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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Strategic Plan 2016-2018: Engagement with Ombudsman for Children (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I have no problem starting. I thank the ombudsman for the presentation this morning. Given that he was representing and speaking on behalf of 1.2 million people, he did very well to condense it down like that. How he summed it up at the end encompassed it all. As he said, it is the small little bits that one forgets that really take away the hardship for the parents and the families. My...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Strategic Plan 2016-2018: Engagement with Ombudsman for Children (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: When one speaks about children accessing information and administrative practices, including children with disabilities, it is necessary try to join up some dots. One must also try to work with appropriate persons, for example, special needs assistants because what is acceptable in one setting may not be acceptable in an educational setting. It is fantastic that a child with a disability is...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Strategic Plan 2016-2018: Engagement with Ombudsman for Children (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I agree.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Strategic Plan 2016-2018: Engagement with Ombudsman for Children (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: The system works for 85% but, in respect of the 15% remaining, we may need to have the flexibility to support the principals and parents, with nobody getting a slap on the wrist.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Strategic Plan 2016-2018: Engagement with Ombudsman for Children (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: It is important that the Departments be able to support the person on the ground making the decisions that are best for the child.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Strategic Plan 2016-2018: Engagement with Ombudsman for Children (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: If all such decisions put the child first, and if it all times it is asked whether the child’s needs are catered for first, one is making the right choice.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way special educational needs organisers who are neither medical nor educational professionals can adjudicate on the veracity or otherwise of such professionals' recommendations as to the needs of children (details supplied). [23357/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on proposals that two special needs assistants, for example, can adequately tend to the acute care needs of six children simultaneously (details supplied). [23360/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on where Children First and health and safety legislation implies two adults must hoist, toilet, change and clean a child, as in any clinical setting, yet, the National Council for Special Education reports his Department has no such ruling in place for school teachers or special needs assistants; the reason one...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Medicinal Products (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the administration of medicines by medically untrained teachers and special needs assistants in primary schools is a potentially dangerous situation (details supplied). [23366/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 376. To ask the Minister for Health the way special educational needs organisers who are neither medical nor educational professionals can adjudicate on the veracity or otherwise of such professionals' recommendations as to the needs of children (details supplied). [23358/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 377. To ask the Minister for Health his views on proposals that two special needs assistants, for example, can adequately tend to the acute care needs of six children simultaneously (details supplied). [23361/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 378. To ask the Minister for Health his views on where Children First and health and safety legislation implies two adults must hoist, toilet, change and clean a child, as in any clinical setting, yet the National Council for Special Education reports that the Department of Education and Skills has no such ruling in place for school teachers or special needs...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (20 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 379. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the administration of medicines by medically untrained teachers and special needs assistants in primary schools is a potentially dangerous situation (details supplied). [23367/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (19 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 499. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total number of meetings held by the Shannon river basin management co-ordination group to date; the details and agencies of those who have attended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22376/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (19 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 500. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Shannon River Basin Management Co-ordination Group has reported to the Cabinet sub-Committee on Climate Change; if the group has put forward any legislative and policy proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22377/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Legislative Measures (19 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 807. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to outline the legislative framework regarding the ESB regulation of the River Shannon; his plans to amend that framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22375/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Proposed Legislation (19 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 919. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way her Department estimated the annual running costs of the proposed au pair council to be €500,000, as she mentioned in her contribution on Second Stage of the Au Pair Placement Bill 2016; the source of the figure she mentioned that less than 1% of child care is undertaken by au pairs; and the total number of households...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Proposed Legislation (19 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 920. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to substantiate the claim made in her contribution on Second Stage of the Au Pair Placement Bill 2016 that 98% of au pairs are women aged in their 30s and half of these are from South America; and the research undertaken by Pobal and the Department of Justice and Equality to which she refers. [22829/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Proposed Legislation (19 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 921. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to which Workplace Relations Commission ruling she was referring when she stated in her contribution on Second Stage of the Au Pair Placement Bill 2016 that the proposal to exempt au pairs from employment law runs contrary to the ruling of the Workplace Relations Commission. [22830/16]