Results 121-140 of 9,613 for speaker:Anne Rabbitte

Written Answers — Department of Health: Perinatal Data (12 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 551. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to address the low rate of breast-feeding here. [20972/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Electricity Generation (12 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 740. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the legislation that governs the water level of the Shannon as controlled by the ESB; and if the ESB has discretion over the water level on the River Shannon between September and December, or if this is determined by legislation. [21134/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse (12 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 823. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she will implement the recommended action 75 of the Ryan implementation group for a professionally managed national archive to be developed as a central repository for the records for all children in care; her views that there are barriers to the implementation of this recommendation. [21146/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency (12 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 824. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, has informed all community programmes and community groups under its remit of its budget for 2016 and 2017; if she has signed off on this budget to these groups; and the groups whose funding from the agency has been reduced or discontinued for 2016 and 2017, in tabular form. [21149/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency (12 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 825. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, provided to the Health Service Executive for the provision of child counselling services in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to date; her plans and proposals for the agency to take over the direct provision of child counselling services; and if she or the agency has examined providing child...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Community Childcare Subvention Programme (12 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 826. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of new places on the community child care subvention scheme which have been taken up by private providers as well as community providers since the announcement of the expansion to the scheme in budget 2016, by category. [21173/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (12 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 827. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of family resource centres that exist and are fully operational. [21174/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Expenditure (12 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 828. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, spent on community programmes, by county, in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to date, including spending on family resource centres, school completion and area based childhood, ABC, programmes. [21175/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (12 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 829. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount her Department spent on aftercare for children not in foster care or in the direct care of the Health Service Executive in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to date; and the number of children in this regard. [21176/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (12 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 830. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of capital funding allocated to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to date in comparison to the capital spending outturn by the agency in these years. [21177/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commencement of Legislation (12 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 832. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she will issue a commencement order for the Child Care (Amendment) Act 2015. [21341/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commencement of Legislation (12 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 833. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to provide a list of all Bills which have passed Final Stage in the Houses of the Oireachtas but are yet to be commenced by her Department. [21342/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (12 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 834. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to provide a gender breakdown of children in State care and in foster care at present. [21343/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Expenditure (12 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 835. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the standard payment that Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, pays private residential care companies for each child in their care weekly and annually; if payments are made to these providers on a per-child basis or a per-bed basis; and the average cost to Tusla of providing a care place in State-provided care and in a voluntary provided...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (12 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 836. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of private residential care companies contracted by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, to operate in the care system; and the number of children in this type of care. [21345/16]

Au Pair Placement Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I thank everybody for being here to welcome my Bill which is required to bring legal clarity to au pair exchanges. There is no definition of au pair in Irish legislation and the absence of such a definition has created a legal lacuna for host families and au pairs. In March the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, made a ruling on an au...

Au Pair Placement Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank all the Members who contributed to the debate. I will finish with where I started earlier. The Bill was required to bring legal clarity to the situation of the au pair exchanges in Ireland. At present, there is no definition of an au pair under Irish legislation and the absence of such a definition has created a legal lacuna for both host families and au pairs. The Workplace...

Au Pair Placement Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: I can respond to that. I discussed the 30 hours with the Immigrant Council. The approach to this was to bring the Bill to the House, debate it and bring it to Committee Stage so we could bring everybody with us to that Stage, work it through and deliver a result. We could increase the amount for board and lodging, negotiate the amount of hours for work and listen to everybody's viewpoint....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Availability (13 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of awarding a concessionary bus pass to a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21490/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Funding (13 Jul 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 280. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of the €38 million additional funding to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency in budget 2016 that is being allocated to cover the agency's new statutory functions of after-care planning under the Child Care (Amendment) Act 2015; if he will provide additional funding to the agency in budget 2017 to cover its new after-care...