Results 1,601-1,620 of 1,950 for speaker:Denise Mitchell

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (24 Jan 2018)

Denise Mitchell: 154. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children that have spent more than one, three, five and eight years respectively on voluntary care orders, in tabular form. [3577/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (24 Jan 2018)

Denise Mitchell: 155. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in foster care, residential care, relative foster care and other care placements, in tabular form; and the number of these children with an allocated social worker. [3578/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (24 Jan 2018)

Denise Mitchell: 156. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of child protection referrals made to Tusla in 2017. [3579/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency (24 Jan 2018)

Denise Mitchell: 157. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether Tusla has adequate resources to deal with the expected increase in workload due to the new regulations requiring the mandatory reporting of child protection concerns. [3580/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (24 Jan 2018)

Denise Mitchell: 158. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the process undertaken by her Department to advertise outside of the State for witnesses to come forward to the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3581/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (24 Jan 2018)

Denise Mitchell: 159. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has met with a group (details supplied); and her plans to meet the group regarding the expert technical report on Tuam. [3582/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (24 Jan 2018)

Denise Mitchell: 160. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to failures by the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes to correspond or reply to survivors living abroad that had contacted the Commission. [3583/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (24 Jan 2018)

Denise Mitchell: 162. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason persons that have testified to the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes have not been permitted access to that testimony along with their own personal records. [3586/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (24 Jan 2018)

Denise Mitchell: 161. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there has been progress on her proposal to examine a transitional justice approach to deal with the legacy of mother and baby homes. [3585/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (24 Jan 2018)

Denise Mitchell: 182. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the process of monitoring and inspecting accommodation for homeless families will begin; if this inspection regime will be independent; and if commercial premises being used to provide homeless accommodation will be inspected. [3574/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (24 Jan 2018)

Denise Mitchell: 183. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of families that were placed in family hubs in 2017; and the number of these families that have left family hubs for other accommodation. [3587/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (24 Jan 2018)

Denise Mitchell: 184. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of families in family hubs; and the length of time these families have spent in family hubs, in tabular form. [3588/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (24 Jan 2018)

Denise Mitchell: 185. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of families that have been in family hubs for periods of more than three and six months respectively, in tabular form. [3589/18]

Hospital Trolley Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2018)

Denise Mitchell: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important motion. I thank the wonderful staff of our hospitals and our health service across the State. Without the tireless work they do, our health service would be in a much worse situation. Those who experience the stress of having their children or their parents in hospital are having to deal with the added worry that their loved ones will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Annual Report of Ombudsman for Children 2016: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Denise Mitchell: I thank Dr. Muldoon for the presentation and for the hard work done by the Office of the Ombudsman for Children. I wish to raise some issues today, the first being housing and children who are homeless. It is a shameful fact that there are more than 3,100 children homeless in this State. Here we are talking about mental health and other issues. The children are living in conditions, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Annual Report of Ombudsman for Children 2016: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Denise Mitchell: Basically, we would be looking for the local authorities to go in and inspect, that is, to carry out spot checks. I have another quick question on local authorities. The report refers to Simon, a lad with disabilities, and his experience of local authority housing. Is that something the office is coming up against regularly with local authorities? These are people with specific needs.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Charges (16 Jan 2018)

Denise Mitchell: 737. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that have been taken by the HSE in relation to persons with general practitioner visit cards or medical cards being charged by general practitioners for blood tests; the circumstances in which general practitioners may charge for blood tests; the engagement he has had with the HSE and general practitioner representative bodies on this issue; and...

McCartan Report on the Stardust: Statements (14 Dec 2017)

Denise Mitchell: For those who do not know, Bonnybrook is in Coolock on the north side of Dublin. One of the criticisms of this report from the Relatives and Victims Committee is that experts were not interviewed, including fire experts, forensic pathologists, building experts and key witnesses. That includes the external witness who had made an emergency telephone call that placed the fire on the roof...

McCartan Report on the Stardust: Statements (14 Dec 2017)

Denise Mitchell: I welcome the survivors and families of victims of the Stardust fire to the Public Gallery. Everyone here remembers the night of the Stardust fire and the weeks and months that followed. Something that always stands out for me is my memory of the queues of people outside our local phone box in Darndale trying to get through to friends and family to make sure they were safe. A very dark...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (12 Dec 2017)

Denise Mitchell: 470. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the rationale as to the reason the ECCE over age exemption is not being kept in place alongside the additional ECCE year for the small number of children that may need to avail of it. [52993/17]