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Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (17 May 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 239. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include asthma in the long-term illness scheme or on another targeted scheme such as a chronic disease card (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23545/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (17 May 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 240. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to conduct a study to show savings his Department could make regarding accident and emergency visits, bed occupancy or primary care visits from asthma sufferers and those diagnosed with asthma if they were to have access to preventative asthma medication either through a long-term illness scheme or a chronic disease card; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Knowledge Transfer Programme (17 May 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 258. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to extend the deadline for knowledge transfer in view of the fact that the online system is not working to date (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23529/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (16 May 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will continue as an ETB in the Carlow area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22907/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (16 May 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the roles, responsibilities and the executive function of an ETB CEO when communicating with parents when their school is at risk of closure. [22908/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (16 May 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the roles and responsibilities of the ETB school board of management of a school (details supplied) when identifying a school has low intake of first years and is impacting on retaining staff levels to deliver a full curriculum; and the governance for recommending for closure. [22909/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (16 May 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the roles and responsibilities of the Kilkenny and Carlow ETB and its members when identifying a school has a low intake of first years and that this is impacting on retaining staff levels to deliver a full curriculum; and the governance for recommending for closure. [22911/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (16 May 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the introduction of the new special educational needs model was a detrimental factor in the closure of a school (details supplied); and the number of teachers the school would lose based on the new calculation. [22910/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Data (16 May 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 289. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons recruited to jobpass in the years 2015 and 2016 (details supplied); the number of persons initially signed up each year; the number of persons who completed year one and went on to complete year two; the number of persons who gained employment in Gort, Loughrea, Athenry, Tuam and Ballinasloe; and if he will make a statement...

Other Questions: Child Care Services Staff (11 May 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: The Minister stated her view that the majority of community crèches were working well financially, but my opinion differs. Many community crèches are held together on a shoestring and by sellotape and are living on the lifeline presented by the introduction of the affordable child care scheme. With the removal of community employment workers, who played an integral part in child...

Other Questions: Child Care Services Staff (11 May 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: To follow on from that, we can be innovative. One of the great services that community crèches provide is the baby room, but it is the largest cost in the community sector. The baby room ratio is 3:1. For every three babies, there is one worker. If six babies are in the room, perhaps a community employment worker could be brought in to facilitate the service. Could community...

Other Questions: Child Care Services Staff (11 May 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 20. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she will take to ensure the community crèches remain viable in view of the decision to exclude community employment workers from child-worker ratios; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22332/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency Services (11 May 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 5. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of cases relating to adult retrospective disclosures that have been referred to Tusla since 2011; the number which remain unallocated; and the number of these that are deemed high risk. [22525/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency Services (11 May 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: This is to ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of cases relating to adult retrospective disclosures that have been referred to Tusla since 2011, the number which remain unallocated and the number of those that are deemed to be at high risk.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency Services (11 May 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her response. I, too, acknowledge that it is a very complex issue. Although I have a script in my hand, I feel compelled to depart from it. People do not realise the gravity of this matter. It is about what happens when a person makes a disclosure in adulthood about an incident that happened during childhood. The person has found the courage to come forward, yet...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency Services (11 May 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister. Adult disclosure referrals are being categorised as low priority. I asked the chief executive of Tusla when he was before an Oireachtas committee recently how adult disclosures are categorised, and they are low priority. That set off alarm bells for me. I still think about the children who are at risk. We need a strategy that seeks to educate, create awareness...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (11 May 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her response. The reason I asked the question, in light of the fact the scheme would be in before September 2017 and the fact that people were led to believe what their entitlements might have been, is that there will be a gap between the qualifications for certain families. There are approximately 9,000 families more or less who will not qualify but who will get...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (11 May 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: This all hinges on when the ICT infrastructure is up and running - in 2018 or whenever the Minister can indicate that it will be up and running. Will those parents then be in a position to get payments backdated if there was a difference in the fees during the year? They have been disenfranchised in the 12 months from 2017 to 2018. I know they will receive the universal level of subsidy,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (11 May 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 3. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on widespread forecasts that child care fees will increase in September 2017 as a result of increased demand under the single affordable childcare scheme, in view of the fact that up to 9,000 households that were initially promised targeted levels of subsidy will now receive the universal level of subsidy. [22523/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (11 May 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on widespread forecasts that child care fees will increase in September 2017 as a result of increased demand under the single affordable childcare scheme in view of the fact that up to 9,000 households that were initially promised targeted levels of subsidy will now receive the universal level of subsidy.