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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Oireachtas Joint Committee Recommendations (5 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: I propose to take Questions Nos. 491 and 492 together. Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, has a statutory responsibility to provide alternative care services, including foster care services, under the provisions of the Child Care Act, 1991, the Children Act, 2001, and the Child Care (Amendment) Act, 2007. The majority of alternative care services are provided directly by Tusla. When...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (5 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: Assisting families to access high quality, affordable early learning and care and school age childcare is a priority for me as Minister and hence I take these matters very seriously. My Department funds a number of early learning and care and school age childcare programmes.  Given the large amount of public money that is used in funding these programmes, there needs to be an...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (5 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: From September 2018, all children meeting the minimum age requirement of 2 years and 8 months are eligible for a full two programme years on the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme. This measure refines developments introduced in 2016 and increases the duration of each registered child on ECCE from a previous average of 61 weeks, to a potential duration of 76 weeks (two...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (5 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: I can inform the Deputy that my Department has not provided direct funding to the named organisation, Youth Advocacy Programme (YAP) Ireland, in the years specified by the Deputy. However, Tusla, the Child and Family Agency has an annual Service Level Agreement in place with the organisation.  As the matters to which the Deputy refers are operational, I have requested Tusla to...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (5 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: I propose to take Questions Nos. 496 and 497 together. I can advise the Deputy that I have referred the matter to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, for their appropriate attention. The Deputy may wish to note that I am not in a position to intercede directly as there is an obligation that Tusla performs its functions independently. I am also precluded from giving a direction to Tusla that...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Eligibility (5 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone:  The Affordable Childcare Scheme (ACS) is a new, national scheme of financial support for parents towards the cost of childcare.  The development of this Scheme is a significant move forward in delivering quality, accessible, affordable childcare to families throughout Ireland.  The Scheme entails a fundamental shift away from subsidies grounded in medical card and social...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (5 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: Assisting families to access high quality, affordable early learning and care and school age childcare is a priority for me as Minister and hence I take these issues raised in your question very seriously. My Department funds a number of early learning and care and school age childcare programmes.  Given the large amount of public money that is used in funding these...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Rape Crisis Network Funding (5 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: Under the Child and Family Agency Act, 2013, Tusla, the Child and Family Agency has statutory responsibility for the care and protection of victims of domestic, sexual or gender based violence whether in the context of the family or otherwise. Tusla funds 16 Rape Crisis Centres which provide a range of services to victims of sexual violence including: - a helpline to support callers, answer...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Rape Crisis Network Funding (5 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: Under the Child and Family Agency Act, 2013, Tusla, the Child and Family Agency has statutory responsibility for the care and protection of victims of domestic, sexual or gender based violence whether in the context of the family or otherwise. Tusla funds 16 Rape Crisis Centres which provide a range of services to victims of sexual violence including: - a helpline to support callers, answer...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (5 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: Tusla, the Child and Family Agency has statutory responsibility for the care and protection of victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. As the matters to which the Deputy refers are operational, I have requested Tusla to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (5 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: Tusla, the Child and Family Agency has statutory responsibility for the care and protection of victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. As the matters to which the Deputy refers are operational, I have requested Tusla to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Rape Crisis Network Funding (5 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that I have secured additional funding of €1.5m for Domestic, Sexual and Gender Based Violence services in 2019, which brings the total available funding for these services this year to €25.3m. As part of its commissioning approach to the development of services, Tusla is currently engaged in a needs analysis project in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (5 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: Under the Child and Family Agency Act, 2013, Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, has statutory responsibility for the provision of care and protection to victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. In discharging its statutory responsibility, Tusla supports 16 Rape Crisis Centres by providing services for individuals who have experienced sexual violence. Since taking up office,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (5 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: Assisting families to access high quality, affordable early learning and care and school age childcare is a priority for me as Minister and hence I take these issues raised in your question very seriously. My Department funds a number of early learning and care and school age childcare programmes.  Given the large amount of public money that is used in funding these...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Data (5 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: Community and not for profit childcare services are eligible for funding for the Early Childhood Care and Education programme; the Community Childcare Subvention programmes (including the Universal subsidy); and Training and Employment Childcare programmes.  As well as the childcare programmes, community services are also eligible to apply for DCYA capital funding programmes. The current...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Funding (5 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: My Department does not have an oversight function in regard to private care providers. I am referring the Deputy's question to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (5 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: The Family Resource Centre (FRC) Programme is administered by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. I am aware that an application for inclusion in the Programme was made by an organisation in the location to which the Deputy refers, last year. This organisation was not selected as one of the final eleven new Family Resource Centres in 2018. I have secured an increase of €1.5...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Costs (5 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: The matter of rates payments for the early learning and care sector does not fall under the remit of my Department, nor does my Department have a role in determining which properties are rateable. The levying of commercial rates is the responsibility of the Valuations Office, which falls under the ageis of the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government.  In this...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childhood Obesity (5 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: The report that the Deputy is referring to falls under the remit of the Department of Health.  The question is therefore more appropriate for my colleague Simon Harris TD, Minister for Health. 

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (5 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: According to the details supplied by the Deputy, the child in question is not within the eligible age range to avail of the ECCE programme at this time, but will be eligible from September of this year. AIM supports are currently only available to children participating in the ECCE programme. Pobal has advised that no application for AIM supports has yet been made on behalf of the child in...