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Written Answers — Education Welfare Service: Education Welfare Service (7 Feb 2006)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Education (Welfare) Act 2000 established the National Educational Welfare Board as the single national body with responsibility for school attendance. The Act provides a comprehensive framework promoting regular school attendance and tackling the problems of absenteeism and early school leaving. The general functions of the board are to ensure each child attends a recognised school or...

Written Answers — Education Welfare Service: Education Welfare Service (7 Feb 2006)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Education (Welfare) Act 2000 established the National Educational Welfare Board as the single national body with responsibility for school attendance. The Act provides a comprehensive framework promoting regular school attendance and tackling the problems of absenteeism and early school leaving. The general functions of the board are to ensure each child attends a recognised school or...

Written Answers — Education Welfare Service: Education Welfare Service (7 Feb 2006)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Education (Welfare) Act 2000 established the National Educational Welfare Board as the single national body with responsibility for school attendance. The Act provides a comprehensive framework promoting regular school attendance and tackling the problems of absenteeism and early school leaving. The general functions of the board are to ensure each child attends a recognised school or...

Written Answers — School Absenteeism: School Absenteeism (7 Feb 2006)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Education (Welfare) Act, 2000 established the National Educational Welfare Board as the single national body with responsibility for school attendance. The Act provides a comprehensive framework promoting regular school attendance and tackling the problems of absenteeism and early school leaving. The general functions of the board are to ensure that each child attends a recognised school...

Hospitals Building Programme. (2 Feb 2006)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I join in the Deputies' tributes to all the staff at the Children's University Hospital in Temple Street. We are all agreed that a tremendous service has been provided there for many years. I am taking the matters on the adjournment on behalf of my colleague, the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney. The Mater and children's hospital development is the largest single...

Hospitals Building Programme. (2 Feb 2006)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: In the context of the decision to be taken on the possible relocation of the facilities at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, the Tánaiste asked the Health Service Executive to undertake a review of tertiary paediatric services to ensure that such services are provided in the most efficient and effective manner. As Deputies will be aware, these are the highly specialised...

Hospitals Building Programme. (2 Feb 2006)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The HSE engaged a team of management consultants to provide a report on the strategic organisation of tertiary paediatric services in Ireland. I understand that the consultants' report was furnished to the HSE yesterday and was to be considered by the HSE board today, so the Deputies' request on the adjournment is very timely.

Hospitals Building Programme. (2 Feb 2006)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The HSE has advised that it would await consideration of the report before giving approval for the project to proceed to tender. The Department will now have discussions with the HSE in light of the report to determine how the development project is to be advanced. The primary concern is to ensure that the solution arrived at is in the best interests of the children of this country.

Hospitals Building Programme. (2 Feb 2006)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: With regard to the separate matter raised by Deputy Costello on the future of the Mountjoy Prison site and the possible use of the site for hospital services, I understand that the Office of Public Works is undertaking a site examination on the land that will become available when the prison facilities are relocated.

Hospitals Building Programme. (2 Feb 2006)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: It will be my constituency in the next general election, please God. I suggest the Deputy advise the relevant parties——

Hospitals Building Programme. (2 Feb 2006)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: ——to contact the Office of Public Works in that regard.

Financial Services Regulation. (2 Feb 2006)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I will be dealing with the matter.

Financial Services Regulation. (2 Feb 2006)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am responding on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Finance. A number of specific legal provisions are in place under section 69 of the Credit Union Act 1997 to address issues of a conflict of interest that might arise in credit unions. Under section 69(3) of the Act, individual board members of a credit union are obliged to declare any possible conflict of interest to the board of...

Social Welfare Benefits. (2 Feb 2006)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: As Deputy Durkan pointed out, I make this reply on behalf of the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Brennan. The habitual residence condition was introduced on 1 May 2004. There is a requirement on all applicants for certain social assistance schemes, including one parent family payment and child benefit, to satisfy the habitual residence condition to access the payments. The...

Social Welfare Benefits. (2 Feb 2006)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Even under parliamentary privilege I cannot interfere with the workings of an independent statutory tribunal.

Social Welfare Benefits. (2 Feb 2006)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Does the Deputy wish me to treat this debate as the application for an appeal?

Social Welfare Benefits. (2 Feb 2006)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I have no problem with the parliamentary record being constituted as the basis for an appeal.

Social Welfare Benefits. (2 Feb 2006)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I have no objections to the parliamentary record being treated as the basis for an appeal.

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (2 Feb 2006)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy. However, I also...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (2 Feb 2006)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Adoption (Hague Convention, Adoption Authority and Miscellaneous) Bill is being drafted in the parliamentary counsel's office. It includes a provision enabling a person who is 18 years of age or more and who has been in long-term foster care to be adopted by their foster carer or carers. The intention is to publish the Bill later in 2006.