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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Rights Referendum (18 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: The provision of €3 million in the Vote of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs for 2012 relating to the holding of a Constitutional Referendum on Children's Rights was utilised as follows: €1.9 million was allocated to the Referendum Commission for the performance of its statutory functions. The details of the use of that allocation were set out in its post referendum...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Proceedings (18 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Child and Family Agency to respond directly to the Deputy with the most up-to-date information.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (18 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: I have requested the information from the Child and Family Agency and I will revert to the Deputy when this information is to hand.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foreign Adoptions (18 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: The Adoption Authority of Ireland has provided the following figures from the Register of Intercountry Adoptions. Bulgaria 5 China 11 Colombia 1 El Salvador 1 England 2 India 23 Mexico 13 Philippines 1 Romania 1 South Africa 1 Thailand 14 USA 36 Vietnam 1

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foreign Adoptions (18 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: The Adoption Authority advises that 36 adoptions from the USA have been recorded in the Register of Intercountry Adoptions since the enactment of the Adoption Act 2010. As the USA is considered to be one entity under the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-Operation in respect of Intercountry Adoption, the Authority does not maintain statistics in respect of individual US states.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foreign Adoptions (18 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: The Adoption Act, 2010 was commenced on 1 November 2010. The commencement of the Act coincided with Ireland's ratification of the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption. The legislation, which incorporates the provisions of the Hague Convention, is designed to provide a framework to ensure that appropriate procedures are followed....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (18 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: The commitment in the Programme for Government to end the practice of detaining children in adult prison facilities will be met when the extension of the Oberstown campus results in the transfer of responsibility for 17 year old boys from the Irish Prison Service to the children detention schools. The Oberstown development project, which commenced on site in September 2013, will enable the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Regulation (18 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: The revised Child Care Regulations which are required under the new amendments to Part VII of the Child Care Act 1991 are currently being developed in association with the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel. The drafting of the new regulations has required a root and branch re-examination of the existing regulations including a restructuring of regulations and guidance content in line with...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff Rehiring (18 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: I can confirm to the Deputy that there are no retired civil service or public sector workers on contract work or on temporary employment contracts in my Department at present.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foreign Adoptions (18 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 340 and 344 together. 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. This was forwarded to the Russian...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (18 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: I have requested the information from the Child and Family Agency and I will revert to the Deputy when this information is to hand.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (18 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: The Government has undertaken to establish a statutory Commission of Investigation into matters relating to Mother and Baby Homes in accordance with the Motion passed by this House on 11 June. Considerable progress has been achieved since this date, including the publication of the Inter-Departmental Group’s Report, the announcement that Judge Yvonne Murphy will chair the Commission...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (18 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: The new education-focused inspections will examine the quality of educational provision in early childhood settings participating in the Free Pre-school Year programme. These inspections will have a developmental focus looking in particular at the quality of children’s learning experiences and achievements and how this is supported in settings by management and leadership, curricular...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (13 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: I thank the committee for its questions and its courtesy and I look forward to working with it for the remainder of the Administration. We are all engaged in the care of children and in ensuring they get the best possible outcome by being allowed to reach their full potential. For some groups of children that requires serious intervention on behalf of the State and for all children it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (13 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: I thank Deputy McLellan for her understanding of the terms of reference. She mentioned people in direct provision who are in close contact with children and yet unvetted. That is certainly an issue we will need to look into. I have met the Minister for Justice and Equality to discuss the issue. The Deputy also mentioned the involvement of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (13 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: Everybody in this room will know that the Tánaiste has a particular interest in this area as well for obvious reasons as does others like Deputy Anne Ferris. I reiterate what I have said before. I want to make the issue of people having access to information on their adoption and identity as easy as possible but within the law. I want to put as much help around that as possible in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (13 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: It has always been the case that experience abroad must be reflected in vetting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (13 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: This is for the protection of children.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (13 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: Incidents that happened many years ago can often be very relevant to safety today. We know that only too well from yesterday's Dáil debate. This is in everybody's interest. I know, from having discussed it in the past, that vetting is difficult. An event may have occurred since somebody was last vetted and if he or she is allowed to continue to use their current certificate then...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (13 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: It is not easy. I am very pleased to say that the average vetting time has fallen considerably, from something like 16 weeks down to about six weeks. The Senator mentioned homelessness. Focus Ireland has said that it is aware that between 25 and 30 young adults nationally are at risk of homelessness who are in hostel accommodation and have a care background. It is also aware that there...