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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 283. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will grant adopted persons unfettered access to their birth certificates and adoption records. [9058/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 284. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has considered removing the proposed undertaking in section 41 of the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016. [9059/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 285. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the compelling reasons ground for refusing the release of information in the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 only applies when adopted persons are seeking information. [9060/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 286. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the circumstances under which she considers the release of information to an adopted person might endanger the life of a person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9061/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 287. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that the national adoption contact preference register is put on a statutory footing in the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016. [9062/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 288. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that information sources holding records pertaining to illegal adoptions, particularly instances in which no adoption order exists, will be compelled under the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 to transfer their records to the Adoption Authority of Ireland. [9063/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 289. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to reach out to the more than 2,000 people who were sent from Ireland to America for adoption from the 1940s to the 1970s. [9064/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Authority of Ireland (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 290. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will reinstate the stakeholder adoption advisory groups established by her predecessor (details supplied). [9065/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 276. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the advertising that has already been arranged and the plans in place to further advertise the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes in print, radio and electronic media outlets, in view of the fact that the closing date for applications to meet the commission’s confidential committee is 1 March 2017. [9051/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 277. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the advertising that has already been arranged and the plans in place to further advertise the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes overseas in print, radio and electronic media outlets to ensure that the diaspora have an opportunity to share their testimony with the commission, in view of the fact that the closing date...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 278. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the advertising that has already been arranged and the plans in place to further advertise the fact that the closing date for applications to meet the confidential committee of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes is 1 March 2017. [9053/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 281. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there is a closing date for applications to meet the investigation committee of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes; and if so, the plans in place to advertise this deadline. [9056/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 279. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the 1 March 2017 closing date for applications to meet the confidential committee of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes is final; and if the commission will welcome contact for impacted persons living abroad, especially those living outside the UK, where the commission has not yet advertised its work. [9054/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 280. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the outcome if witnesses contact the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes after the closing date of 1 March 2017 for applications to meet the confidential committee. [9055/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 282. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will reach out to all those who have contacted her Department regarding adoption and mother and baby homes in recent years; and if she will inform them of the existence of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes. [9057/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Data (22 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 291. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the unit cost per hour if the affordable child care scheme was modelled on the basis of an average wage of €11.50 for child care assistants, with proportionate increases for management staff. [9073/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (21 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 31. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of the implementation of the Youth Guarantee. [7086/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Youth Strategy (21 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 643. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a list of the members of the taskforce for the LGBT youth strategy, their title and their organisation. [8100/17]

US Executive Order on Immigration: Statements (15 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: In the three minutes I have, it would be difficult to fit in all of the outrageous and grotesque behaviours of Donald Trump, not only during his campaign but already in office as President. His comments during the campaign and since have been racist, sectarian, sexist and homophobic. It appears to many that there are no boundaries on what he might say. Comments which only ten years ago...

Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Following on directly from that, the Taoiseach is now saying that he first became aware of it after the "Prime Time" programme. On the previous Tuesday, he advised the Minister that he believed that the terms of reference would be adequate to cover the allegations. Is that not correct? That is my understanding. There is no way that the Taoiseach could have accurately and comprehensively...