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- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (22 May 2008)
Barry Andrews: The commitment to create 50,000 new child care places by 2010 is being delivered under the National Childcare Investment Programme (NCIP), announced in Budget 2006. This is a successor programme to the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme (EOCP) and is designed to build on the achievements of the EOCP and provide a proactive response to the development of quality child care supports and...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (22 May 2008)
Barry Andrews: The commitment in the Programme for Government to which the Deputy refers is primarily a matter for the Department of Education and Science. That Department provides some pre-school provision for children with special educational needs through the visiting teacher service and, more recently, through the expansion of the home tuition scheme to provide funding for home programmes for pre-school...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (22 May 2008)
Barry Andrews: As the Deputy will be aware I have responsibility for the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006-2010 (NCIP). The NCIP is the successor programme to the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme (EOCP) which concluded at the end of 2007. The NCIP has been allocated â¬575 million over 5 years, and is designed to deliver 50,000 additional child care places with approximately 5,000 for...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (22 May 2008)
Barry Andrews: The commitment to which the Deputy refers, concerning the provision of such services in schools, is a matter for the Department of Education and Science. However, under the National Childcare Investment Programme, for which I have responsibility, capital grant funding is provided to develop child care services including services which cater for school age children, that is services which...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (22 May 2008)
Barry Andrews: The National Economic Social Council, in its report, the 'Developmental Welfare State', introduced the lifecycle approach to social policy discourse in Ireland. This is a holistic approach that places the individual at the centre of policy development and service delivery, and which was adopted in the national partnership agreement Towards 2016. This new approach was adopted in the context of...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (22 May 2008)
Barry Andrews: As the Deputy will be aware, I have responsibility for the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006 â 2010 (NCIP) under which the Community Childcare Subvention Scheme (CCSS) is being implemented. The main supports the Government makes available to parents to assist them with their child care costs are Child Benefit and the Early Childcare Supplement. The latter payment is the...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (22 May 2008)
Barry Andrews: The Order of Malta Cadets is the national youth work division of the Order of Malta Ambulance Corps (Ireland) and receives funding from my Department through the Youth Service Grant Scheme (YSGS). Funding under this scheme is made available on an annual grant-in-aid basis to national and major regional voluntary youth work organisations. In 2007, 31 organisations received funding under this...
- Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (21 May 2008)
Barry Andrews: Section 10(c) of the Adoption Act, 1952, as amended by Section 2 of the 1964 Act provides that, in order to be eligible for adoption, a child must be "illegitimate or an orphan" or be a child who has been legitimated, but whose birth has not been re-registered. The Adoption Act, 1988, does permit the adoption of any child (including children of marriage) but only in exceptional and very...
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (21 May 2008)
Barry Andrews: The Health Service Executive has responsibility for administering the Repayment Scheme and the information sought by the Deputy relates to matters within the area of responsibility of the Executive. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Child Abuse: Child Abuse (21 May 2008)
Barry Andrews: I propose to take Questions Nos. 150 to 152, inclusive, together. The Deputy's questions relate to the management and delivery of health and social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have...
- Seanad: HSE Child Welfare and Protection Services: Statements (21 May 2008)
Barry Andrews: I have a brief period to respond to a great number of issues, and I will try to tackle them as quickly as I can. People have been asking about waiting lists and the numbers at risk. This is partly a legacy issue that goes back to the existence of the health boards. Health boards defined assessed risk in different ways. We have instructed the HSE to develop a common language throughout the...
- Seanad: HSE Child Welfare and Protection Services: Statements (21 May 2008)
Barry Andrews: We do not want to create the impression that there is a fear of retribution or consequences when a person makes a comment and talks about something validly. Even in a whistle-blower regime there will be an element of anonymity. It is a legitimate media tool to use anonymity to broadcast information. I do not believe guidelines are being distributed by the HSE but I will check that.
- Seanad: HSE Child Welfare and Protection Services: Statements (21 May 2008)
Barry Andrews: I will respond in due course.
- Seanad: HSE Child Welfare and Protection Services: Statements (21 May 2008)
Barry Andrews: Go raibh maith agat. I thank the Cathaoirleach for his kind remarks. I welcome the opportunity this afternoon to discuss the important issue of child welfare and protection services, a subject of concern not alone to the Oireachtas but to society generally. Modern Ireland has seen a considerable rise in the profile of child welfare and protection issues in recent years. At the same time,...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (20 May 2008)
Barry Andrews: The dominant focus in child care services since the early 1990s has been on the protection and care of children who are at risk. During this time work was undertaken on the development of our foster care and residential care services, including the development of special care units for children who require intensive interventions. More recently, the policy focus has shifted to a more...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (20 May 2008)
Barry Andrews: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (20 May 2008)
Barry Andrews: As the Deputy will be aware, I have responsibility for the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006-2010 (NCIP) which replaced the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme 2000-2006 (EOCP), which was also administered by my Office. I understand that the Group in question received capital funding totalling â¬1.16 million under the EOCP and, as a result, has recently entered their new...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (20 May 2008)
Barry Andrews: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (20 May 2008)
Barry Andrews: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (20 May 2008)
Barry Andrews: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.