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Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Staff (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Tusla needs to think outside the box in this regard. While we acknowledge that it is under pressure in recruiting staff into the organisation, we should consider the opportunities available in terms of co-operating with advocacy groups. I am talking about EPIC and the role of YAP Ireland. We should engage more with these advocacy groups because they have a skill set to support Tusla. We...

Topical Issue Debate: Treatment Abroad Scheme (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, for taking my Topical Issue matter. Fianna Fáil has been contacted by Children’s Liver Disease Ireland, a voluntary organisation the aim of which is to support families who have a child with liver disease. It is a small group as liver disease in children is uncommon. Nonetheless, for those affected, it is a serious issue for...

Topical Issue Debate: Treatment Abroad Scheme (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister of State for his positive response, which was very welcome. From what I hear, funds will be made available to families through the treatment abroad fund. The cardiac cases are approved but the liver patient decisions will be made on a case-by-case basis, depending on the location of the patient. Will there be two different approaches for those in the west and in Louth?...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Homeless Accommodation Provision (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 56. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether hotel and bed and breakfast accommodation is suitable for homeless families; her further views on whether the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government is delivering on its responsibility to these families; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31216/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Homeless Accommodation Provision (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 550. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether hotel and bed and breakfast accommodation is suitable for homeless persons; her further views on whether the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government is delivering on its responsibility to these persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31229/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Poverty (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 46. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she is taking to address child poverty here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31218/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Establishment (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 54. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date by which she hopes to enact legislation on the single affordable childcare scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31217/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 403. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting the allocation of an appointment time from CAMHS, child and adolescent mental health service, by age group (details supplied) and by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31250/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Legislative Measures (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 543. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the Adoption (Information and Tracing) (No. 2) Bill; when she expects this Bill to be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30859/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Poverty (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 552. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she is taking to address child poverty here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31231/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 609. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the long delays for processing applications, reviews and appeals within the domiciliary care allowance and disability allowance sections of her Department; her plans to rectify the issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31423/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Funding (5 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister of State for taking our Topical Issue matter this evening. I will be begin by wishing him the very best in his new role. Yesterday, an article in The Irish Times, which the Minister of State might have read, stated that over 2,400 children were waiting for child mental health services. The Minister may ask what that has to do with the Topical Issue matter I raise. I...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Funding (5 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister of State for his response, but it is the response I expected. I have been raising this issue through communications with the former Minister of State, in the Department, Deputy McEntee, for the past number of months because a red flag was raised about it. I would have communicated with the Minister of State, Deputy McEntee, and the Minister, Deputy Harris and the...

Early Childhood Care and Education: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Deputy Funchion for tabling this motion this evening. I know it is something that both she and Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire have been very passionate about at committee in the months since I was elected. I heard all the Minister had to say and I welcome her response. She is quite right. There has been a gap from Government for a number of years, in particular in the previous...

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I ask that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to meet the president of the Irish Farmers' Association, IFA, today to discuss what Deputy Jackie Cahill is just after discussing.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (11 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 704. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the first and full-year cost of restoring funding to the school completion programme to 2011 levels. [32198/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme (11 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 705. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the percentage of the €19 million budget that has been committed to the affordable childcare scheme. [32199/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Community Childcare Subvention Programme (11 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 706. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of families that are expected to avail of each band of subsidy under the affordable child care measures that is being introduced in September 2017. [32200/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (11 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 733. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an oral hearing for a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied). [32174/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (11 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the delegates who have participated in the discussion. I am not a member of the committee and this is the first time I have engaged in a committee other than the one of which I am a member. I am here because of the pure frustration I felt after last year's onslaught, for which nobody could ever have prepared me as a newly elected representative. Ms McElduff and I exchanged numerous...