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Other Questions: Child Care Services (28 Mar 2017)

Katherine Zappone: I share the concerns Deputy Jan O'Sullivan has identified. First, we are conscious of the need to have the lowest administrative burden possible and to have a system that is not too complex and which they can get used to before moving on to the next thing. That is why, in the Department, we have had plans A, B, C and D and we have gone through a number of options to try to identify what is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (28 Mar 2017)

Katherine Zappone: ...discernment, I have decided it is more helpful if the Government can have a little more time to formulate a plan for responding to the recommendations of the commission. I appreciate that Deputy Jan O'Sullivan may disagree but that is my discernment.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Katherine Zappone: ..., we need to increase the number of social workers. The Government has provided the money to me in terms of meetings to ensure that pressure is maintained to tackle recruitment issues. Deputy Jan O'Sullivan has raised the retention of workers before. I know that Tusla is addressing the matter, particularly in its plans for 2017.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Katherine Zappone: Deputies Kathleen Funchion and Jan O'Sullivan asked about ABC funding. This initiative was an innovative and important programme introduced by the last Government under the leadership of Deputy Jan O'Sullivan and her colleagues in order to continue the Department's work on area-based approaches to combating and reducing child poverty. I have had a particular interest in it since assuming...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Katherine Zappone: ...than 15 hours of assistance may be identified by sponsors such as Tusla, with which we are in discussions. Children with very significant needs will have the full cost of their care covered. Deputy Jan O'Sullivan asked if the budget for the affordable child care scheme budget was sufficient. The €19 million provided is sufficient and being added to the €86 million in the...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Katherine Zappone: ...that is going on. This will be very challenging as much money has gone into those programmes and we do not have a funder to couple that. I have a personal commitment to it, as does Deputy Jan O'Sullivan.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (14 Dec 2016)

Katherine Zappone: .... As it will take time to put all the elements needed in place, it can be expected that the relocation of unaccompanied minors will be on an incremental basis. On my recent visit to Greece, to which Deputy Jan O'Sullivan graciously referred, the range of needs of refugee children, especially those without their parents, was apparent and it is important that we are in a position to meet...

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2016)

Katherine Zappone: I thank Deputies Ó Laoghaire, Jan O'Sullivan and Rabbitte for their comments. They have all referred to the discussion of this issue on Committee Stage which was very thought-provoking. I promised to think about it again and I have thought done so. I will outline some of my reflection subsequent to that. The rationale Deputy Ó Laoghaire provided in his amendment, largely on...

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2016)

Katherine Zappone: ...of which the Deputies identified here and perhaps raised in other amendments that they put forward in terms of our discussions of this Bill, will be dealt with in those heads. In terms of Deputy Jan O'Sullivan's question with regard to the appropriate persons, the regulations may prescribe as appropriate persons a class or classes of persons who, in the Minister's opinion, having regard to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 40 – Department of Children and Youth Affairs (5 Oct 2016)

Katherine Zappone: ...the various campaigns that are ongoing to recruit the diversity of staff that will be required by Tusla. I might come back to the question about the family resource agencies in a moment. Deputy Jan O'Sullivan asked about the position of children in emergency accommodation and the things I have identified in that regard. I think she is aware that a section of the housing and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 40 – Department of Children and Youth Affairs (5 Oct 2016)

Katherine Zappone: .... Since children started enrolling, they have become eligible for the ECCE scheme and they are immediately eligible for AIM. I will answer a number of questions about the ECCE scheme raised by Deputy Jan O'Sullivan. The provider should contact the local county child care committee or the Better Start team in Pobal. The details are on the Department's website. We believe the model is...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Katherine Zappone: Some of Deputy O'Sullivan's questions dovetailed with those from other Deputies, especially in terms of Tusla, child welfare and protection, the concern about unallocated social workers, and the recruitment of social workers to help meet that concern. Additional funding of €6.1 million has been provided in 2016 to deal with this issue. Tusla's target is to reduce by 60% the number of...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Katherine Zappone: ...with my Department is satisfied with the progress. Phase one was completed and phase two has commenced. The field work was slightly delayed but we will get back on track. It is good that Deputy Jan O'Sullivan asked about the voice of the child and young person. Obviously, it is central to the role of my Department to ensure that the voice is heard and, more importantly, influences the...

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 May 2016)

Katherine Zappone: ...is timely that the Bill is before the House. It will be another important critical ingredient placed on the Statute Book under the canopy of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, as Deputy Jan O'Sullivan and others correctly mentioned, to give legal effect to the children's rights referendum. As I said yesterday, this will send a message to future generations that the protection...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Child Care Services Provision (29 May 2014)

Katherine Zappone: ...not receive the early years care. In fact, that point may not be true in the case of these particular children. I take the point that the Minister cannot intervene. The Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, said that she cannot intervene because it is against legislation and I do not know whether there is legislation in this case but some form of effort from the Minister to offer...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2014)

Katherine Zappone: ...and renting, as well as to strengthen tenants' rights as a sustainable housing strategy and a key aspect of solving the homelessness problem. I ask the Leader to ask the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, to come to the House to consider this proposal.

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

Katherine Zappone: ...thank the esteemed members of the public who are and have been in the Visitors Gallery, many of whom have supported our work. I thank the Minister, Deputy Hogan, and the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, for attending. I thank them for their reflective consideration of our Bill. It contains detailed proposals on reform and the transformation of Seanad Éireann. Senator...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Katherine Zappone: ...light of cuts, or current policies that have not yet felt the brunt of cost reductions. I ask the Leader to raise this issue with the new Minister of State with responsibility for housing, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan. The Minister of State needs to clarify the current accommodation situation for homeless women in Dublin and set out how the most vulnerable people will be protected while...