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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (10 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 342. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when youth organisations in receipt of funding from her Department will be informed of their 2017 funding allocations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34178/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Employment Initiative (10 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 343. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the youth employability initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34179/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (10 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 344. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the timeframe for implementation of the legislative commitment in the programme for Government to increase the mandatory school leaving age to 17 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34180/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Schemes (10 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 345. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a breakdown of the funding in each of the years from 2011 to date in 2016 for schemes (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34181/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Youth Strategy (10 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 346. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the timeframe for the development of the LGBT youth strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34182/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 29. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the plans she has in place to deal with the potential loss of substantial funding to the youth work sector as a result of withdrawal of EU PEACE funding post Brexit. [33539/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Baineann an cheist seo leis an ról atá ag an Aontas Eorpach i maoiniú cláracha ar nós PEACE. The programme and the EU have taken an active role in recent years in promoting peace and reconciliation. Much of the funding went to youth projects, particularly in Border counties, North and South. What steps does the Minister intend to take to ensure that provision is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Minister for her reply, but the answer largely reads as if there has been no change in the situation since the referendum. Of course, that is not the case. When the President of the European Commission, Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, was asked whether PEACE funding would continue after Brexit, he stated that it would not. He stated that, until the treaties ceased to apply to a member...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am entitled to ask a supplementary question.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (8 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It was recently reported that Edel House, a shelter in Cork that deals with women and children, had to turn away 281 children last year. This reflects how serious the problem is in Cork. A number of families have told me that they are worried about registering as homeless, particularly those that are in contact with Tusla, be it for whatever reason. Good families, doing the best for their...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (8 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister will be aware that the Association of Childcare Professionals has indicated that it intends to hold a day of action and protest on 17 November. I commend it on that because I believe that workers and professionals in this sector have been taken for granted by previous Governments and by this Government. We are asking them to deal with an increase in capacity, and as a result a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (8 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 19. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether the required capacity currently exists to meet the need of the implementation of the single affordable child care payment; the plans she has in place to expand the capacity of the public child care sector over the coming years; the progress likely to be made on such capacity planning by the time the scheme is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (8 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Baineann an cheist seo le cumas na Roinne agus na hearnála dul i ngleic leis an scéim nua atá curtha ar bun ag an Roinn. The question asks what the Department is doing in terms of capacity planning for the new scheme and whether it believes current capacity will be sufficient. If not, will sufficient capacity be in place when the new scheme starts in September next year?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (8 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have significant doubts about how this will work in September next year. I have doubts about capacity and what this will mean for prices. The Minister and the Department have said that they do not expect there to be any issues but are keeping it under review. The Department states that it expects the scheme to improve labour market activation and participation but a degree of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Guardians Ad Litem (8 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 32. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on her Department's paper, Preparing a Policy Approach to the reform of Guardian Ad Litem Arrangements, with particular reference to the legal representation of guardians ad litem in court proceedings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33538/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (8 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 43. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the provisions her Department is putting in place to deal with unaccompanied refugee minors coming here; the preparations her Department is making for additional unaccompanied minors; and the services available to these children who are coming here with significant levels of trauma. [33536/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (8 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 48. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps her Department is taking to assist childminders registering with Tusla; the supports available to childminders who have registered; and if her Department is reviewing the current criteria for those registering as childminders. [33540/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (8 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 54. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether Tusla has both the capacity and the resources to ensure aftercare plans for all children who are leaving care; and her further views on whether the resources are available to deliver on all aftercare plans in time for the commencement of the Child Care (Amendment) Act 2015. [33537/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Psychological Assessments (8 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 518. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will arrange an assessment for a person (details supplied) and assign a social worker to support the family as soon as possible. [33587/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Nov 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 217. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to concerns raised that an area under current excavation (details supplied) does not include underground cesspits which may also contain remains; if the commission is aware of such concerns; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33111/16]