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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Post-Adoption Contact Register (23 Feb 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 457. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that the national adoption contact preference register is put on a statutory footing in the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016. [9369/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (23 Feb 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 458. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that information sources holding records pertaining to illegal adoptions, particularly instances in which no adoption order exists, will be compelled under the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 to transfer their records to the Adoption Authority of Ireland. [9370/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Post-Adoption Contact Register (23 Feb 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 459. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the plans in place to reach out to the more than 2,000 persons who were sent from Ireland to America for adoption from the 1940s to the 1970s. [9371/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (23 Feb 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 460. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will reinstate the stakeholder adoption advisory groups established by her predecessor (details supplied). [9372/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the delegation for their presentations. I attended the ISPCC conference and it was most enlightening. One could nearly make a road-show of it. I was there not only in my role as my party's children's rights spokesperson but also as a parent, and I found it very informative as the guest speakers were outstanding. The ISPCC representatives are right in saying that teachers and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Snapchat does not have a minimum age requirement. Anybody could be on the app with any number of friends. Should a minimum age be recommended for access to these apps?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I agree with Ms O'Sullivan on that important issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Or a week. The Chairman showed me how to do it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I, too, welcome Mr. McBride and his opening statement. The Chairman has presented the background to the joint committee's decision to invite him to appear before us. I acknowledge the speed with which he responded and welcome his open and honest statement in which he identified various issues that have been in the public domain in recent days. I will steer my questions in two directions,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Chairman. Returning to the commentary on the posts that need to be created around historical cases, has Tusla a framework of what is required? Has it the framework set up? Is it in train or at what stage is it? Has Tusla all the staff there? I acknowledge that in itself is a considerable piece of work. I understand there is no policy or strategy from Tusla on how to deal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: -----Deputy Jan O'Sullivan mentioned, while the current guidelines on dealing with adult disclosure cases by social care workers' offices are not fit for purpose, the guidelines do not take cognisance of the effects of abuse on adults coming forward to disclose. HIQA's assessment of the north Lee and south-west services in 2015 stated that the system in place to manage concerns of a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child and Family Agency (22 Feb 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 68. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the circumstances of adult disclosure cases in which relevant third parties (details supplied) should be notified; the definition of third parties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8839/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child and Family Agency (22 Feb 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 69. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the mechanisms for appealing an allegation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8840/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (22 Feb 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 210. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the single payment scheme penalty that was imposed on a person (details supplied) for 2013 has not been reviewed despite an appeal being sent in; and the reason it was deemed eligible for exclusion under the 2013 direct payment schemes. [8846/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff Data (22 Feb 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 263. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of press officers that are employed by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8961/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff Data (22 Feb 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 293. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of press officers employed by Tusla. [9085/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (22 Feb 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 264. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the value of the sustainability fund set aside by her Department for community child care providers (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8962/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Data (22 Feb 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 265. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost to expand the second year child care ECCE scheme from 22 weeks to 32 weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8963/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Data (22 Feb 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 266. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost to expand the second year child care ECCE scheme from 22 weeks to 36 weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8964/17]