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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ministerial Appointments (19 Feb 2013)

Frances Fitzgerald: I would like to inform the Deputy there are four agencies which are funded by the Exchequer through my Department's Vote. These are the Adoption Authority of Ireland (AAI); the Family Support Agency (FSA); the National Educational Welfare Board (NEWB) and the Ombudsman for Children. With effect from 1 January 2012, I have taken responsibility for the Children Detention Schools as provided...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ministerial Appointments (19 Feb 2013)

Frances Fitzgerald: I would like to inform the Deputy there are four agencies which are funded by the Exchequer through my Department's Vote. These are the Adoption Authority of Ireland (AAI); the Family Support Agency (FSA); the National Educational Welfare Board (NEWB) and the Ombudsman for Children. With effect from 1 January 2012, I have taken responsibility for the Children Detention Schools as provided...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Employment Rights Issues (19 Feb 2013)

Frances Fitzgerald: The issues raised by the Deputy relate in the main to the employment rights of au pairs. This represents a private contractual arrangement between an employer and an employee and, as such, is not for my Department. It is, therefore, more appropriate to have the matter considered by my colleague the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (19 Feb 2013)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Community Childcare Subvention (CCS) programme provides funding to community child care not-for-profit services to enable them to charge reduced child care rates to parents in receipt of social welfare payments or on low to middle incomes. Community child care services qualify for grant aid on the basis of the level of service they provide and the profile of the parents benefiting from...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Lottery Funding Applications (19 Feb 2013)

Frances Fitzgerald: There is no record of any current application for National Lottery funding with my Department from the organisation concerned. However, it will be open to the organisation to apply for funding under the 2013 National Lottery allocation made available to my Department and details of the funding scheme, including the related application form, will be available shortly on my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (19 Feb 2013)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Youth Affairs Unit of my Department supports the delivery of a range of youth work programmes and services for all young people, including those from disadvantaged communities, by the voluntary youth sector. Funding of €53.173m has been provided to my Department for the provision of youth services in 2013. Within this total funding, €1.75 has been provided in a new capital...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: State Agencies (20 Feb 2013)

Frances Fitzgerald: I can inform the Deputy that Schedules 1 and 2 of the Ombudsman for Children Act 2002 Act were repealed by the Ombudsman (Amendment) Act 2012 - section 22(e) - with effect from November 2012. My colleague Minister Howlin in the Department of Public Service and Reform reactivated the Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008 during the Summer of 2012. He proposed to make a number of revisions to the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (20 Feb 2013)

Frances Fitzgerald: Funding of €53.173m, including €1.75 for a new capital funding programme, has been provided to my Department in 2013 for the provision of youth services and programmes to young people throughout the country through a number of schemes. These schemes include the Youth Service Grant Scheme, the Special Projects for Youth Scheme, the Young People’s Facilities and Services...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Services (21 Feb 2013)

Frances Fitzgerald: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy with the most up-to-date information.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (21 Feb 2013)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Youth Affairs Unit of my Department supports the delivery of a range of youth work programmes and services for all young people, including those from disadvantaged communities, by the voluntary youth sector. Funding of €53.173m has been provided to my Department for the provision of youth services in 2013. Within this total funding, €1.75 has been provided in a new capital...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (21 Feb 2013)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Youth Affairs Unit of my Department supports the delivery of a range of youth work programmes and services for all young people, including those from disadvantaged communities, by the voluntary youth sector. Funding of €53.173m has been provided to my Department for the provision of youth services in 2013. Of this total funding, €1.75 has been provided in a new capital...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Support Agency (21 Feb 2013)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am firmly committed to the transformation of Ireland’s children and family service, and in this context, to the establishment as a priority of the new Child and Family Support Agency. The Agency, upon establishment, will assume full statutory responsibility for a range of child and family services currently provided by three separate agencies; namely the HSE, the Family Support...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Policy (26 Feb 2013)

Frances Fitzgerald: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Agencies (26 Feb 2013)

Frances Fitzgerald: Since the commencement of the Adoption Act, 2010, in November 2010 three agencies have been accredited by the Adoption Authority to facilitate intercountry adoptions: ARC, Family Bridge Adoptions and Helping Hands Mediation Agency. To date there have been no adoptions entered on the register of intercountry adoptions in relation to these agencies. The Adoption Authority advises that ARC...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Education (26 Feb 2013)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme was introduced in January 2010 and provides for one free pre-school year for all eligible children in the year before commencing primary school. The Government has made a very significant commitment in maintaining the pre-school year on a universal and free basis despite the current budgetary situation. The universal nature of this...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Education (26 Feb 2013)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme was introduced in January 2010, and a number of transitional measures were included to make it more acceptable to the childcare sector. One of these measures related to the number of weeks over which the free pre-school year could be provided. At that time, approximately 30% of children in the relevant age-cohort were in full daycare....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Support Agency (26 Feb 2013)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Government has approved the Heads of the Child and Family Support Agency Bill and has also agreed to the priority drafting of this Bill. The necessary legislative and organisational preparations are being prioritised so that the Agency can be established as soon as possible. The Agency, upon establishment, will assume full statutory responsibility for a range of child and family services...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Services (26 Feb 2013)

Frances Fitzgerald: The National Adoption Contact Register (NACPR) was established in 2005 to assist adopted people and their natural families to make contact with each other, exchange information or state their contact preferences. Applicants decide, through a range of information and contact options, how they wish to proceed. It is intended that the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2013 will provide...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Agencies (26 Feb 2013)

Frances Fitzgerald: The information requested by the Deputy is not held in my Department. I have asked my officials to liaise with the agencies under the aegis of my Department to obtain this information and to forward it to you shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Agencies (26 Feb 2013)

Frances Fitzgerald: The information requested by the Deputy is not held in my Department. I have asked my officials to liaise with the agencies under the aegis of my Department to obtain this information and to forward it to you shortly.