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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 652. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding provided to the family resource centre network in 2017; and the amount budgeted for 2018. [54066/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 653. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding provided to the family resource centres in 2017; and the total amount budgeted for 2018. [54067/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 654. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her expansion plans for the family resource centre network; and the counties in which she plans to establish new family resource centres. [54068/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Social Workers Recruitment (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 656. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of hiring an additional social care worker. [54070/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 657. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of the 300 additional Tusla staff who are being recruited to handle mandatory reporting, by job title and pay grade. [54071/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Public Relations Contracts Data (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 658. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the use of external public relations firms employed per annum by her Department since coming into office, in tabular form; the external public relations firm used; the internal departmental policy with regard to employing external groups; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54072/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 659. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the photography costs per annum for her Department since coming to office, inclusive of costs incurred from use of the ministerial allowance, in tabular form; the occasions for which photographers were booked; the photographers used; the costs associated with each occasion that a photographer was used; if there is a policy regarding the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 660. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the average time that children in each county are waiting to be allocated a social worker in cases, including high-priority cases of child protection and children in care. [54074/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Guardians Ad Litem (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 662. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount her Department has spent on guardian ad litem services, by provider. [54076/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 663. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of increasing the number of weeks provided under ECCE by 1 to 8 weeks, respectively. [54077/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: While I am very much in favour of a referendum, I am not in favour of repeal simpliciter. I am in the same position as Deputy Browne. I support what he has said for all the same reasons.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: With the height of respect to Senator Mullen, he has seen the way I have voted all afternoon. I have been openminded for the past 13 weeks. However, one of the main factors that came before us related to the lack of sex education in school. He is dead right about perinatal care-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: This is all through the Chair. On sex education, contraception and reproductive health, we heard it over and over again. There was an underlying factor in all of their presentations, that there was a lack of education and a lack of understanding and a lack of communication from the Departments of Health, Education and Skill and others. It is amazing that Senator Mullen's colleague, Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 159. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a second carer in Merlin Park in order to be able to transfer them from care in County Wicklow to County Galway. [53317/17]

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for his contribution. I take on board that he said to the effect that the long-established practice is for the Bill to be welcomed and accepted without amendment. That is not my style but I will not go against it. We will be supporting the Bill but it would be remiss of me not to speak on it. In a similar manner to Deputy Eugene Murphy or any of my colleagues who may...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: It does not work at a local level. People feel somewhat disenfranchised as a result of what is being done. As regards council boundaries, people will have different Deputies and councillors. There is much confusion in terms of who to support or who is one's representative. Although all Deputies will represent their constituents as best they can, county boundaries are important. Some...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (12 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 362. To ask the Minister for Health further to Question No. 279 of 29 November 2017, if this figure includes persons under 18 years of age entitled to access free general practitioner care by virtue of a medical card; and if not, the number of persons under 18 years of age entitled to free general practitioner care either through the general practitioner visit card or the medical card. [53221/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Data (12 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 363. To ask the Minister for Health his Department's estimate of the number of persons under six years of age who will be entitled to free general practitioner care in 2018 to 2021 respectively; and the estimated full-year cost in 2018 terms of providing such coverage. [53222/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (12 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 459. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her department has concluded its review of the over age exemption; if she will publish this report upon its completion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52688/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (12 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 461. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of applications that were made under the over age exemption in each year since 2016. [52701/17]