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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]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (14 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 147. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason Ability West, Galway County Association is not a member of the Public Sector Transfer Network despite giving financial recognition and increments for years of service (details supplied). [21742/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Council Staff (14 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 152. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of the 70 full time jobs announced for 2016 supported by the Heritage Council that will be allocated to the west to support the range of heritage programmes in County Galway. [21741/16]

Au Pair Placement Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank all the Members who contributed to the debate. I will finish with where I started earlier. The Bill was required to bring legal clarity to the situation of the au pair exchanges in Ireland. At present, there is no definition of an au pair under Irish legislation and the absence of such a definition has created a legal lacuna for both host families and au pairs. The Workplace...

Au Pair Placement Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I can respond to that. I discussed the 30 hours with the Immigrant Council. The approach to this was to bring the Bill to the House, debate it and bring it to Committee Stage so we could bring everybody with us to that Stage, work it through and deliver a result. We could increase the amount for board and lodging, negotiate the amount of hours for work and listen to everybody's viewpoint....

Au Pair Placement Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I thank everybody for being here to welcome my Bill which is required to bring legal clarity to au pair exchanges. There is no definition of au pair in Irish legislation and the absence of such a definition has created a legal lacuna for host families and au pairs. In March the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, made a ruling on an au...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Availability (13 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of awarding a concessionary bus pass to a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21490/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Funding (13 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 280. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of the €38 million additional funding to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency in budget 2016 that is being allocated to cover the agency's new statutory functions of after-care planning under the Child Care (Amendment) Act 2015; if he will provide additional funding to the agency in budget 2017 to cover its new after-care...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (13 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 281. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department or a body under its aegis reviewed the additional costs arising from the provision in the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2015 giving legal entitlement to after-care services for all young persons leaving care prior to preparation of the Bill; the cost of extending the eligibility to a full legal entitlement to an...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (13 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 282. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Child Care (Amendment) Act 2015 will include in the implementation of the Act a specified age at which after-care planning will begin; and how far this will be in advance of the young person turning 18 years of age. [21395/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 53. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the substantial increase between December 2015 and May 2016 in the number of outpatients waiting more than a year for a consultation in University Hospital Galway. [20971/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Childhood Obesity (12 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 87. To ask the Minister for Health his Department's plans for addressing levels of childhood obesity; and the measures his Department is taking to promote better nutrition, healthy eating and increased levels of physical activity among children and young persons. [15261/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Perinatal Data (12 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 551. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to address the low rate of breast-feeding here. [20972/16]