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- Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (3 Mar 2010)
Barry Andrews: Applicants for adoption must undergo a detailed statutory assessment process. This is undertaken by professional Social Workers and must be approved by the Adoption Board before a Declaration of Eligibility and Suitability to adopt can be issued by the Board. I acknowledge that persons applying for adoption have experienced unacceptably long delays as regards waiting times for assessment. I...
- Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (3 Mar 2010)
Barry Andrews: The Children and Youth Services Development Unit of my Office provided a grant of â¬111,586 to the Bru Youth Service under the Special Projects for Youth Scheme and current funding of â¬241,500 under the Young People's Facilities and Services Fund (Round 2 funding stream) in 2009. The budget for 2010 for the Children and Youth Services Development Unit is â¬64.89m. The process of...
- Written Answers — Preschool Services: Preschool Services (3 Mar 2010)
Barry Andrews: I have responsibility for implementation of the free Pre-School Year in Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) scheme which was introduced in January of this year. The scheme is open to children who are aged more than 3 years and 2 months and less than 4 years 7 months at 1 September each year. This means that children born between 2 February 2005 and 30 June 2006 qualified for a free...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (3 Mar 2010)
Barry Andrews: I wish to advise the Deputy that, due to public service industrial action involving members of IMPACT, the Department has not been in a position to obtain current information from the HSE as to when a reply will issue to Parliamentary Question No. 309 of 26 January 2010. The position at 26th February 2010 was that the HSE was still awaiting a reply from one Area but that an interim response...
- Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)
Barry Andrews: Deputy Shatter named them yesterday himself.
- Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)
Barry Andrews: Deputy Shatter should be ashamed of himself.
- Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)
Barry Andrews: The Deputy should be ashamed of himself.
- Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)
Barry Andrews: This did not concern Deputy Shatter yesterday.
- Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)
Barry Andrews: He released sensitive details. Moreover, he issued the name in the details of a parliamentary question he tabled.
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Barry Andrews: I welcome the opportunity to address the House this evening on this important subject. I apologise to the House that I do not have a written speech to share with Members. I hope they understand this is due to the short period of time I have had to prepare for this debate. The death of any child in care is a tragedy, particularly when interventions that would be carried out in normal...
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Barry Andrews: These are cases in which no further action is expected. The second of these was an overdose in 2000, for which, again, no review was conducted. The third was an overdose in 2005. The details of the latter two cases were sent to HIQA in July 2009 to allow the authority to inform the guidance it has prepared so that both the HSE and the Irish Youth Justice Service can properly carry out...
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Barry Andrews: There are four reports.
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Barry Andrews: To answer Deputy Shatter's question on the numbers, DF and TF were counted as one case; I consider them to be two cases. I am aware of two additional cases which were not in the original 20 cases mentioned by Mr. Garland this morning and which are due to be published. They were the 5th and 6th ongoing cases to which I referred today. One of these was a death in 2007 from an overdose on...
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Barry Andrews: I will finish answering these questions as some of the points are worth going through. To answer Deputy O'Dowd, I do not have figures for minors who have absconded from foster care and nor do I have figures for children of minor parents where the parents are in care. I will investigate that matter and undertake to come back to the Deputy without delay.
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Barry Andrews: Does Deputy O'Dowd want to know about cases both where someone is known to a social worker or in care?
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Barry Andrews: If the person was homeless she should have been in the care of the State if she was a minor.
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Barry Andrews: I will undertake to provide that-----
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Barry Andrews: If Deputy O'Dowd provides me with the facts of the case I will undertake-----
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Barry Andrews: I will try to get the information for the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Barry Andrews: The Minister for Transport did refer to ten cases of death by natural causes. I examined the details of those cases and one of them was a suicide from 2000. I am not comfortable with describing that as natural causes although it was furnished to me in that fashion. It dates back to 2000 so it would not be appropriate. There is a lack of therapeutic interventions. I did not set child...