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Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Shane Cassells: The Taoiseach said earlier that he needed time. He is out of time. The choice for the people of Ireland will come soon. The people of Ireland can make the choice to give their children a better future, where the basic principle of having a home is not a fairy tale like the spoofers to my right, but an attainable reality because one party has always ensured that there were houses for our...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Reports (3 Dec 2019)

Shane Cassells: 539. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of external consultant reports commissioned by her Department in each year from March 2011 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the cost of each report; the company involved; and the title and publication date by report in tabular form. [49898/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (20 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: 293. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount spent on purchasing mobile telephones for staff in her Department for work-related business in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, by grade; if her Department has a contract with a mobile telephone company (details supplied) to supply mobile telephones if needed; if so, the name of the company; the date on...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Data (20 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: 297. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of complaints of bullying and sexual harassment, respectively, received by her Department in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [48031/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff Dismissals (20 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: 298. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of employees of her Department who were dismissed in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date 2019; the reason for the dismissal of each employee; the number of employees suspended in the same period; and the reason for the suspension of each in tabular form. [48066/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (19 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: 571. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the additional allocation of €1.5milllion provided in budget 2020 for early years supports; and the areas to which the funding will be directed in tabular form. [47125/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (19 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: 572. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the budget for the early years services supports; and the types of supports and associated cost with same in tabular form. [47126/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (19 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: 573. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the quality supports provided to a crèche (details supplied); and if quality supports were provided, the impact the results of the Better Start and the preschool inspectorate reports provided in terms of assessment. [47127/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Reports (12 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: 496. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number, date of publication and details of post-enactment reports published by her Department since March 2011, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46086/19]

Illegal Drugs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...of Meath, Michael Smith, delivering a homily in which he said that, as a society, we should not be dismissive of the lives of the people who are murdering each other because they are all God's children. I like and respect the former bishop, but I profoundly disagree with his assessment on that occasion. If these maggots want to murder each other, I do not really care. If it pleases God,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Legislative Measures (10 Oct 2019)

Shane Cassells: 247. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number, date of publication and details of post enactment reports published by her Department since March 2011, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41559/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Legislative Measures (10 Oct 2019)

Shane Cassells: 248. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of acts passed since March 2011 that her Department is responsible for; the date each act was signed into law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41575/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Communications (11 Jul 2019)

Shane Cassells: 863. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the oversight of her Department of directives, circulars, advice or requirements issued since 2016; if surveys have been carried out of compliance with these communications to date; the surveys carried out; the results of the surveys; the compliance rate; the actions taken by her Department following these results; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Data (25 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: 323. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided for children with an intellectual disability in County Meath in each of the years 2008 to 2018, in tabular form. [26109/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Data (25 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: 328. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided for children with an intellectual disability in County Westmeath in each of the years 2008 to 2018, in tabular form. [26114/19]

Committee on Public Petitions: Mandatory Teacher Training on Spectrum Disorders: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: I welcome our guests. I am delighted to participate in this discussion with the stakeholders. Parents approach Deputies and Senators on a weekly basis to look for supports for their children. It is commonplace and is becoming more commonplace. I welcome this discussion. I have two questions. What is Mr. Mulkerrins's assessment of what we have heard from Mr. Harris? Where can common...

Committee on Public Petitions: Mandatory Teacher Training on Spectrum Disorders: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: In the context of what Mr. Harris said in terms of children being illegally placed on reduced hours and sent home, in the past two months I was made aware of two cases arising in two separate schools located close to each other in a rural area of County Meath. Where schools send children home on the basis that they cannot cope and where their parents are told to collect them, what is the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...opening statement, the Department has a huge scope, with many areas that could be examined. I will keep my focus tight this morning. Primarily, I wish to focus on the fact that the Department of Children and Youth Affairs advances a huge amount of money to an organisation called Pobal to administer its early years childcare programme; some €500 million in fact. Around a decade...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...of the newspapers recently. For example, a headline in the Irish Independenta couple of weeks ago referred to a projected €50 million black hole in the Government's new childcare scheme. As the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Katherine Zappone, stated, "To cut to the chase an additional €50 million would be needed to deliver the first full year of our new...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...the success of the free preschool programme for three to five year olds but Teresa Heaney, the chief executive of Early Childhood Ireland, stated, "The second preschool year cannibalised places for younger children". The Department has acknowledged the pressures and the capacity problems but mums and dads cannot find places for children, which is having an impact on mums and dads...