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Topical Issue Debate: Cereal Sector (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: The Minister's absence for 24 minutes has been noted and recorded. While we can all run late, to say I am disappointed is to put it mildly. The Fianna Fáil Party has called on the Government to establish a crisis fund for farmland badly damaged by recent weather. Such a fund would be one element in the effort to address problems being experienced by tillage farmers. As Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Reserve (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 52. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda reservists in the Galway Garda division. [27420/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Policing (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 87. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to increase the number of community gardaí in the Galway Garda division. [27419/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office Data (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 91. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide estimates for the number of children under five years of age in households earning below €47,000 gross income per annum; the number of these households headed by lone parents; and the number of these households that are working more than 25 hours per week. [27601/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office Data (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 92. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide estimates for the number of children under five years of age with parents working more than 25 hours per week, whose primary form of child care is undertaken by a child-minder or a relative and the number whose care is undertaken in a centre-based setting such as a creche. [27602/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 260. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the rationale behind the restriction that parents cannot avail of the early childhood care and education scheme and a CCS fee reduction at the same time; and her views that this discriminates against low income parents who use the CCS scheme for full-time child care. [27600/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Community Childcare Subvention Programme (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 261. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of parents in each individual band, that is A, AJ, B, availing of the community childcare subvention programme reduced weekly fees for child care; and the number of parents receiving rates for full-time services, a part-time service, sessional service or a shorter hours service in each band. [27603/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Community Childcare Subvention Programme (28 Sep 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 262. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of the €16 million provided in budget 2016 to create an additional 3,200 full-time equivalent community childcare subvention, CCS, and community childcare subvention private, CCSP, child care places that has been recouped from the Department or Pobal from providers to date in 2016; and the number of...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Procedures (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: Offside.

Other Questions: Child Protection Services Provision (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 14. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the inadequate central referral system used by social worker services and the absence of a central ICT system. [23056/16]

Other Questions: Child Protection Services Provision (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I ask the Minister to outline her views on the inadequate central referral system used by social work services in the absence of central IT. I take on board that the Minister has answered many of my questions on the absence of a central IT system, but I would like to hear her views on how that is impacting on social workers who are trying to make referrals through a central system.

Other Questions: Child Protection Services Provision (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: The Minister has hit on the kernel of the issue, namely, the lack of communication among social workers. If a child in Galway moves to Dublin, social workers cannot access the relevant data. That is where things are falling down. I welcome what the Minister said earlier. If we have the correct IT system in place in 2017 and money is ring-fenced from capital funding, that will go a long...

Other Questions: Family Resource Centres (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 7. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to address concerns that Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, is providing inadequate levels of resources to family resource centres throughout the country and does not property support their vital community role. [23060/16]

Other Questions: Family Resource Centres (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: Will the Minister address concerns that Tusla is providing inadequate levels of funding of resources to the family resource centres throughout the country and does not properly support their vital community role? I will give the Minister a chance to gather herself.

Other Questions: Family Resource Centres (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: Will I give way to Deputy Jan O'Sullivan?

Other Questions: Family Resource Centres (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: There is no rush.

Other Questions: Family Resource Centres (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: Does the Minister want to take Deputy O'Sullivan's question first?

Other Questions: Family Resource Centres (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: It is no hassle.

Other Questions: Family Resource Centres (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: Is that okay?

Other Questions: Family Resource Centres (21 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I heard all that the Minister has said but, every year over the past number of years, and particularly since 2011, there has been a budgetary cut of 5% and this has had an impact on family resource centres. Last year a family resource centre in Duagh in County Kerry got €108 from Tusla. I could not believe it when I read it. That is one of those in the statistics; that is one of our...