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Child Protection Audit (22 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Given the number of promises made by the Minister, she is not in a position to criticise others.

Child Protection Audit (22 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: It will be the third or fourth postponement.

Services for People with Disabilities (22 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Taking up from the points Deputy Ó Caoláin made, the importance of providing these services to children at a fairly young age cannot be over-emphasised. I would ask the Minister to look also at the crossover between children going from early years to primary school, in particular, in terms of ensuring those with speech and language difficulties get the services they require. If their...

Services for People with Disabilities (22 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: If the special class cannot be set up to allow those children come up to speed with their speech and language over a period of a year or two, they will instead have to get resource hours at a national school. If one were to add up these costs, they would be similar but with a much poorer outcome in the latter case for those children.

Services for People with Disabilities (22 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: I ask the Minister to bring her good offices to bear, working with the Department of Health and the Department of Education and Skills, to ensure the case is addressed. Perhaps the Minister could also look at conducting an assessment of the position across the rest of the country to ensure children coming from preschool get into special classes which cater for specific speech and language needs.

Health Service Staff (22 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: The position of social worker is crucial to the child protection system. That is why, as a result of the Ryan report, 270 additional social workers were to be recruited, according to the recommendations of the report, in addition to the back-filling of existing posts in the system. The Minister stated that 31 retired in February alone. Are we to take it that the other 14 who she mentioned...

Health Service Staff (22 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: The Minister's figures referred to ten.

Health Service Staff (22 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: I asked whether they were in their posts and they were not. Only ten were in their posts whereas 31 have retired.

Health Service Staff (22 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: What about the 31 who retired in recent weeks?

Child Care Services (22 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: There are 73,000 families with preschool children relying on child care providers to enable them to work. However, the regulation and administration of the current regulations is patchy in many instances. It is from talking to people working within the system that one hears of the limited ability of the HSE to inspect childminders who should notify to the HSE but do not. This is an issue...

Child Care Services (22 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Does the Minister intend to introduce additional regulations to enhance the ability of the HSE to check an inspect childminding operations which have not been notified?

Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (22 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 179: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current number of staff at his Departments DVO office in Raphoe, County Donegal; the number staff that have left the office since 1 January 2005; and the number of the staff who have left have been replaced. [15949/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (22 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the range of services and work areas currently carried out at his Department's DVO Office in Raphoe, County Donegal; and the number of these services that are additional to the services and work areas carried out by the office in 2005. [15950/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (22 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to reduce the range of work areas currently carried out at his Departments DVO office in Raphoe, County Donegal. [15951/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (22 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 182: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will give a commitment that current staffing levels will be maintained at his Department's DVO office in Raphoe, County Donegal. [15952/12]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (22 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on when the outreach rheumatology clinic will be reinstated at Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15876/12]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health if he will direct the Health Service Executive to appoint a locum rheumatologist to Manorhamiliton, County Leitrim, to cover the second rheumatologist post until the person who is currently on maternity leave returns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15879/12]

Children's Rights Referendum (22 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will reaffirm her announcement made on the 16 February that a referendum on Children's Rights will be held during 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15957/12]

Children's Rights Referendum (22 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: The main purpose of my question is to seek clarity on the plans and timeline for the children's referendum. There has been considerable confusion in the last couple of weeks about whether the commitment given in mid-February that the referendum would take place in 2012 still remains in place. Did the Minister bring this to the Cabinet to seek confirmation and has the Cabinet agreed that the...

Children's Rights Referendum (22 Mar 2012)

Charlie McConalogue: The Minister points out a lot of work had been done and that Fianna Fáil committed to doing this. She should acknowledge that the all-party Oireachtas committee published a final report and suggested a draft wording for a referendum in 2010. When she was in opposition, she pushed hard to have a date set and has given commitments up until now. It is important that we get this right, which...