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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services Provision (4 Jul 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 558. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which the child protection services have the necessary resources and staff available to them to meet the demand; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31537/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services Provision (4 Jul 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 559. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which she remains satisfied regarding the adequacy of available facilities to ensure the follow-up required in cases of children at risk or reported to be at risk in various settings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31538/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (4 Jul 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 560. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in State care in respect of residential and fosterage settings; if the supervisory and professional supports required remain readily available in all such cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31539/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse (4 Jul 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 561. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of reports of child abuse in situations of children in residential care directly in the custody of the State or otherwise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31540/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse Reports (4 Jul 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 562. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of reports received of alleged child abuse in respect of children in the home in each of the past three years; the extent to which adequate facilities have been put in place to address the issues arising; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31541/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (4 Jul 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 563. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the back-up facilities available on an ongoing basis for children and young adults on leaving institutional care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31542/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse (4 Jul 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 564. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which her Department can react quickly to allegations of child abuse in a setting in which the State has intervened or accepted responsibility for the care of such children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31543/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (4 Jul 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 565. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she supports voluntary bodies involved in the provision of care or support to children at risk; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31544/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (4 Jul 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 566. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will offer grant aid to youth organisations or others involved in the provision of facilities for young persons on an ongoing basis in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31545/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services Provision (4 Jul 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 567. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she and her Department can intervene to support children whose parents are undocumented and who may as a result be open to exploitation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31546/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services Provision (4 Jul 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 568. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she and her Department has access to the necessary information to address the needs of children of homeless families; if particular referrals or recommendations are received in her Department from the relevant local authorities in which there is a risk of children becoming homeless; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (4 Jul 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 569. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has satisfied herself regarding the adequacy of the child counselling services available to children that are at risk; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31548/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (4 Jul 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 570. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which her Department continues to support an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31549/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Jul 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 575. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the supports available to a person (details supplied); if the case can be examined with a view to ascertaining the most suitable support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30822/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Applications (4 Jul 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 586. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of eligibility for exceptional needs payment for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30985/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (4 Jul 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 587. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the recent exceptional needs payment issued on 18 April 2017 was paid to the person or an agent in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31005/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (4 Jul 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 590. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal for carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31032/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (4 Jul 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 598. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 255 of 21 June 2017, if a payment system can be put in place at an early date to address the issues of a person (details supplied) in the absence of a one-parent family allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31258/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Bank Branch Closures (29 Jun 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Our next participant is not here.

Topical Issue Debate: Bank Branch Closures (29 Jun 2017)

Bernard Durkan: The Topical Issue was deferred or withdrawn.