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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Strategy Publication (11 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: The development of Ireland’s first Early Years Strategy, for children in the early years of their lives, is being progressed in my Department. The objective is to create an innovative and dynamic blueprint for the future development of Ireland’s early years sector and a coherent approach to seeking to improve the lives of children from birth to 6 years. The Early Years...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on Children's Rights (11 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: Ireland became a Party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1992. Article 12 of the Convention covers the right of a child, who is capable of forming his or her own views, to express those views freely in all matters affecting him or her. In the case of legislation coming within the remit of my Department the views or wishes of the child are provided for in the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education (11 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: My Department administers five childcare funding programmes: the universal free preschool year, known as the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE), and four targeted programmes, the Community Childcare Subvention (CCS) and three Training and Employment Childcare Programmes, Childcare Education and Training Programme (CETS); Community Employment Childcare (CEC) and Afterschool Childcare...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Obesity Strategy (11 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: The Department of Health has primary responsibility for policy in relation to obesity and is supported by my Department in the effort to address the issue of childhood obesity. My Department launched ‘Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures: the National Policy Framework for Children and Young People 2014 -2020’ in 2014. ‘Better Outcomes: Brighter Futures’ is the first...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Support Services (6 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: The functions provided by the Family Support Agency transferred to the Department of Children and Youth Affairs upon its establishment in June 2011. Details of the funding provided to the Agency by my Department are set out in the following table. Family Support Agency funding Year Amount 2011 €15.195m * 2012 €25.966m 2013 €23.599m *The balance of the Agency...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Law Cases (6 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: The issue raised by the Deputy is a matter for my colleague the Minister for Justice and Equality.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (6 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: A response to the correspondence mentioned in the Deputy question has issued. Under adoption legislation, when a child is registered on the Register of Intercountry Adoptions the child is deemed to be the fully legal child of the adoptive parent/couple, having the same legal status as any biological child of the couple born to them within their marriage. Accordingly, it is open to any...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (6 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 139 and 140 together. I presume the Deputy is enquiring about the use of agency staff to meet a short-term service need or where some flexibility in staffing a service is required. In that regard, I can confirm that my Department does not presently engage such services. The information requested in respect of the agencies under my aegis is not normally...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Home-School Liaison Scheme (5 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 120 to 122, inclusive, together. Since its establishment on 1 January 2014, the Child and Family Agency has operational responsibility for the School Completion Programme and Home-School-Community Liaison Scheme, both of which are elements of the School Support Programme under the Department of Education and Skills' DEIS Action Plan for Educational...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Costs (5 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: The introduction of a tax credit scheme in the Finance Bill is a matter for Government and the Minister for Finance in the first instance. I am aware of the relatively high cost of childcare in this country and of the difficulties that this presents, particularly where both parents are in employment outside of the home. To help address the issue, funding of €260 million is provided...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (5 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: Balgaddy Child and Family Centre has sought to be included within the Family Resource Centre Programme operated by the Child and Family Agency. The Programme is closed at present to new applications. I understand that discussions have been held between the Agency and the Centre, most recently last month. The Centre has been in receipt of philanthropic funding and this funding arrangement...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Appointments to State Boards (5 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: I can inform the Deputy that two State Bodies which are currently funded by the Exchequer through my Department's vote have governing Boards. These are the Adoption Authority of Ireland, the Child and Family Agency. Since 1st January 2012, the Board of Management for the Children Detention Schools at Oberstown, Co. Dublin, comes under the remit of my Department. I am responsible for...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: HSE Complaints Procedures (4 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: As the Deputy may appreciate, I will be limited in my response as it is not customary to comment on individual cases. I have been informed by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, that earlier this year correspondence was received from the person referred to by the Deputy. This correspondence referred to issues that had previously been the subject of a substantive reply from the HSE, which...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Attendance Data (4 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: The recognition of schools is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Education and Skills under the Education Act 1998. The Child and Family Agency, established in 2014 under the aegis of my Department, has statutory responsibility to ensure that each child attends a recognised school or otherwise receives a certain minimum education. The Child and Family Agency maintains a register...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education (4 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: The Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme is implemented by my Department and provides a free preschool year to all children before they commence primary school. An advance payment is made to participating child care providers at the end of August each year and is based on the number of children which were enrolled in that service for the free preschool provision in the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (4 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: Records in relation to St. Mary's Children's Home, Dublin Road, Tuam, County Galway are currently held by the Child and Family Agency. Inquiries in relation to these records can be made to the Child and Family Agency, Adoption Services, HR Building, Merlin Park, Galway or Tel: 091 775057.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Home Schooling (4 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: Section 14 (2) of the Education (Welfare) Act 2000 provides: ‘Where a parent chooses to educate, or to have educated, his or her child in a place other than a recognised school he or she shall, in accordance with this section, apply to the Child and Family Agency to have the child concerned registered in the register’. The Child and Family Agency has a statutory obligation to...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Qualifications (4 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: The Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme introduced the first-ever requirement for minimum qualifications for staff working in the child care sector. Prior to the introduction of the programme in January 2010 there was no requirement for staff working directly with children in preschool services to hold any education qualification. It is a requirement of the ECCE programme...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (4 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: Capital funding of €2.5 million is being provided in the current year under the Childcare Capital 2014 programme for the maintenance and upgrade of community/not-for-profit child care services. The objective of this funding is to ensure that previously-funded community facilities remain fit-for-purpose, maintain and improve quality, and to make community services more efficient and...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (4 Nov 2014)

James Reilly: The Centre at Darndale experienced cash flow difficulties in recent months and the matter was the subject of debate within the House previously. It is my understanding that these difficulties have been alleviated as a result of the development and implementation of a revised business plan for 2014 which included the putting in place of cost control and operational measures, identified in a...