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Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Funding (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 313. To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding his Department is allocating to a cancer support centre (details supplied) that provides support for children with a cancer diagnosis. [15155/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Funding (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 383. To ask the Minister for Health when he will provide funding for an administrator and secretarial assistant for an organisation (details supplied) that provides a counselling service, treatment rooms and physiotherapy weekly for persons diagnosed with cancer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15296/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 384. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who were registered and diagnosed as having a congenital condition causing loss of eyesight as of December 2016, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15297/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 567. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding compulsory purchase orders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15521/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Scouting Ireland: Discussion (22 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Apologies.

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I am sharing my time with Deputies Mary Butler, Kevin O'Keeffe and Fiona O'Loughlin. I thank Deputy Ó Laoghaire for moving the motion. It is a conversation we need to have. What has been put before us has us back in the Chamber again to discuss this matter. We were here less than a month ago after the revelations about Tuam. "Shocked", "horrified" and "dismayed" are some of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (21 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 425. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of the estates in County Galway (details supplied) on his Department's unfinished housing estates list that remain unfinished. [13200/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Appeals (21 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 1098. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 of 22 February 2017, if he will review the case of a person (detail supplied). [14187/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (21 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 1305. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the constitutional right to privacy of the birth parent will be affected by the commencement of the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016. [13739/17]

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her speech. I welcome all she has said this morning. Deputy Micheál Martin is attending meetings of the ALDE group in regard to Brexit. He sends his apologies. He would have contributed to the debate this morning were he present. Last Friday morning, 3 March, the Minister, Deputy Zappone, informed colleagues and Galway County Council that exploratory...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: We are meeting to consider the Revised Estimate for Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs, for the year ending 31 December 2017, which was referred to the committee by an order of the Dáil on 15 December 2016. When the committee has considered the Revised Estimate, this fact will be reported to the Dáil. I welcome the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, and...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister. Programme A relates to the children and family support programme to provide and improve the existing service delivery arrangements to protect and support the welfare of children, young people and families, including the oversight of the Children and Family Agency.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: A comprehensive series of questions has been asked.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Deputy Jan O'Sullivan has not commented yet so I shall give her an opportunity to do so.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: No. We are discussing programme A.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her presentation. I do not wish to overlap everything that has been said. The Minister mentioned the retention of staff.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Has Tusla tried to recruit expert staff? I mean staff who can head up investigations into historical cases. There are 5,000 historical cases but an ordinary person cannot work in such a department. Has funding been set aside to bring back people with relevant experience, who can manage teams, demonstrate leadership, give direction and deal with historical cases? The CEO of Tusla was in...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: It would be remiss of me not to ask the Minister a question on family resource centres. Has the Department encouraged Tusla to recruit more development workers for family resource centres thus providing early social care intervention? The initiative would remove an awful lot of pressure from many social care workers. We do not have 109 development workers. Are there plans to recruit some?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Some weeks ago I tabled a parliamentary question on the breakdown of all groupings that received funding under the heading youth and young people. It was an unusual question. I wanted to see how funding is distributed across the country. That was the nature of the question. I do not expect the Minister to answer the question today. Can she give me a commitment that in future she will...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: How is it broken down?