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Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: We need to see real action from this Government to protect the services needed by the most vulnerable people.

Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: I welcome the announcement by the Taoiseach in the Dáil on Tuesday that the independent review into the death of children in the care of the State will be published this coming Wednesday. This is appropriate, considering the Government has had the report since before Christmas. When can we expect the fifth report of the special rapporteur on child protection to be laid before the Houses?...

Animal Diseases (14 Jun 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Food and the Marine his plans to review the TB testing programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28538/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (19 Jun 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health when he expects to publish the report on symphysiotomy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29461/12]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (19 Jun 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 557: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide clarity on the situation nationally regarding the level of complementary funding from the Health Service Executive that is provided to county childcare committees if this funding is being withdrawn as a national or local decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29354/12]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (19 Jun 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 558: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that funding provided by the Health Service Executive to Donegal County Childcare Committee to enable it to provide quality support to the Donegal Childcare sector will be continued for 2013. [29376/12]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (19 Jun 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 559: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the fact that the only local support to non-regulated childminders is provided through the Health Service Executive funded Childminders' Advisory Worker post within a number of County Childcare Committees, the bodies that will support this sector when HSE funding is discontinued; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (19 Jun 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 560: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if funding will be continued in 2013 in order that local support to non-regulated childminders in County Donegal provided by the Health Service Executive funded Childminders' Advisory Worker post in Donegal County Childcare Committee will continue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29378/12]

Written Answers — Preschool Services: Preschool Services (19 Jun 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 561: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the recent announcement that a condition will be added to new early childhood care and education scheme contracts to require participating service providers to use Síolta: The National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education (2006) and Aistear: the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework (2009) to provide an...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (19 Jun 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 565: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the financial supports she intends to put in place to assist full-time working parents who pay fees for children provision who are outside the bands of the community childcare subvention scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29863/12]

Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (19 Jun 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 743: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which he will announce the sports capital grant programme 2012 beneficiaries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29874/12]

Order of Business (20 Jun 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: The report of the review panel inquiring into the deaths of children in care in the State was published today. The review deals with deaths up to 2010 and will, undoubtedly, raise many serious issues concerning the child protection system. It is important that we ensure time is set aside in the Dáil next week to debate the report, learn the lessons to be learned therefrom and ensure we act...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (20 Jun 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the fact that childcare funding schemes are presenting more demands on childcare services to avail of particular training and have certain competencies and that in-service training is often carried out by early childhood staff voluntarily on their own time, the solutions she plans to put forward to address this...

Written Answers — National Children's Strategy: National Children's Strategy (20 Jun 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 147: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a national training programme around the implementation of Síolta and Aistear will be a key feature of the forthcoming National Children and Young People Policy Framework (2012-2017); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29844/12]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (20 Jun 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the low number of voluntary Health Service Executive notified childminders nationally, her plans to regulate this sector by bringing all paid childminders under the Childcare Pre-School Regulations, 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29846/12]

Written Answers — Foreign Adoptions: Foreign Adoptions (20 Jun 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 149: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding Irish citizens adopting children from Florida in the USA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29973/12]

Child Care Services (21 Jun 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle, for selecting this issue, following the publication of the report of the child death review panel yesterday. The report made for harrowing reading, showing that 196 children in the care of the State or known to the State and the HSE since 2000 died, 112 of whom died from unnatural causes. At the outset I commend the work of the report's authors, Geoffrey...

Child Care Services (21 Jun 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. The challenge of reforming our child protection system and making it fit for purpose does not begin or end with the publication of the report. The challenge to ensure proper and appropriate services are delivered to vulnerable children must continue to be met daily. The report published yesterday relates to the period 2000 to March 2010. Since...

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (21 Jun 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Defence the role that the Irish Defence Forces will play in the UN mission in Syria: if their preparation has changed in view of the deteriorating in the situation there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29944/12]

Written Answers — Domiciliary Care Allowance: Domiciliary Care Allowance (21 Jun 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 79: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the outcome of a medical review of a domiciliary care allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30164/12]