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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education (26 Feb 2015)

James Reilly: The Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme provides a free pre-school year to all eligible children before commencing primary school. Approximately 67,000 children are availing of the provision in the current academic year. The free pre-school provision represents an annual investment of approximately €175 million. The standard capitation fee paid to participating...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Expenditure (26 Feb 2015)

James Reilly: The figures in relation to the Community Childcare Subvention (CCS) programme, requested by the Deputy, are as follows: Year No. of children enrolled Funding 2011/12 26,504 €51 million 2012/13 24,907 €44.5 million 2013/14 23,728 €43 million The subvention funding is provided to community childcare services to enable them to reduce the weekly fees charged to...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (26 Feb 2015)

James Reilly: The introduction of a second free pre-school year for children with special needs would mean the putting in place of an assessment process whereby a range of childcare specialists would evaluate the diverse needs of such children and confirm diagnosis and severity of disability. I am not in a position to estimate what the cost would be but it seems likely that very substantial investment...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ministerial Advisers Remuneration (26 Feb 2015)

James Reilly: No severance packages have been paid to any special advisor in my Department. The persons referred to in the details supplied by the Deputy have not been employed in this Department.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education (3 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: My Department supports the provision of early childhood care and education by providing annually in the region of €260 million to provide for three childcare support programmes that make childcare services more affordable and ensure that more than 100,000 children have access to quality childcare. This high level of support has been maintained despite the difficult budgetary situation...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education (3 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: Children qualify for the free pre-school provision when they are within the qualifying age range which is 3 years and 3 months to 4 years and 7 months in the September of the relevant year. This means, for example, that children born between 1st July and 31st August 2011 qualify in the school year commencing in September 2015. There is no provision under the programme to enrol children who...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Legal Costs (3 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: All contracts entered into by my Department must conform to the relevant laws and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform guidelines on public procurement. My Department did not engage or pay the solicitors' firms identified by the Deputy from 2011 to 2014. I have asked the agencies under the auspices of my Department to supply the requested information, insofar as it applies to those...

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (3 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: The amendments I am bringing to the Seanad today relate to technical drafting issues. In Part 4 of the Bill, there are references to the full Short Title of the proposed Act, namely, the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Act 2014. There is also a reference to the full Short Title of the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002. The full Short Titles are being amended to more...

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (3 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: I thank all Senators for their kind comments and, more importantly, for their support. I will make some comments on some of the issues raised. Senator Crown mentioned all the visits taking place over the St Patrick's Day period. It is a great opportunity for this country to advertise itself in a way that no other country has the opportunity to do. For my part, I will be going to Abu Dhabi...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Discipline (4 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: The Educational Welfare Service has specific responsibility for the Child and Family Agency’s statutory function to ensure that each child attends a recognised school or otherwise receives a certain minimum education. Section 24 of the Education (Welfare) Act 2000 provides: “Where the board of management of a recognised school or a person acting on its behalf is of the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Expenditure (4 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: Under the Child Care Act 1991, as amended, the Child and Family Agency has responsibility for payment of any costs incurred by a person who has been appointed by a court to act as a guardian ad litem in proceedings under the Act. The Agency has informed me that its financial system does not provide the ability to obtain, from invoices from guardian ad litemorganisations, the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Properties (4 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: The Appropriation Account for my Department includes no payments in respect of rent/leases. The lease for my Department's building is held by the Office of Public Works.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Provision (4 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 107 to 110, inclusive, together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Appointments to State Boards (4 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: There have been no senior civil servants retired from my Department since 2011 who have been appointed to a State board under the aegis of my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (5 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: Considerable capital funding was made available to community and commercial mainstream childcare providers for the development and refurbishment of childcare facilities under the National Childcare Investment Programme (NCIP) 2006-2010, and previously under the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme (EOCP). Because of the economic situation, a review of capital expenditure was undertaken in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Proposed Legislation (5 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: Young people leaving the care of the State at 18 years of age are entitled to an aftercare service. Aftercare is the term used to describe the planning and support put in place to meet the needs of such young people to assist them in making the transition to independent living. It is essential that all young people leaving care are provided with the type of transitional support that their...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Inter-Country Adoptions (5 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: Efforts are ongoing in my Department in relation to a bilateral agreement on intercountry adoption between Ireland and the Russian Federation. Following a meeting with a delegation of Russian officials in October 2013 my Department prepared revised draft wording on a number of specific points, which was forwarded to the Russian Authorities in February 2014. In transmitting these revisions...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education (5 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: The introduction of a second pre-school year under the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme would require considerable additional funding, broadly in line with the cost of the current free pre-school provision, which is €175 million. This additional funding is not currently available to my Department. In addition, all of the available evidence indicates that the quality...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (10 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: There is a commitment in the Programme for Government to end the practice of detainingchildren in adult prison facilities and significant progress has been made in this area. Responsibility for 16 year old boys was transferred from the adult prison system to the Oberstown campus in May 2012 and this commitment will be fully met when the extension of the Oberstown campus results in the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education (10 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: The Early Childhood Care and Education programme provides one free pre-school year to all eligible children before commencing primary school. This programme represents an annual investment of €175 million in pre-school services. The introduction of a second pre-school year would require considerable additional funding, broadly in line with the cost of the current provision. This...