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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (11 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the delegates who have participated in the discussion. I am not a member of the committee and this is the first time I have engaged in a committee other than the one of which I am a member. I am here because of the pure frustration I felt after last year's onslaught, for which nobody could ever have prepared me as a newly elected representative. Ms McElduff and I exchanged numerous...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (11 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the witnesses for their responses. I did not get an answer to one of my earlier questions. I seek a "Yes" or "No" answer from the witnesses from Bus Éireann and the Department. Have they all read what the report of the Ombudsman for Children, Dr. Niall Muldoon, states about bus transport? Does the Bus Éireann carry out a risk assessment for those children who have to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (11 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Mr. Dolan also has to answer my question on the Ombudsman for Children. Have the departmental officials read the report of the Ombudsman for Children?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (11 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I am sorry, Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (11 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Mr. Hernan.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (11 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 704. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the first and full-year cost of restoring funding to the school completion programme to 2011 levels. [32198/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme (11 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 705. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the percentage of the €19 million budget that has been committed to the affordable childcare scheme. [32199/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Community Childcare Subvention Programme (11 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 706. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of families that are expected to avail of each band of subsidy under the affordable child care measures that is being introduced in September 2017. [32200/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (11 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 733. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an oral hearing for a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied). [32174/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I ask that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to meet the president of the Irish Farmers' Association, IFA, today to discuss what Deputy Jackie Cahill is just after discussing.

Early Childhood Care and Education: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Deputy Funchion for tabling this motion this evening. I know it is something that both she and Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire have been very passionate about at committee in the months since I was elected. I heard all the Minister had to say and I welcome her response. She is quite right. There has been a gap from Government for a number of years, in particular in the previous...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Funding (5 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister of State for taking our Topical Issue matter this evening. I will be begin by wishing him the very best in his new role. Yesterday, an article in The Irish Times, which the Minister of State might have read, stated that over 2,400 children were waiting for child mental health services. The Minister may ask what that has to do with the Topical Issue matter I raise. I...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Funding (5 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister of State for his response, but it is the response I expected. I have been raising this issue through communications with the former Minister of State, in the Department, Deputy McEntee, for the past number of months because a red flag was raised about it. I would have communicated with the Minister of State, Deputy McEntee, and the Minister, Deputy Harris and the...

Topical Issue Debate: Treatment Abroad Scheme (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister of State for his positive response, which was very welcome. From what I hear, funds will be made available to families through the treatment abroad fund. The cardiac cases are approved but the liver patient decisions will be made on a case-by-case basis, depending on the location of the patient. Will there be two different approaches for those in the west and in Louth?...

Topical Issue Debate: Treatment Abroad Scheme (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, for taking my Topical Issue matter. Fianna Fáil has been contacted by Children’s Liver Disease Ireland, a voluntary organisation the aim of which is to support families who have a child with liver disease. It is a small group as liver disease in children is uncommon. Nonetheless, for those affected, it is a serious issue for...

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Staff (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her comprehensive answer and welcome everything she said. One of the reasons I tabled my question was to get the answer the Minister has given, namely, that supports are available for social care workers and all those involved with Tusla. The other reason relates to the children who lose a social care worker or when a social care worker, having accessed the...

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Staff (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Tusla needs to think outside the box in this regard. While we acknowledge that it is under pressure in recruiting staff into the organisation, we should consider the opportunities available in terms of co-operating with advocacy groups. I am talking about EPIC and the role of YAP Ireland. We should engage more with these advocacy groups because they have a skill set to support Tusla. We...

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Staff (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 32. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps her Department is taking to address the high rates of attrition and exhaustion among social care workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31220/17]

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Staff (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 554. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps her Department is taking to address the high rates of attrition and exhaustion among social care workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31233/17]

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Staff (4 Jul 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: What steps is the Department taking to address the high rates of attrition and exhaustion among social care workers? Would the Minister mind making a statement on the matter?