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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (7 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: Funding of more than a quarter of a billion euro is invested annually by my Department in early years services with the greater proportion of this funding going to support the childcare support programmes – the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme, the Community Childcare Subvention (CCS) programme, and the Training and Employment Childcare (TEC) programmes. This...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Carers Strategy (7 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: The National Carers' Strategy is led by the Department of Health and many Departments including the Department of Children and Youth Affairs have a role to play in its implementation. In September 2014 officials from my Department and the Child and Family Agency met with the National Carers' Association to discuss the role of the Department and the Agency in relation to the National Carers'...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (7 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: As of Friday 3 July 2015 the occupancy of the Oberstown campus, Lusk, Co Dublin was as follows. There were 16 boys detained in Oberstown Boys School, comprising 4 boys on remand and 12 boys serving a sentence of detention. There were 19 boys detained in Trinity House School, comprising 8 boys on remand and 11 boys serving a sentence of detention. There were no girls detained in Oberstown...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (7 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: The information requested by the Deputy is not readily available in the format requested. However, I can confirm that in 2014, a total of 33 boys were remanded in custody to Trinity House School. In 2013, the comparable figure was 30 boys. The Deputy may wish to note that many boys who are remanded in custody are remanded on more than one occasion. I have requested my Department to...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (7 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: The average number of days for which children were remanded in custody to the Children Detention Schools at Oberstown, Lusk, County Dublin in 2013 was 25 days and in 2014 it was 22 days. Data in respect of 2015 is not currently available. The judiciary are independent in the performance of their functions and the discretion as to whether or not to remand a child in custody is solely for...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (7 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: Section 88 of the Children Act 2001 provides that a court may remand a child in custody who is charged with or found guilty of an offence, who is being sent forward for trial or in respect of whom the court has postponed a decision. The section also provides that a court shall not remand a child in custody if the only reason for so doing is that the child is in need of care or protection or...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (7 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: The 3 children detention schools currently in operation are Trinity House School for males, Oberstown Boys School and Oberstown Girls School, all of which are located on a campus in Oberstown, Lusk, Co Dublin. Under current arrangements, the children detention schools are authorised to detain: males remanded in custody from 10 years of age up to 17 years; males serving a sentence of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (7 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: The question of where a child resides while detained in a children detention school is a matter of individual professional assessment and regular review by Oberstown management in each case. Relevant criteria include whether the child is remanded in custody or serving a sentence of detention, the age of the child, any physical or mental health issues presenting, the child’s...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (2 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: I am pleased to have the opportunity to update the Joint Committee on Health and Children on the progress made and the key issues on which we have been working since the last quarterly meeting which was held on 19 February. Several issues of relevance to the Department have been raised before the committee in the intervening period. I thank the committee for its ongoing interest in these...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (2 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: I thank the Deputies for their comments and questions and I will answer them as best I can. Deputy Troy asked who will take responsibility for the material that was published and for the children's referendum. In this regard, I emphasise the court found that the Government acted in a bona fide manner at all times. Moreover, the Department and the Minister of the day entered into the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (2 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: We most certainly are and I gave the figures to the committee previously. The number in the recruitment process currently is 128 and staff turnover is 3.57%. There are variations in different parts of the country and the current social worker head count is 1,543. There is no question that we want more social workers. My Department leads the special needs interdepartmental group. This...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (2 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: Nonetheless, if that is happening, I want to know why and to see how it can be addressed because it is not in anyone's interest that we do not have full transparency and information for Deputies to base their policies and concerns on. Senator van Turnhout raised the issue of the educational attainment level in Oberstown. That is something we should examine but it is an indication of "in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (2 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: Many people are capable. Speaking as a doctor, people can be trained to use an EpiPen. Parents can be trained, for example, and, ergo, child care staff can also be trained to use one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (2 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: It is both a specific case and a general issue. In Questions Nos. 21 and 22 Deputy Ciara Conway specifically mentioned the model review. There is a specific reason for it. It is a young agency which brings together three previously separate organisations in one agency and it is a challenge. Tusla is focused on the need to address legacy issues arising from its three parent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (2 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: We have a range of services for those who suffered as children but who do not come forward until they are adults. If they do not come forward, we certainly cannot go chasing them, but I know that the Deputy is not saying that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (2 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: The issue for Tusla is to receive information on adults against whom an allegation was made to protect children. Adults who suffered abuse when they were younger are dealt with by the HSE through its counselling services. The services available include primary care services, a person's GP and, if necessary, referral to the mental health services. From that point onwards it is a separate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (2 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: It is not that we do not have a role; I have explained Tusla's role.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (2 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: The provision of counselling services is a matter for the HSE. We provide counselling services for younger people. That is our remit and role, but there is a crossover in the case of a person who was abused years ago and where the abuser is still around. Does that person now pose a risk to children?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (2 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: Deputy Regina Doherty talked about the centre at Oberstown, staffing and IR issues and ongoing negotiations. It is not unexpected that there are staff IR issues when three schools are being amalgamated. That was the reason we brought forward legislation. We want to make the best use of these facilities. We want it to be one school under a principal and to reduce administration costs....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (2 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: Will the Chairman, please, indulge me because it is very difficult to remember all of the questions asked? I have already missed the Deputy's middle question. On prioritising the adoption (amendment) Bill, we are doing this now that the children's rights referendum has been passed. The Deputy asked why we deferred meeting the educational requirements by 12 months. What was his middle...