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Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (9 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: My Office is continuously working to create the appropriate legislative, policy and administrative frameworks that will ensure a well regulated regime of adoption. Our aim is to support and protect the children for whom adoption services are devised and provided and prospective parents. A number of regions of the Health Service Executive were recently listed by the Russian Ministry of...

Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (9 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: I propose to takes Questions Nos. 138 and 180 together. My Office is continuously working to create the appropriate legislative, policy and administrative frameworks that will ensure a well regulated regime of adoption. Our aim is to support and protect the children for whom adoption services are devised and provided and prospective parents. A number of regions of the Health Service...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (9 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (9 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: Requests for assessment for inter-country adoption are continuously increasing. The 'Study on Inter-country Adoption Outcomes in Ireland', undertaken by the Children's Research Centre, Trinity College, between December, 2004, and April, 2007, revealed that Ireland has one of the highest rates for inter-country adoption in Europe. It is against this background that the Office of the Minister...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (9 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: As the Deputy will be aware, I have responsibility for the National Childcare Investment Programme (NCIP) 2006-2010 under which capital grant funding is made available to community and commercial child care providers for the development of child care facilities. With the economic downturn Government expenditure, particularly in the area of new capital commitments, was reviewed earlier this...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (9 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: As the Deputy will be aware I have responsibility for the implementation of the new scheme to provide a free Pre-School year in Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE), which will commence in January 2010. From September 2010, services participating in the scheme will be required to provide full rather than pro-rata pre school year places. Parents will be encouraged to avail of the free...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (9 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: As the Deputy will be aware I have responsibility for the implementation of the new scheme to provide a free Pre-School year in Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE), which will commence in January 2010. A range of options is available to participating pre-school services to provide for the flexible delivery of the new ECCE scheme. A full or part-time day-care service will be required to...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (9 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: As the Deputy will be aware I have responsibility for the implementation of the new scheme to provide a free Pre-School year of Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) which was announced recently by the Minister of Finance. During January to August 2010, to take account of the fact that some pre-school services currently accommodate a greater number of children than they have daily places...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (9 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Foster Care: Foster Care (9 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Foster Care: Foster Care (9 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: I propose to take Questions Nos. 288 and 289 together. As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Social Services: Social Services (9 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: I propose to take Questions Nos. 291, 293 and 294 together. As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (9 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: Under the Child Care Act 1991, as amended, "children's residential centre" means an institution for the residential care of children in the care of the Health Service Executive or of other children in need of adequate care and protection but does not include: (a) an institution managed by or on behalf of a Minister of the Government, (b) an institution in which a majority of the children...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (9 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (9 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: I understand that the work of the taskforce has recently been completed and that arrangements are being made for the publication of the resulting report and recommendations.

Written Answers — Child Abuse: Child Abuse (9 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Social Services: Social Services (9 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Social Services: Social Services (9 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (9 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: My colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, has the lead policy responsibility in relation to social housing. The most recent complete information available to the Health Service Executive indicates that in 2007, 2,991 families were reported to have child welfare concerns. Of these, 193 - or 6% - were deemed to be experiencing difficulty with...

Written Answers — Social Services: Social Services (9 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.