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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (12 Mar 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: Voluntary Work Option (12 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: The European Voluntary Service gives young people, in the age group 17-30 years, the opportunity to express their personal commitment through full-time voluntary service, living and working in communities in a foreign country within or outside the EU. The European Voluntary Service aims to develop solidarity, mutual understanding and tolerance among young people, while contributing to...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Data (12 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: The Adoption Authority of Ireland has provided the following table of Declarations of Eligibility and Suitability granted over the past ten years. The Authority advises that it is not possible to say how many of these led to an adoption as some prospective adopters will have withdrawn from the process for a variety of reasons. I would point out that a Declaration remains valid for 3 years,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Costs (12 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: In the region of €260 million is provided annually by my Department to support a number of childcare programmes which assist parents in accessing quality and affordable childcare. More than 100,000 children benefit from this investment each year. These programmes are in addition to the support provided to all parents in the form of Child Benefit. The childcare programmes include...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Legislative Programme (11 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: Table Name of Act Bill Number Act Number Enacted on Were Amendments Proposed by the Minister? Adoption (Amendment) Act 2013 Bill Number 133 of 2013 Act Number 44 of 2013 20 December 2013 No Child and Family Agency Act 2013 Bill Number 81 of 2013 Act Number 40 of 2013 15 December 2013 Yes – figures to follow* Child Care (Amendment) Act 2013 Bill Number 10 of 2013 Act Number 5...

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...

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

James Reilly: Special care is intended as a short term secure care placement in a therapeutic environment with the intention of returning the child to a community or family based setting as soon as possible. Special care is used to address the risk of harm that may be caused to a child's life, health, safety, development or welfare by their behaviour. Children are admitted to Special Care following a...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (10 Mar 2015)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 351 to 353, inclusive, together. The School Completion Programme aims to retain young people in the formal education system to completion of senior cycle and to generally improve the school attendance, participation and retention of young people who are risk of educational disadvantage. The Programme is a targeted intervention aimed at school communities...

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

James Reilly: My Department implements a number of childcare funding programmes that assist parents in accessing affordable and quality childcare services. These include the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme, which provides for a free preschool year; the Community Childcare Subvention (CCS) programme to support low income and disadvantaged families, and three Training and Employment...

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: 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.

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...