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Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (31 Mar 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the total amount of money paid for solicitors and barristers in respect of guardians [i]ad litem[/i] per year for each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14106/10]

Written Answers — Drug Treatment Programme: Drug Treatment Programme (31 Mar 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 122: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide details on drug treatment facilities for children; the number of residential detox and residential rehabilitation beds for children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14107/10]

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (27 Apr 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration is being given to the State undertaking a valuation of a bank's (details supplied) art collection; if he will require the bank, in consideration of the support provided by the State and taxpayers, to gift the collection to the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16525/10]

Written Answers — Misuse of Drugs: Misuse of Drugs (27 Apr 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the operation of a head shop directly opposite a secondary school (details supplied) in Dublin 6; the action that she plans to take to address the concerns expressed by the parents of the children attending this school; when she plans to introduce the appropriate legislation to regulate both the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Apr 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm the number of Health Service Executive special care units; the names, addresses and contact details of each unit; the management structure and the number of children for which each unit is certified; the plans that the HSE has regarding a special care unit (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (27 Apr 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 183: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the inquiries she has made into the circumstances surrounding an alleged burglary of 15 Health Service Executive laptop computers at the community care offices in Roscommon town which occurred prior to the commencement by the group (details supplied) inquiring into the circumstances surrounding the Roscommon incest case; if the laptop...

Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (27 Apr 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 184: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will inquire from the Health Service Executive the reason for the decision made to close down the emergency HSE unit for troubled young persons in Galway; the number of young persons in private residential places being paid for by the HSE; the weekly cost to the HSE for such private residential care provided throughout 2009 and...

Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (27 Apr 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the long waiting lists encountered by adult adopted children tracing birth parents through the Health Service Executive, with such long lists resulting in an inordinate delay in the processing of such applications; the numbers of such adoptive persons whose applications for tracing services are...

Written Answers — Vetting of Personnel: Vetting of Personnel (27 Apr 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 242: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Irish citizens who are required by a prospective employer located and registered outside this State to provide proof of no convictions in this State cannot currently obtain such proof from An Garda Síochána or any other State agency for the purposes of obtaining...

Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (27 Apr 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 243: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the protocol, if any, in existence regarding communications between An Garda Síochána and the Health Service Executive in relation to children in the care of the HSE who go missing; if copies of any such protocols will be furnished to this Deputy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16522/10]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 Apr 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 386: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science if she will prioritise the advancement of the building project in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16, architectural plans having been submitted to her Department since March 2008; if her attention has been drawn to the poor structural condition of the school; the reason an application to the summer...

Written Answers — School Enrolments: School Enrolments (27 Apr 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 385: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science the number of children between the ages of five years and 16 years attending a recognised primary or post-primary school; the numbers of such children undergoing home education; and the steps being taken by the State to ensure each child receives an education of appropriate standard. [16523/10]

Child Welfare and Protection Services: Statements (29 Apr 2010)

Alan Shatter: I listened with interest to the Minister of State's speech. I do not believe that within the limited time available to me I will have an opportunity to address each of the topics raised by the him but will try to cover a number of them which are of considerable importance. The first issue I wish to address is the holding of a children's rights referendum. It is now nine or ten weeks since...

Child Welfare and Protection Services: Statements (29 Apr 2010)

Alan Shatter: Waterford.

Child Welfare and Protection Services: Statements (29 Apr 2010)

Alan Shatter: Is there resistance to this buy-in?

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (5 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce amending legislation regarding probate values given to homes in the 2006 and 2007 period which are grossly unrealistic and over-valued and which have, since the furnishing of such valuations, proved impossible to sell at the valuation price to the detriment of testamentary beneficiaries who have been fixed with inheritance...

Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (5 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made, if any, to facilitate the completion of adoptions in Vietnam by persons who were promised assistance in completing such adoptions almost a year ago; and if she will clarify the current position. [18100/10]

Written Answers — Broadcasting Legislation: Broadcasting Legislation (5 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 346: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans regarding Irish broadcasting masts in the vicinity of the Border following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Irish and UK governments, which provides a framework for continuing co-operation on broadcasting issues on the island of Ireland; if it is envisaged that control and or...

Order of Business (11 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Taoiseach has just grossly misrepresented the report of the Ombudsman for Children. The report is a damning indictment of the political failure of this Government, successive Ministers for Health and Children and the Minister of State with responsibility for children to properly ensure that the child protection guidelines are applied.

Order of Business (11 May 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Government and the Department are accused of unsound administration under section 8 of the legislation that created the Office of the Ombudsman for Children. That is a very unusual decision by an ombudsman, and by the Ombudsman for Children.