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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Strategy Implementation (16 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: A key priority of the Government is to ensure that quality early years services are available to pre-school children. My Department is progressing the Early Years Quality Agenda which represents a programme of measures to support, monitor and regulate the improvement of quality standards in pre-school services in Ireland. A key element of the Agenda is to strengthen the national early years...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Strategy Implementation (16 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: Pre-school services are subject to the Child Care (Pre-School Services) (No.2) Regulations 2006, as provided for under Part VII of the Child Care Act, 1991. The Deputy may be aware that my Department is progressing the Early Years Quality Agenda which introduces a number of key of reforms that provide for the further development of the childcare sector. To underpin these reforms, it...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ministerial Meetings (16 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: I understand from the Deputy's question that the person concerned may wish to engage in relation to the Children First: National Guidance for the Protection and Welfare of Children (2011). The Children First Bill, 2014, which will put elements of the Children First: National Guidance for the Protection and Welfare of Children (2011) on a statutory footing was published in April last year and...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (16 Jul 2015)

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 Advertising (16 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: Expenditure incurred by my Department on advertising in the years 2013 and 2014 is set out in the following table: Year Advertising Costs 2013 €6,363 2014 €12,648 The State Agencies under the remit of my Department include Tusla, the Adoption Authority of Ireland and the Office of the Ombudsman for Children. Expenditure by them on advertising is a day-to-day operational...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: Details regarding the expenditure incurred by my Department on the printing of reports in the years 2013 and 2014 are set out in the following table: Year Printing Report Costs Department`s Annual Report 2013 €51,545 Nil 2014 €32,395 Nil It might be noted that no printing costs are associated with the production of the Annual Report for the Department of Children and Youth...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: The Department of Health provides a shared payroll service to this Department and the majority of staff receive their payslips on-line. In 2013 and 2014 payslips were posted to 4 weekly paid staff and 2 fortnightly paid staff on a regular basis, as they had no access to the on-line payslip available on the Department's internal computer network. The estimated cost is approximately...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ministerial Travel (16 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: I can advise the Deputy that Private Office staff encompasses my Private Secretary, Special Advisers, Personal Assistant, Personal Secretary and Civilian Drivers. Expenditure on travel and hotel accommodation is in respect of official business, and is broken down as follows: Expenditure on Flights – For 12 Month Period Ending 30 June 2015 Month Flights Persons Travelling Cost...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Appointments to State Boards (16 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: I am responsible for appointment of members to the boards of the Adoption Authority of Ireland, the Child and Family Agency (Tusla), Gaisce and the Board of Management for the Children Detention Schools in Oberstown, Co Dublin. I can confirm that no politically-appointed State employee outside of my Department has been involved in the decision-making concerning board appointments and that...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Budgets (16 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: The gross Vote allocation to my Department for 2015 is €1,027m. This is represented by a current allocation of €992m and a capital allocation of €35m. Gross expenditure for the period to the end of June 2015, amounts to €524m which is €25m below the profile of €549m. The underspend at this time includes €15m on current and €10m on...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: I can confirm that neither my Department nor its agencies are currently conducting the type of assessment outlined by the Deputy. However, in the past some processes have been migrated to electronic forms of communication, with resultant savings. In recognition of the potential benefits of on-line application systems, my Department developed an on-line management platform - the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (16 Jul 2015)

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. In 2015, funding of €49.9 m was provided to my Department for these schemes. There was no reduction in the funding for the youth services in 2015 which was a key priority for the national...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Expenditure (16 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: Funding of more than a quarter of a billion euro is invested annually by my Department in early years services with the greater proportion of this funding going to support the childcare support programmes – the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme, the Community Childcare Subvention (CCS) programme, and the Training and Employment Childcare (TEC) programmes. This...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Reports (16 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: I can inform the Deputy that my Department is currently in the process of preparing its 2014 Annual Report. I expect that, following the compilation of all the relevant material, the Report will be published in the coming weeks.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (16 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 432 to 436, inclusive, together. As outlined in my reply to the Deputy on 18 December last, the Health Information and Quality Authority carried out an inspection of the Co. Roscommon child welfare and protection services of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. The report in respect of monitoring against national standards was published in July 2014. This...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Strategy Implementation (16 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: Funding totalling €7 million is being made available in 2015 under the Early Years Capital Programme 2015, with €5 million of this funding available for grants specifically for community/not for profit services. This funding will provide grant aid, in the region of €500,000, for significant upgrades of community/not-for-profit services, such as major refurbishment or...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Strategy Implementation (16 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: Funding totalling €7 million is being made available in 2015 under the Early Years Capital Programme 2015, with €5 million of this funding available for grants specifically for community/not for profit services. This funding will provide grant aid, in the region of €500,000, for significant upgrades of community/not-for-profit services, such as major refurbishment or...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Regulation (16 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: As I outlined in my previous reply, I am very anxious that all people working directly with children in the early years sector have an appropriate Paediatric First Aid qualification. However, there is no accredited award in Paediatric First Aid at any level on the National Framework of Qualifications. There is an accredited award in Occupational First Aid and it is a stipulation that the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (16 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: Tusla, the Child and Family Agency has been tasked with improving outcomes and well being for children and young people. The Agency must ensure that it makes the most efficient use of its resources in a way that is efficient, equitable, proportionate and sustainable. Tusla prioritises the well being and protection of children in budgetary decisions. In that context, Tusla’s budget...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Expenditure (16 Jul 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 litemin proceedings under the Act. The Agency has informed me that its financial system does not provide details of payments to guardians ad litemon a local authority basis. The figure for payments...