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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Poverty (19 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: Responsibility for addressing disadvantage is a matter for all Departments and Ministers and indeed for wider society. The provision of intervention and supports to target the particular needs of children will be dependent on the type of disadvantage, be it social, financial, educational, health etc. Responsibility for the identification and provision of those interventions will fall to my...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Provision (19 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: My Department administers a range of funding schemes and programmes to support the provision of youth services to young people throughout the country including those from disadvantaged communities. The funding schemes support national and local youth work provision to some 380,000 young people and involve, approximately 1,400 youth work staff in 477 projects and 40,000 volunteers working in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Juvenile Offenders (19 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: I see the role of my Department as working in an integrated way to develop strong linkages between early prevention and intervention, developing closer working relationships between the care system and the justice system with the main focus of keeping children out of the criminal justice system as much as possible. For the relatively small number of young people whose behaviour has...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services (19 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 107 and 110 together. Children who require care placements come within the statutory remit of the Child and Family Agency. The Agency operates a number of services including family support, foster care and residential care services. These services are primarily demand led so there is no fixed capacity in terms of the places available to care for children....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (19 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: My Department administers a range of funding schemes and programmes to support the provision of youth services to young people throughout the country including those from disadvantaged communities. The funding schemes support national and local youth work provision to some 380,000 young people and involve approximately 1,400 youth work staff in 477 projects and 40,000 volunteers working in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Functions (19 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: "Better Outcomes Brighter Futures", the national policy framework for children and young people 2014-2020 represents a whole of government approach to improve the lives of children and young people. The framework gives appropriate priority to the importance of physical and mental wellbeing with a single national outcome focussed on "Active and Healthy". The key Departmental Sponsor for this...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (19 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: I assume the Deputy is referring to facilities within the children detention school system operating on the Oberstown campus at Lusk, Co. Dublin. As prescribed under Section 158 of the Children Act 2001, as amended, the principal object of the children detention schools is to provide appropriate education, training and other programmes and facilities for children referred to them by the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ministerial Transport (19 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: My Department was established in 2011. The expenditure relating to Ministerial transport, encompassing overseas and domestic travel transport costs is set out below. Year Ministerial Transport Costs 2011 €19,599 2012 €14,600 2013 €20,832

Seanad: Adoption (Identity and Information) Bill 2014: Second Stage (19 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: I thank the Seanad for the opportunity to debate this important matter. I thank Senators Power, van Turnhout and Healy Eames for the time and effort they put into developing this Private Members’ Bill, as well as to Dr. Fergus Ryan, the legal expert who provided assistance in this process. It is often the case legal instruments lag behind current thinking in a particular domain. This...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: As the Deputy will be aware, I am consulting with a number of key stakeholders, including the Bethany Survivor's Campaign and Survivors of Protestant Children's Institutions whom I have met in recent days, in order to update the parties on the emerging issues and to seek their further views. Requests to include a range of institutions, and concerns related to particular practices are being...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: HSE Staff Responsibilities (20 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: I am assuming the child care case conference referred to by the Deputy are those which come under the aegis of the Child and Family Agency. It should be noted that case conferences of this type are case specific. Consequently, the composition of the attendees would not be set and can include staff from the Agency, doctors, public health nurses, psychologists, other health professionals,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Provision (20 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: My Department administers a range of funding schemes and programmes to support the provision of youth services to young people throughout the country including those from disadvantaged communities. The funding schemes support national and local youth work provision to some 380,000 young people and involve approximately 1,400 youth work staff in 477 projects and 40,000 volunteers working in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff Data (20 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: The Department of Children & Youth Affairs does not have a specific data protection office. This function falls under the Support Services Unit within my Department with the head of this area also acting as the data protection officer for the Department. As part of the ongoing work in this area my Department has developed a records management protocol and database system to manage...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (25 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 297 and 298 together. Special care involves the detention of a child for his or her own welfare and protection in a special care unit (SCU) on order of the High Court. SCU’s differ from ordinary residential care in that the Units offer higher staff ratios, on-site education as well as specialised input such as psychology and child psychiatric...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ministerial Meetings (25 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: I can inform the Deputy that I have no plans at this time to meet with the Canal Community Policing Forum.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Legislative Measures (25 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: My officials have met with a wide variety of stakeholders in relation to the development of the Children First Bill 2014. I understand that the Samaritans were among a group of providers of telephone counselling and help lines services who were briefed by my officials. I assume that the Deputy is referring to the submission that the Samaritans made to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (25 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 301, 304 and 307 together. The Government has undertaken to establish a statutory Commission of Investigation into matters relating to Mother and Baby Homes in accordance with the Motion passed by the Dáil on the 11thJune. Considerable progress has been achieved since this date, including the publication of the Inter-Departmental Group’s Report,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Research (25 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: I have requested the information from the Child and Family Agency and I will revert to the Deputy when this information is to hand.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services Funding (25 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: Responsibility for the funding of the Domestic, Sexual and Gender based Violence services transferred from the HSE to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, upon its establishment on 1 January, 2014. In 2014, the Agency is providing over €17 million in funding to support the provision of Domestic, Sexual and Gender based Violence Services. This includes the funding of some 60 services...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Funding (25 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: My Department does not provide direct funding in respect of Childline. However, I have asked the Child and Family Agency, as the body with statutory responsibility for promoting the welfare and protection of children, to look into the matter and I will revert to the Deputy when I have received their advice.