statement. She said it is a compliance level for themselves as regards reaching the bar and so on. I have a response from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: That is fine.