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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Services for People with Disabilities (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 597. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding that has been allocated for the administration of and application process for level four of the access and inclusion model in 2016 and 2017. [50473/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Services for People with Disabilities (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 598. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding that has been allocated for the administration of and application process for level six of the access and inclusion model in 2016 and 2017. [50474/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Services for People with Disabilities (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 588. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of applications made for the access and inclusion model in 2016 and 2017, in tabular form. [50367/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Services for People with Disabilities (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 589. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the average number of hours of additional assistance provided to children at level 7 of the access and inclusion model. [50368/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 592. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she is taking to address the considerable shortages in ECCE places that exist in certain parts of the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50454/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Combatting Cyberbullying (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 593. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her role in protecting children from online bullying, abuse and grooming; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50455/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 594. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she will take to address the evaluations by HIQA that have found that numerous foster care services have consistent and serious failings; and the steps she is taking to ensure that these are addressed. [50456/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 595. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the legislative and ICT infrastructure that will be needed to deliver the single affordable childcare scheme; the date by which this will be delivered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50457/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 596. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the complaints and appeals mechanisms that are in place for foster care parents who feel that they or their foster child have been treated unfairly or inappropriately by Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50458/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Staff (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 599. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of child care providers who have been trained as link workers on the new AIMS model launched in June 2016, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50475/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Data (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 601. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has examined the data protection issues which could potentially arise from requiring ECCE providers to administer aspects of the various State schemes, such as the financial data of parents; if she has satisfied herself that no issues arise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50540/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 602. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the introduction of a 7% increase in ECCE capitation with effect from September 2017, which represents an increase of €4.50 per week for an ECCE-age child on standard capitation rates (details supplied). [50541/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 603. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her strategy to increase investment to all services and especially to children under three years of age, in view of the fact that this can be the most labour intensive and resource heavy area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50542/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 604. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the administration and management of the affordable childcare scheme is being devolved into ECCE providers that are already overburdened with administration paperwork resulting in the requirement to report to at least three Departments or agencies (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50543/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 617. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding that has been allocated to levels 4 to 7 of the access and inclusion model between September 2016 and September 2017. [50656/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 618. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding that has been allocated to levels 4 to 7 of the access and inclusion model to date in 2017. [50657/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I am going to lead on from where Deputy Smith was in respect of socioeconomic factors. It is a question I would have asked of previous witnesses. It has to do with children in foster or residential care. How are those issues addressed through the legal framework in the witnesses' country? If a teenager or young adult finds herself pregnant and there is a care order for her, in this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: In this country, according to Ms Justice Laffoy and the other senior counsel we had in, they have to go before the courts. That brings gestation times into it. It was a question I raised a number of weeks ago. I am spokesperson for children in my party. We have 6,300 children in care in Ireland and somebody has to articulate these questions on their behalf. How are we to address that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: It is just one of those loopholes. I think there is going to be a huge challenge around it. It has to do with children in care. The last day, when we had our own legal professionals before the committee, they clearly told me the process at present. I do not know from a legislative point of view how we can address this anomaly in the system. It is going to be a huge issue. I found the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I would like Professor Pajkrt to do so.