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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (17 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 709. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of providing winter home care packages during the winter periods 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18, by county in tabular form. [15223/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (17 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 710. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of providing home care packages during the winter periods 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18, respectively, by county and in tabular form. [15224/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (17 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 711. To ask the Minister for Health the number of transitional care beds provided during the winter periods 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18, respectively, by county and in tabular form. [15225/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (17 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 712. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of providing transitional care beds during the winter periods 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18, respectively, by county and in tabular form. [15226/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Guidelines (17 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 1330. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department has written to employers of persons designated as mandated reporters under the Children First Act 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15177/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Guidelines (17 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 1331. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department has offered in-person training for persons designated as mandated reporters under the Children First Act 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15178/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Guidelines (17 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 1332. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a more specific definition of the term "relevant person" will be provided, who will serve as the first point of contact in respect of an organisation dealing with children and young persons as set out on page 30 of the Children First Guidelines 2017, if this person is a child protection officer; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Guidelines (17 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 1333. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department monitors organisations working with children and young persons to verify whether they have developed a child safeguarding statement. [15180/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Guidelines (17 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 1334. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department applies a sanction to organisations that have a statutory responsibility under the Children First Act 2015 to conduct a risk assessment and to prepare a child protection statement and they fail to do so; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15181/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Guidelines (17 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 1335. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the criteria by which Tusla social workers assess a child protection welfare concern that has been reported to the agency at the initial stage will be published; the criteria used to assess whether the concern should be given further examination; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15182/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (17 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 1340. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a child born on 1 January 2016 will be eligible to enrol in the ECCE programme commencing in September 2018 in view of the fact that a child born on this date will meet the ECCE minimum age criteria of two years and eight months of age. [15768/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Support Services (17 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 1343. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the methodology and criteria that her Department and Tusla used to select the locations of the 11 new family resource centres; the specific definitions and sources of data used; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16150/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Support Services (17 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 1344. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department used the Pobal HP deprivation index to determine the locations of the new family resource centres; and if not, the reason therefore. [16151/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the delegates for their presentations. It is not just digital marketing that targets children. Last week I was very critical of the "Big Big Movie" because of how it was marketed on RTÉ One. To move on from it, I have read the delegates' submissions in depth and prepared a number of questions. My first question is for Mr. Macey who mentioned that a healthy diet could be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: My next question is about the no-fry zones around schools and other jurisdictions. Are there studies which show the outcomes of having no-fry zones? A study on a ban on vending machines in French schools showed a reduction of between 20 and 120 calories in daily calorific intake. Is that meaningful? It is a very small number of calories. It may be a step in the right direction but I wish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: The small amount of research I have done, which is nothing like that carried out by the witnesses, revealed that some children in secondary school do not have the opportunity to participate in PE. Is that indicated in the research the witnesses have carried out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I have found that the two hours per week timetabled by the Department on the curriculum is not available to some children in school. As regards team sport, in which all schools like to participate, is it healthy for children to have to take part in team sports during their lunch hour whereby they have to cram in their food and flip between one session of school and going back in for the next?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: If we are to teach children anything about life, we must to teach them that they must make time to eat and that one's body cannot be maintained without fuel. The idea of the curriculum is to teach them a positive message in that regard. I ask Professor Sharry to explain the outcomes and measuring in terms of the Parents Plus healthy family programme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: What are Dr. Sharry's observations on it? He meets a number of families who come together and they start from whatever point. What are the results like? Can he give us some examples?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Dr. Sharry.