Results 961-980 of 7,359 for speaker:Katherine Zappone
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services Provision (9 Jun 2016)
Katherine Zappone: There is a wide range of child and family support services available through both the statutory and non statutory sectors. These include services provided by Government Departments, other state agencies and an extensive network of non-governmental organisations. Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, allocates funding of approximately €100m to 700 voluntary organisations to provide...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (9 Jun 2016)
Katherine Zappone: My Department receives regular detailed reports on key performance and activity indicators of service provision, including on children in care, from the Child and Family Agency, Tusla. My officials have regular meetings on a monthly and quarterly basis with Tusla management to review the overall level of service provision, including areas in need of improvement. In addition to regular...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Bullying in the Workplace (9 Jun 2016)
Katherine Zappone: The Action Plan On Bullying: Report of the Anti-Bullying Working Group to the Minister for Education and Skills was published in January 2013 and clearly recognised the necessity to tackle this issue in a holistic way which saw schools as pivotal, but placed the issue within a much wider social context. Cyberbullying is just one aspect of bullying, but one which, given the rapid expansion of...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (9 Jun 2016)
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 including those from disadvantaged communities. The funding schemes support national and local youth work provision to some 380,000 young people and involve approximately 1,400 youth work staff in 477 projects and 40,000 volunteers working in...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Juvenile Offenders (9 Jun 2016)
Katherine Zappone: The Children Detention Schools, based in Oberstown, Lusk, Co. Dublin, continue to deliver services focused on education and rehabilitation of all young people detained in order to address offending behaviour and to support their early re-integration into the community. The development project recently completed in Oberstown includes a new purpose-built education, training and recreation...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Wards of Court (9 Jun 2016)
Katherine Zappone: Wardship is dealt with by the President of the High Court and the affairs of all Wards of Court are confidential. The Office of Wards of Court is part of the Courts Service. As this office comes within the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Justice and Equality, I will refer the Deputy's question to Minister Fitzgerald for direct reply. I understand that the purpose of Wardship is to...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mental Health Awareness (9 Jun 2016)
Katherine Zappone: I am aware that there is a great deal of research in the public domain in relation to the issues raised by the Deputy. My Department funds and oversees the ‘Growing Up in Ireland’ national longitudinal study, which collects a wide range of data across a number of key domains of children’s lives, including data relating to issues of concern and stress. The study monitors...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Play and Recreation Policies (9 Jun 2016)
Katherine Zappone: The provision of play and recreation facilities is primarily a matter for Local Authorities. My Department administers a Capital Grant Funding Scheme for Play and Recreation. The Schemewas introduced in 2013 to support new and existing play and recreation facilities for children and young people. The total amount of funding available in 2016 is €250,000, with a maximum grant of...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (9 Jun 2016)
Katherine Zappone: A supervision order, granted by the District Court under section 19 of the Child Care Act 1991, as amended, gives Tusla the authority to visit and monitor the health and welfare of the child. It also allows the Court to give directions as to the care of the child to the parent/s or guardian(s) at the time of the making of the order or at any other time while the order is in place. Under the...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (14 Jun 2016)
Katherine Zappone: The issue referred to by the Deputy is a matter for Tusla the Child and Family Agency and I have asked them to reply to the Deputy directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (14 Jun 2016)
Katherine Zappone: The information sought by the Deputy has been requested from the Child and Family Agency. I will respond directly to the Deputy when the information is received.
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Reports (14 Jun 2016)
Katherine Zappone: I welcome the findings of the Health Information and Quality Authority’s (HIQA) 2015 overview report of their independent inspections of the Child and Family Agency, Tusla, child protection and children in care services. The report stated that, overall, HIQA found standards across all three areas of residential, foster care and child protection to be good. There was professional...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Social Workers Recruitment (14 Jun 2016)
Katherine Zappone: Tusla is implementing a national caseload management system which allows management to monitor caseloads in terms of both number and complexity. It is recognised that, from time to time, individual cases can occupy a disproportionate amount of resources. The caseload management system gives managers a clearer insight into the pressures on staff. My Department continues to monitor the...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Social Workers Recruitment (14 Jun 2016)
Katherine Zappone: Workforce planning is an essential tool for anticipating possible future developments and maintaining a well-structured workforce of an appropriate size, which is able to meet the changing needs of the public service in a cost-efficient manner. Tusla is currently engaged in developing its Workforce Planning capacity and has prepared an initial medium term analysis of social work resource...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (14 Jun 2016)
Katherine Zappone: The Department of Children and Youth Affairs did not incur any expenditure in relation to the Public Sector Times Magazine in 2015.
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (14 Jun 2016)
Katherine Zappone: The information is in the table. Publication No. Purchased Irish Times 2 per day Irish Independent 2 per day The Examiner 2 per day The Star 2 per day The Sun 2 per day Daily Mirror 2 per day The Herald 2 per day Daily Mail 2 per day The amount paid in 2015 by my Department in respect of daily newspapers was €2819.71.These newspapers were supplied to my office and my...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff Data (14 Jun 2016)
Katherine Zappone: I propose to take Questions Nos. 638 and 640 together. The Human Resources Unit of my Department has 11.23 whole-time equivalent staff assigned to it and has responsibility for managing the internal HR corporate function, including organisational design, workforce planning and learning & development. The HR Unit also has an external governance and oversight role relating to the...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ministerial Staff (14 Jun 2016)
Katherine Zappone: At present there are two civil service members of staff working exclusively on constituency matters. In addition to this, I also have a Personal Assistant who also works on constituency matters on my behalf.
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (14 Jun 2016)
Katherine Zappone: The childcare facilities in question have been operated as private limited companies and my Department was made aware of the impending closure of these services late on Thursday June 2nd. My Department is aware of the difficulties the closures of the three Tic Toc Nursery Services have imposed on families and on staff who work there. My Department funds 30 City and County Childcare...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (14 Jun 2016)
Katherine Zappone: My Department provided funding of €300,000 for the Barnardos/One Family Child Contact Centres pilot project over a period of two years, i.e. from mid 2011 to mid 2013. Additional funding was provided by the Health Service Executive (€60,000), the Family Support Agency (€90,000) and Ballymun Regeneration (€90,000). This service was established on a pilot basis in...