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Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (27 Jan 2009)

Barry Andrews: Under the Community Childcare Subvention Scheme (CCSS) which is implemented under the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006 -2010, payments are made by Pobal to community based childcare groups, generally on a quarterly basis. The final payments in 2008 were made during October — December, and the first payments for 2009 are being made this month (at the equivalent of the quarterly...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (27 Jan 2009)

Barry Andrews: All applicants for funding under the National Childcare Investment Programme are obliged to enter into a contract with Pobal in relation to the provision of the childcare service. The contracts provide that facilities must remain in operation for a certain number of years (depending on the amount of the grant) following receipt of the final instalment of the grant. If a grant beneficiary is...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (27 Jan 2009)

Barry Andrews: The Health Service Executive (HSE) National Service Plan for 2009, provides in excess of €1.5 billion for the provision of specialist disability services in 2009. The National Service Plan makes provision for 3.2 million hours of personal assistance services for people with a disability in 2009. This represents the same level of service from 2008 and an increase of 200,000 hours since...

Child Protection: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jan 2009)

Barry Andrews: My intention is to use the knowledge management approach to protect children from failures caused by agencies working in isolation from one another without effective communication and co-ordination; inconsistent quality of front line procedures; and inconsistent management oversight. I am confident this knowledge management strategy when implemented as a process, will be a key support to...

Health Services. (27 Jan 2009)

Barry Andrews: I will be taking this matter on behalf of my colleague, Deputy Mary Harney, Minister for Health and Children. I thank Deputy Scanlon for raising this issue. I am glad of the opportunity to address the House on this matter and to counter, yet again, the idea that the Health Service Executive, or the Government, is planning to restore the former health boards. The Minister for Health and...

Schools Building Projects. (27 Jan 2009)

Barry Andrews: I am responding to the Deputy on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe. I wish to thank the Deputy for giving me the opportunity of outlining to the House the position of the Department of Education and Science regarding the provision of improved facilities for Clifden community school, County Galway. All applications for capital funding are...

Schools Building Projects. (27 Jan 2009)

Barry Andrews: I will undertake to clarify that.

Child Protection: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jan 2009)

Barry Andrews: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "in expressing its deepest concern at the circumstances surrounding the case of incest, severe child abuse and neglect involving six children heard before Roscommon Circuit Court last week: welcomes the HSE's setting up of an independent inquiry into these appalling events to: examine the entire...

Child Protection: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jan 2009)

Barry Andrews: Deputy Shatter has offered his views on several occasions. If he listens, I will come to them.

Child Protection: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jan 2009)

Barry Andrews: If I may continue, I note that as Deputy Shatter had no objection to anything I said thus far, I therefore assume he agreed with everything I have said heretofore.

Child Protection: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jan 2009)

Barry Andrews: Perhaps he will listen to the rest of my contribution. Other Members are entitled, as are those who may be listening, to hear my views, as well as those of Deputy Shatter, and they may wish to listen to the remainder of what I have to say. Against this background, together with demands for child welfare and protection services, there was an urgent need to take action. The development of a...

Child Protection: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jan 2009)

Barry Andrews: Through the development and implementation of the knowledge management strategy, my objectives are to ensure that the best possible information and knowledge is readily available and can be shared and used to fulfil policy, management and operational needs,thereby enabling the optimal delivery of children's services; to transform the way child welfare and protection stakeholders work, with a...

Child Protection: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jan 2009)

Barry Andrews: This has resulted in a road map of prioritised practical actions to empower all of these stakeholders. The first priority is the development of a single national child care information system, which is needed urgently to support case management. Standardised business processes are being defined nationwide at present which can be integrated into the national child care information system and...

Child Protection: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jan 2009)

Barry Andrews: ——which in turn will help to address failures in interagency and interprofessional communication and in the co-ordination of interventions.

Child Protection: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jan 2009)

Barry Andrews: My intention is to use the knowledge management approach to protect children from failures.

Child Protection: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jan 2009)

Barry Andrews: Deputy Shatter is easily provoked.

Written Answers — Detention Centres: Detention Centres (18 Dec 2008)

Barry Andrews: In March 2008, the Government approved the development of new national children detention facilities on the Oberstown campus near Lusk, Co. Dublin. Planning for the development is underway and a design team from the Office of Public Works has been assembled to advise on architectural, construction and engineering matters to deliver high quality designs and to manage the construction of...

Written Answers — Firearms Offences: Firearms Offences (18 Dec 2008)

Barry Andrews: The compilation of crime statistics is now the responsibility of the Central Statistics Office (CSO). This decision was taken following the submission of a report and recommendations by an expert group on crime statistics. The Garda Síochána Act 2005 makes provision for this and the CSO has established a dedicated unit for the purpose. I have requested the CSO to provide the...

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (18 Dec 2008)

Barry Andrews: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (18 Dec 2008)

Barry Andrews: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.