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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (17 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: That covers the early years programme and the eight-point plan. I think there is a reasonably comprehensive answer to the Deputy's question at question No. 29. He spoke about the 4,200 different organisations, 30% of which are not for profit. I will let the Secretary General answer that question. In respect of the National Review Panel for Serious Incidents and Child Deaths, these are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (17 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: Fair enough, but it is a legal consideration that we cannot just dismiss. I will leave the questions about how many inspectors will be recruited and whether the Secretary General will provide a Labour Court ruling on the ECCE. Senator van Turnhout referred to the case of "Luke", which I have covered. We cannot but learn from this case. We have to learn from it and ensure we can look back...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (17 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: I thank Senator Henry and Deputy Catherine Byrne for their comments and I agree with them. While we must focus on children in care, my Department is to protect all children in the State and ensure they all get the best care during their childhoods and the best outcomes we can create. Many of these matters cut across public health issues, for example we do not want children smoking or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (17 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: I apologise. I meant to address the issue. I agree that the Child and Family Agency should come before the committee to discuss the reports. I would like some time to speak to the former Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald, as I have only just got my knees under the desk. I wish to get some advice in that regard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (17 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: It would be our intention that the committee would be able to interact. It is perfectly legitimate that the committee should do so.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: In 2013, €1.5m in capital funding was made available to my Department for a Youth Café scheme. Pobal assisted my Department to administer this scheme. In all 95 applications with proposals were received and some 30 proposals were approved for funding. These projects are currently working with Pobal to develop their projects to the next stage. An application from the project in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 710, 745, 748 and 749 together. The School Completion Programme (SCP) aims to retain young people in the formal education system to completion of senior cycle and to generally improve the school attendance, participation and retention of its target cohort. The SCP is a targeted intervention aimed at those school communities identified through the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Costs (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: My Department implements a number of programmes to support parents with the cost of childcare. The Community Childcare Subvention (CCS) programme provides funding to community childcare services to enable them to provide quality childcare at reduced rates to disadvantaged and low income working parents. The CCS programme, which is not provided through private or commercial childcare...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Provision (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 712 and 726 together. The Drugs Rehabilitation CE schemes have not experienced any reduction in funding in recent years. The significant contribution of resources from the Department of Social Protection to the drugs rehabilitation response includes the 1,000 dedicated CE places delivered through the CE Drug Rehabilitation Projects (DRP’s). The focus...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Safety (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: Section 12 of the Child Care Act 1991 provides for the removal of a child to a place of safety by an Garda Síochana in situations where it is believed that there is immediate and serious risk to the health or welfare of the child and the risk is such that it would not be appropriate to wait for the Child and Family Agency to make an application for an emergency care order. The Act...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: At the end of July 2014, there were 3,471.22 whole time equivalents employed at the Child and Family Agency. The information requested in respect of the appointment process would not normally be held in my Department and I have asked my officials to arrange for the Agency to supply this information directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Education Welfare Service Staff (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: As the Deputy will be aware the functions and operational responsibilities of the former National Educational Welfare Board (NEWB) are now part of the Child and Family Agency, which was established on 1st January 2014. Since this date the staff of the former NEWB, including its Education Welfare Officers (EWOs), have transferred to the new Agency. Within the Agency, the statutory Education...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: The Children Detention Schools in Oberstown are currently recruiting additional staff namely, 45 Residential Social Care Workers, 18 Night Supervisory Officers, 3 Unit Managers and 1 Clinical Nurse Manager (Grade 1). The 3 Unit Manager vacancies are being filled by way of internal promotion on the Oberstown campus. The other posts are being filled by way of open competition via the Public...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff Data (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 717 and 718 together. The information requested by the Deputy in respect of the years 2013 and 2014 is set out in tabular format below. The full year costs identified relates to the annual gross salary as adjusted under the Haddington Road Agreement. It does not take account of employer PRSI contributions nor any notional employer contribution for accrual of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 719 and 720 together. Children are eligible to avail of the free pre-school year under the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme when they are aged more than 3 years 2 months and less than 4 years 7 months at 1 September in the relevant year. Generally the situation is that where parents wish to transfer a child to another service, four...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, has responsibility for payment of Guardian ad litem and associated legal services under the Child Care Act 1991. I am informed that Tusla has made no referrals to the Taxing Master since its establishment on 1 January, 2014. The information sought for the period from 1 August, 2012 to 31 December 2013 i.e. that period of time when this matter was the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: After-School Support Services (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: The After-School Child Care (ASCC) programme was introduced in October 2013 specifically to provide after-school care for primary school children for certain categories of working parents for a once-off period of 52 weeks. A table giving the uptake figures for each City/County Childcare Committee region is below. Figures are not available separately for Dublin postal district areas....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Services Provision (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 723 and 724 together. The Child and Family Agency advises that there are approximately 25 whole time equivalent social workers dedicated to information and tracing. This figure does not include administrative and counselling services which also support the information and tracing service. The Agency advises that the Adoption Service with the Child and Family...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Data (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: The Child and Family Agency advises that it is currently in negotiations with all relevant parties in regard to the transfer of files from Holles Street, St. Brigid's and St. Patrick's Guild. The Agency anticipates that the process will be completed and the files transferred in early 2015.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Reports (17 Sep 2014)

James Reilly: "The Study of Young Carers in the Irish Population”, published by the then Department of Health and Children in 2010, highlights the importance of creating a better understanding of children as carers in Ireland. It found that it is very difficult to identify young carers in the population. In order to learn more about children that undertake caring roles, my Department requested...