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- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) James Reilly: I am sorry to interrupt, but this is once-off funding allocated on the basis of a grant for a single year on foot of an application for funds. No person or organisation that received funding under the scheme can ever expect to receive it again the following year. It is strictly a capital fund and, therefore, not revenue. There is no entitlement to ongoing funding.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) James Reilly: I concur completely.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) James Reilly: I echo the Deputy's comments, but I would go further by saying we could not deliver as a Government in the way we do without the phenomenal volunteers in this sector. Again, I thank them for their work. On Deputy Robert Troy's point, I can confirm that the education and training boards, formerly the VECs, do disburse the funds. On the question of when they will know their budgets, they...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) James Reilly: The Deputy is correct that there are 13 programmes and that they are co-funded by the Department and Atlantic Philanthropies. Much has been learned in this regard. The total amount of committed funding available in the period 2013 to 2016, inclusive, will be €29.7 million. As I stated, there are 13 sites involved in the area-based childhood programme and ten are now operationalising...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) James Reilly: I am happy to say there will be no impact as a consequence of moving this money from this head back to Tusla front-line services. The objective of Ireland's early years strategy is to create an innovative and dynamic blueprint for the future development of Ireland's early years sector and a coherent approach to seeking to improve the lives of children from birth to six years. The strategy...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) James Reilly: It will be the other way around. The early years strategy will feed into the interdepartmental group.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) James Reilly: This is the children and young people's policy framework. Tusla is involved in it as well, in terms of helping the Department inform our policy decisions. There is no net loss in service arising out of this.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) James Reilly: Yes.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) James Reilly: I am glad the Deputy has raised this because this group is looking at more than just affordability and accessibility. It is looking at future investment in child care and the early years are but one section of child care years. We have zero to six, six to 12 and 12 to 18. People often forget about the 12 to 18 year olds and the latchkey kids, as they are called. Many parents are very...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) James Reilly: There is a very simple straightforward explanation. The additional funds are intended to support the authority in meeting its increasing legal costs, plain and simple. There is no increase in staffing levels or anything of that nature. Much good work has been done by the authority over the past year in terms of Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam with regard to foreign adoptions. I am...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) James Reilly: Deputy Troy is always on the hustings.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) James Reilly: I, took, take this opportunity to congratulate Dr. Muldoon on his appointment. I believe he will do an excellent job. I thank Ms Emily Logan for the great service she rendered during her time in that position. I also thank all of those people who applied for the post but were unsuccessful on this occasion. It is great to see such interest in the well-being of our young people. I would...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015) James Reilly: I, too, wish Ms McLaughlin well and thank her for all her help and work during the short time I have been Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. In regard to Deputy Ó Caoláin's remark that she was not over-stretched today, I do not believe she is over-stretched in that she is more than capable of dealing with all that comes her way. I also thank the committee for its time and...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Authority of Ireland (4 Feb 2015)
James Reilly: The Adoption Authority of Ireland was established in November 2010 and is the independent statutory body charged with implementing the Adoption Act, 2010. The Authority has responsibility for the direct operational implementation of legislation and Government policy relating to adoption. It has a quasi-judicial role and is independent in its decision-making functions. Part 12 of the Adoption...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (4 Feb 2015)
James Reilly: As the Deputy may appreciate, it would not be appropriate for me to comment on an individual case. I would ask if the Deputy could forward any correspondence he may have to the Chief Operations Officer, Mr. Fred McBride, in the Child and Family Agency. In the interim, I have referred the information provided by the Deputy to the Child and Family Agency for immediate attention.
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (4 Feb 2015)
James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 100 to 102, inclusive, together. The School Completion Programme 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 young people who are risk of educational disadvantage. The Programme is a targeted intervention aimed at school communities...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency (4 Feb 2015)
James Reilly: Section 44 of the Child and Family Agency Act, 2013, provides that the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs shall develop an annual Performance Statement for issue to the Child and Family Agency. The Performance Statement is designed to provide the Agency with specific policy guidance, direction, prioritisation and resource parameters to inform the preparation of its annual Business Plan....
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (4 Feb 2015)
James Reilly: The planned programme review of the School Completion Programme, indicated in the Comprehensive Review of Expenditure 2012 - 2014 is underway. The objectives of the review are to examine the programme's structures, clarify roles and responsibilities, to analyse the interventions and supports provided and identify best practice for young people at risk of early school leaving and make...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (5 Feb 2015)
James Reilly: As the Deputy will appreciate, it would not be appropriate for me to comment on an individual case. I have referred the details of this case to the Child and Family Agency for attention, having regard to its statutory responsibility in this area.
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (5 Feb 2015)
James Reilly: As the Deputy will be aware, the Terms of Reference for the Mother and Baby Home Investigation and certain related matters have been approved by Cabinet and both Houses of the Oireachtas last month. Details in respect of the Commission are available on my Department’s website including a number of explanatory documents. My Department is currently advancing arrangements with Judge...