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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (13 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 196. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which adequate accommodation exists to the placement of children that may be at risk; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52674/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (13 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 197. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children deemed at risk in various forms of residential accommodation including fosterage or institutional care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52675/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (13 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 198. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which ongoing monitoring of children in various forms of care continue to be monitored with a view to ensuring the highest standards of protection, safety and accommodation apply; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52676/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (13 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 202. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which adequate places remain available for children at risk and in need of residential care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52680/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services Provision (13 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 199. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which her Department remains in a position to quickly respond to complaints of children at risk with particular reference to the time taken to intervene; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52677/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (13 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 200. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which adequate protection remains available to children exiting residential care facilities in the public or private sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52678/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (13 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 201. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children who have exited care facilities of various forms in the past three years; if adequate supports have been made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52679/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (13 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 203. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which support services and accommodation remains available for undocumented and refugee children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52681/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (13 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 204. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she and bodies under the aegis of her Department maintain regular and adequate contact with the various youth groups throughout the country with particular reference to identifying their needs and taking on board their anticipated requirements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52684/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Counselling Services Provision (13 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 205. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she envisages improved counselling services for children at risk and their families; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52685/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Support Grant (13 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 214. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the decision to refuse a carer's support grant in the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52561/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (13 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 217. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 15 November 2018, if the review referred to is now complete; if so, the result of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52664/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (13 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 218. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the correct amount of jobseeker's allowance payable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52667/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I hate to interrupt, but on almost a weekly basis we have before us a group of people who are in favour of pay restoration and who are very aggrieved that it has not come. They are central providers to the system. There are competing demands and everybody must be cognisant of that and the situation is not a simple one, but we must also be alert to the fact that we could tip over the edge...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: That is my point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I am loath to interrupt. That is true up to a point. On a regular basis the committee is faced with the private sector and the public sector, very often competing with each other. Sometimes they overlap and at other times they do not overlap and there are gaps in the system. As one can see from looking at the colour of my hair, I come from an earlier generation and I remember when there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I thank our witnesses for coming in and for giving us the benefit of their insight into the care system. A number of things come to mind. Over the years I have made numerous references to the way the care has to be distributed and the competition between community-based care, institutional care, private hospital nursing home care and public hospital nursing home care. There seems to be a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (12 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 49. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he expects to facilitate necessary upgrading of major transport routes such as the M50 and M4, which are perceived to be incapable of dealing with the volume of traffic; when the projects will be advanced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52114/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Administration (12 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 52. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he proposes to make further provisions under the sports capital programme to facilitate the ongoing needs of communities nationally in both urban and rural areas having particular regard to the population growth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52115/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (12 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 169. To ask the Minister for Health if home supports are in place for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52274/18]