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Other Questions: Foster Care Provision (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: It is welcome to hear that the Minister is looking for a national strategy in the business plan for 2018 because when the report on the situation in Cork came out the other day, it made for very worrying reading. It found that a number of key recommendations made in the previous report had still not been addressed, least of all the recommendation on Garda vetting. It also found that a...

Other Questions: Foster Care Provision (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: As the Minister is aware, the Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs carried out a scope of works in respect of foster care services. One of the recommendations made by the committee was that the powers afforded to HIQA be extended to include powers of enforcement. Earlier today representatives of HIQA were before the committee to discuss the Oberstown Children Detention Campus....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her response. I tabled this question because I recently met a woman who has been trying to get her child, who has a disability, into a preschool service. Even though she lives just outside Portumna, the only preschool service she can get for her child is near Limerick. When I got in behind the bones of it, I discovered that some child care providers do not look on...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I hear exactly what the Minister is saying to me. I do not want to trivialise the situation. While the AIM model provides for absolutely fantastic interventions and wholeheartedly inclusive groupings, it is not working in the sense that it takes 50 days, or ten weeks, for applications to go through. It is a boundary for child care providers who are looking to put systems in place so they...

Other Questions: Foster Care Provision (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 41. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to address the fact that numerous evaluations by HIQA have found that many foster care services have consistent and serious failings; and to set out the steps she is taking to ensure these failings are addressed. [50218/17]

Other Questions: Foster Care Provision (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I am asking a broad range of questions this afternoon. Given that numerous HIQA evaluations have found consistent and serious failings in many foster care services, I ask the Minister to set out the steps she is taking to ensure such failings are addressed. I am asking this question on the back of last week's publication by HIQA of its second Cork report, which is based on the findings of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 40. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is satisfied that each child in need of support under the access and inclusion model is able to access this support in a timely and appropriate manner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50579/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Is the Minister satisfied with respect to the timely aspect in which the access and inclusion model is accessible by parents and child care providers? I would like her to make a statement on that matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Combatting Cyberbullying (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 38. 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. [50555/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Combatting Cyberbullying (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I ask the Minister to clarify her role in protecting children from online bullying, abuse and grooming.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Combatting Cyberbullying (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her reply. It is wonderful to hear that so many Departments are working together on this. I am a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs. Dr. Geoffrey Shannon presented a report to the committee explaining that 59% of all children between the ages of nine and 15 use electronic devices. He explained the harrowing effect online devices...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Combatting Cyberbullying (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: What are the Minister's views on creating the post of digital safety commissioner, as proposed by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs? All the witnesses who appeared before the committee agreed this would be a positive step in the right direction. I compliment the Office for Internet Safety on the good work it is doing. It produced 40,000 booklets but that is only a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 36. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she is taking to address the shortages in ECCE places that exist in certain parts of the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50554/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: The purpose of my question is to ask the Minister the steps she is taking to address the shortages in ECCE places in certain parts of the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her response. I will begin by welcoming that there is now only one entry point in the second year of the ECCE scheme. I also welcome the expansion of the second year of the ECCE scheme. Does the Minister understand where my question is coming from? It is based on a parliamentary question I put to the Department in recent weeks. The reply said there was a shortage...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I welcome that funding will become available. The Minister asked me about crèches and areas I was talking about. I was talking about Mountbellew community child care group. There is another community child care group in Kerry that I was talking about, which is looking at 20 or 30 extra spaces. As a result of streamlining the entry points and removing those in December and April, it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inpsection Report on Oberstown Detention Centre: Discussion (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Chair and thank both witnesses for attending today. A report was completed in 2015 and another report has just been completed. What powers of enforcement does HIQA have, if any, in instances where service providers do not address findings of non-compliance? I am asking this in the context of the failure on the part of Oberstown to demonstrate that single separation was being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inpsection Report on Oberstown Detention Centre: Discussion (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I am going to dig a little bit deeper in behind that question. HIQA is a monitoring group, which gives advice and produces a report. That is my understanding of it. HIQA was in Oberstown. Was either witness part of the inspection?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inpsection Report on Oberstown Detention Centre: Discussion (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Ms Boyle was part of the inspection. When she was there, did she have any concerns for the safety of the staff or the workers while she was preparing the report? Was there anything flagged to Ms Boyle that was of concern in terms of red-line issues and specifically, single separation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inpsection Report on Oberstown Detention Centre: Discussion (28 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Which was an announced inspection-----