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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Katherine Zappone: As I said, I have received, as the Deputy has, a lot of ongoing correspondence and communication with the board on what is from its perspective, as well as others' perspectives, a very unsatisfactory process. On that basis, at this point, I am not asking for the report's publication because of the legal risks involved. I have indicated that. The Deputy's question has to do with the fact...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Katherine Zappone: That is also my interest.

Personal Explanation by Minister (19 Dec 2018)

Katherine Zappone: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to return to the House to correct the record of the Dáil. When responding to Question No. 11 on Thursday, 13 December, I misread a piece of information that stated something did not happen when it did, in fact, take place. In response to Question No. 11 I stated that factual accuracy checks of the operational review report of the Oberstown...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (19 Dec 2018)

Katherine Zappone: I am very conscious that the School Completion Programme (SCP) delivers a valuable service for some of our most vulnerable young people. The Programme is a core and continuing component of provision under the Educational Welfare Services (EWS). Tusla EWS have advised that approximately 38,000 children and young people per annum have come into contact with the programme annually, since SCP's...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (19 Dec 2018)

Katherine Zappone: I refer the Deputy to my response to Dáil Question number 601 (Proof Number 614) of 17 December 2018.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Detention Centres Staff (19 Dec 2018)

Katherine Zappone: I am informed by Oberstown Children Detention Campus that the cost of recruiting an extra 80 Residential Social Care Workers on the first point of scale is €3,076,529.78 per annum including allowances and employer's PRSI.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Advertising Expenditure (19 Dec 2018)

Katherine Zappone: Details of the costs incurred by my Department in relation to public advertising and communications support over the course of 2018 are set out in the tables below. The overall objective is to keep costs of this nature to a minimum and these services are only used when deemed necessary in the course of Departmental activity. Advertising (including social media) Campaign Cost Public...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Services Provision (19 Dec 2018)

Katherine Zappone: The matter raised by the Deputy is primarily a policy matter for the Department of Health. I would recommend that the Deputy contact my colleague, the Minister for Health, for a substantive reply on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (19 Dec 2018)

Katherine Zappone: The Programme for a Partnership Government 2016 committed that a new in-school speech and language therapy service would be established to support young children as part of a more integrated support system. The demonstration project is developing and evaluating a model for the delivery of in-school and early years therapy support (both speech and language therapy and also occupational...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (19 Dec 2018)

Katherine Zappone: My Department administers a range of funding schemes and programmes to support the provision of youth services to young people throughout the country. In 2018, youth funding of €58.9m was provided to my Department. These youth funding schemes include the Youth Service Grant Scheme under which funding is made available on an annual basis to 30 national and major regional youth...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Homelessness Strategy (19 Dec 2018)

Katherine Zappone: The government is determined to end the homelessness crisis. I take part in all cabinet discussions on homelessness and actively contribute across all policy responsibilities with my lens as the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. I have had 8 bi-lateral discussions with the Ministers with responsibility for Housing, Planning and Local Government since my appointment as Minister to...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (19 Dec 2018)

Katherine Zappone: I propose to take Questions Nos. 505 and 506 together. The detailed information is currently being collated by my Department and will be forwarded directly to the Deputy in the near future.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services Funding (19 Dec 2018)

Katherine Zappone: Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, has statutory responsibility for care and protection for victims of domestic, sexual or gender-based violence, whether in the context of the family or otherwise. Accordingly, Tusla has provided funding to rape crisis centres since its creation in 2014. I have requested that Tusla respond directly to the Deputy on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (15 Jan 2019)

Katherine Zappone: I thank Deputy Healy-Rae for his question regarding the Early Learning and Care sector. I have been unequivocal in my support for better pay and conditions for Early Learning and Care staff. Early Learning and Care practitioners play a critical role in supporting young children's early learning and development and providing a safe and caring environment. They deserve to be recognised,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Schemes (15 Jan 2019)

Katherine Zappone: The 2018 parent and toddler grant scheme has now been completed and all available funding allocated. Consequently there is no option or plan to reopen the scheme at this stage. However, I have secured a similar level of funding to run the scheme again in 2019. Details of this scheme are currently the subject of discussion between my officials and Pobal and details will be announced as soon...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Registration (15 Jan 2019)

Katherine Zappone: I am aware of this petition and am committed to the process of notifying people who are affected by illegal registrations identified on the files of St. Patrick's Guild and providing these individuals with as much information as possible regarding their identity. Tusla social workers are supporting these individuals as they deal with the news that they have been illegally registered at...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (15 Jan 2019)

Katherine Zappone: The cost incurred by my Department for the use of taxi services in 2018 amounts to €11,192.08. This amounts to an average of €0.70 per person per week based on headcount in my Department. My Department avails of a Public Service Framework for the Provision of Taxi Services in the Greater Dublin Area. This framework is expected to achieve significant cost reductions for the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence (15 Jan 2019)

Katherine Zappone: Tusla, the Child and Family Agency has statutory responsibility for the care and protection of victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. I have requested Tusla to respond directly to the Deputy on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (15 Jan 2019)

Katherine Zappone: The Access and Inclusion Model (AIM) is a programme of supports designed to enable children with a disability to access and fully participate in the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme. It was introduced in June 2016 and is administered by Pobal on behalf of my Department. AIM supports children with disabilities to attend mainstream pre-school where they can learn and...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (15 Jan 2019)

Katherine Zappone: As the Deputy is aware, the provision of emergency accommodation to families experiencing homelessness is a matter for the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, the Housing Agencies and (in Dublin) the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive (DRHE). My Department does not provide Children First Training for managers of emergency accommodation and is thus not in a position to...