Results 1,821-1,840 of 16,537 for speaker:Brian Lenihan Jnr
- Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (6 Jul 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive (HSE) under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy. The process...
- Written Answers — Unaccompanied Minors: Unaccompanied Minors (6 Jul 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: Information in relation to separated children seeking asylum was not routinely collected by my Department prior to 2001. The information held in this Department on Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum collected as part of the Interim Dataset is set out in the table below. Year No. of UAMS Coming to Attention of HSE No. Reunited with Family No. Placed in Care of HSE No. Found not to be...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (6 Jul 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: The new National Childcare Investment Programme (NCIP) 2006-2010 will provide a proactive response grounded in an understanding of local needs, to the development of quality childcare supports and services, including services for school going children. As the Deputy will be aware, I have responsibility for the NCIP and the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme (EOCP) 2000-2006, which are...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (6 Jul 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: As the Deputy will be aware, I have responsibility for the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme 2000-2006 (EOCP) and the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006-2010 (NCIP), which are being implemented by the newly established Office of the Minister for Children. The need to support the further development of childcare services for children of school-going age, including before and...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (6 Jul 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: Proposals for the process of development of the National Childcare Training Strategy are currently under consideration. It is envisaged that this process will build on the work of the Certifying Bodies Subgroup of the National Childcare Co-ordinating Committee, which drew up a Model Framework for childcare training in 2002. The process will be fully inclusive of all stakeholders who will...
- Nursing Homes: Motion. (27 Sep 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Ãireann" and substitute the following: "welcomes the largest ever expansion made by the Government in funding of services for older people by the provision of â¬110 million additional revenue funding in the Budget announcement for 2006 (â¬150 million full year cost); supports the Government's commitment to introducing legislation in...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (27 Sep 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: Proposals for the process of development of the National Childcare Training Strategy are currently being finalised. The National Childcare Training Strategy will be the output of this process, which will build on the previous work of the Certifying Bodies Subgroup of the National Childcare Co-ordinating Committee in this area. The process will be fully inclusive of all stakeholders in the...
- Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (27 Sep 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: I propose to take Questions Nos. 165, 178 and 792 together. Adoptions from Vietnam are carried out under the terms of a bi-lateral adoption agreement between Ireland and Vietnam which both Governments ratified in early 2004. Almost 150 adoptions have been effected under this agreement and the Adoption Board has received written notification from the Ministry of Justice in Vietnam confirming...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (27 Sep 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: The number of voluntary notifications made by Childminders to the City and County Childcare Committees (CCCs) since the announcement of the proposed introduction of the Childcare Relief in December 2005, has been monitored by my Office on a regular basis. In April 2006 I provided the Deputy with the latest figures available at that time. I am pleased to be able to respond to the Deputy's...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (27 Sep 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Deputy will be aware that there have been significant improvements in the provision of supports for the development of quality child care over the last number of years. These improvements are mainly as a result of the EU co-funded Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme 2000-2006 (EOCP) and the equal opportunities and social inclusion perspective which have characterised its delivery....
- Written Answers — Child Protection: Child Protection (27 Sep 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Child Care Act 1991 focuses on the child and the promotion of the child's welfare. It also places a specific duty on the Health Service Executive to identify children who are not receiving adequate care and protection and to promote their welfare by providing child care and family support services. This Act underpins the basic tenet that the welfare of the child is of paramount...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (27 Sep 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: As the Deputy will be aware, I have responsibility for the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme 2000 â 2006 (EOCP) and the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006 â 2010 (NCIP), which are being implemented by the newly established Office of the Minister for Children. In June 2005, the Group in question was approved â¬202,000 in capital grant assistance under the EOCP. I...
- Written Answers — Family Support Services: Family Support Services (27 Sep 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: Lifestart is a home based programme offered to parents of children from birth to five years with the aim of providing families with developmental and educational information delivered in the home by trained Family Visitors. I understand that Lifestart Donegal is a partnership of three projects delivering the Lifestart Programme and complementary initiatives to parents in various areas...
- Written Answers — Child Protection: Child Protection (27 Sep 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: Two Special Rapporteurs for Child Protection were appointed by the Government in June 2006. The functions of the Rapporteurs are as follows: to keep under review and to audit legal developments for the protection of children; to assess what impact, if any, litigation in national and international courts will have on child protection; to prepare, annually, a report setting out the previous...
- Written Answers — Child Protection: Child Protection (27 Sep 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Deputy is referring to the Report of the Ombudsman for Children to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child which was submitted in April 2006. Ireland ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child without reservation in September 1992. As part of the process of evaluating a county's progress in implementing the Convention, the Committee considers periodic State...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (27 Sep 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: I propose to take Questions Nos. 733 and 755 together. The review of the Child Care (Pre-School Services) Regulations 1996 and (Amendment) Regulations 1997 has been completed. I expect to be in a position to sign the revised Regulations in the near future. I understand that work is in progress in the Health Service Executive to address training issues for pre-school inspection staff in...
- Written Answers — Recreation Policy: Recreation Policy (27 Sep 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: The allocation of resources to support the implementation of the national recreation policy for young people will be considered within the context of the budgetary process and the finalisation of the estimates provisions for Government Departments in 2007.
- Written Answers — Programme for Government: Programme for Government (27 Sep 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: The elements of the Children Act 2001 coming under the remit of the Minister for Health and Children are Parts 2, 3 and 11 and Section 77. The other elements of the Act come under the remit of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and the Minister for Education and Science. Part 2 establishes for the first time on a statutory basis the Family Welfare Conference. Part 3 amends...
- Written Answers — Programme for Government: Programme for Government (27 Sep 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: I wish to advise the Deputy that the Statutory powers and duties of the Minister for Health and Children set out in the schedule to Statutory Instrument No. S.I. 474 of 2003 have been delegated to me under that Instrument. On the 4th November 2003, Statutory Instrument No. 527 of 2003 was co-signed by myself as Minister for State at the Department of Health and Children and Mr Noel Dempsey,...
- Seanad: Hospital Services (27 Sep 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: I will be taking the Adjournment on behalf of the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney. I thank the Senator for raising this issue on the Adjournment of the House. It is not the first occasion he has raised the issue and I appreciate his concern about the hospital, a concern which I share. The Health Service Executive established a steering group and a north-east project group to...