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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Paternity Benefit (24 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 169. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that received statutory paternity benefit in 2017. [3525/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inspection Report on Oberstown Detention Centre: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I welcome the Minister and thank her for presentation. I would like to focus on the operational review that was carried out in October or November 2016. Dr. Niall Muldoon, the Ombudsman for Children, appeared at our previous meeting to discuss the review. He said that it was like working in a vacuum because the review had not been published. Who made the decision not to publish?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inspection Report on Oberstown Detention Centre: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her clarification. Can she understand why the Ombudsman for Children said that the report should be published and why we are asking so many questions? We are operating in the dark. The Minister had just been appointed in July 2016. It was a troubled time in Oberstown, which featured in the media on a continuous basis. There were issues at the centre but the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inspection Report on Oberstown Detention Centre: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister. A great deal of good work has been done. That can be sensed from the comments of Mr. Pat Bergin and Professor Ursula Kilkelly from the board of management during their appearance before the committee. Reading between the lines, there is a great deal going on. However, according to the HIQA report published last August, the centre was not compliant with eight out of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme and Related Matters: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Many of the questions I wished to raise have been answered already and I will not repeat them. One question I have relates to a matter Deputy Neville raised. What role will the child care providers play in the ICT roll-out of the scheme? I am concerned about their involvement in the new ICT set-up. Is that being factored into the way the scheme will be rolled out in regard to data or will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme and Related Matters: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: That is gorgeous. I like that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme and Related Matters: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: That goes without saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme and Related Matters: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: That is important. I thank Ms McGarrigle for that clarification. I have two question about the heads of the Bill. It relates to the 15 hours provision in the case of low-income parents where both parents may not be working for whatever reason. There was a big conversation around this last year. What is the position on the 15 hours provision? Has that remained under the heads of the Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme and Related Matters: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: My question relates to the 15 hours provision for low-income families.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme and Related Matters: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Is the pot of money that might be ring-fenced for those sponsor agreements held within the city and county child care committees, CCCs, within the Tusla budget, a HSE budget or within the Department budget? Once people have identified the need, who would they approach? I am just trying to understand the ring-fencing of the funding. Have the witnesses got to the stage of working out that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme and Related Matters: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Perfect. My understanding is that the money is held within the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme and Related Matters: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: That is okay. Lone parents who are trying to get back into education or full-time employment would also qualify for that. There would be the opportunity for them to apply for this depending on who the sponsor would be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme and Related Matters: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: It is very welcome to hear that. I assume the opportunities available to access it will be through the education and training boards, ETBs, or other sponsors as part of the education sphere, or will the person be able to make an application to the Department, or have the witnesses thought that out yet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme and Related Matters: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: How would, for example, a single mother trying to get back into education access that funding? I assume it will not be through the provider.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme and Related Matters: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: That is very welcome. I thank Ms McGarrigle.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Death Certificates (30 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 414. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in releasing a death certificate from Ballinasloe hospital (details supplied.). [4226/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (30 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 467. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adult, child and adolescent patients per annum that require mental health external placements; the locations of these placements; the services they provide, by each CHO, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4528/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Staff (30 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 468. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a staffing recruitment and retention plan for mental health services in CHO2, in view of the significant whole time equivalent gaps for community general adult services, community child and adolescent mental health services and psychiatry of old age services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4529/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Eligibility (30 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 559. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if under the affordable childcare scheme low-income parents that are not working or in training will be eligible for a maximum 15 hours child care per week. [4133/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Data (30 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 566. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding each CCC has received in each of the years 2008 to 2017, inclusive, and to date in 2018, inclusive of the administration of the child minding development grant, the access and inclusion model and the parent and toddler initiative, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4530/18]