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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (8 Mar 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for child welfare issues. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer of the Health Service...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Mar 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I propose to take Questions Nos. 58 and 125 together. The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for services for the welfare and protection of children and for...

Written Answers — Child Abuse: Child Abuse (22 Mar 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of foster care services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for...

Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (23 Mar 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: It is not appropriate to comment on individual cases. The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the welfare and protection of children and for...

Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (23 Mar 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services, including services for the welfare and protection of children and for disability services. Accordingly, my Department has asked the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (23 Mar 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of child support services to parents of children with serious behavioural problems rests with the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (23 Mar 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to plan, manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the planning and provision of services for children with mild to severe behavioural problems rests with the...

Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for unaccompanied minors seeking asylum. I have been informed by the Health Service Executive that the...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. The provision of services under the Child Care Act 1991 as amended by the Health Act 2004, including the provision of family support and child protection services, is a matter for the Health Service Executive. Accordingly, my Department has requested the executive's national director of...

Written Answers — Child Abuse: Child Abuse (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I propose to take Questions Nos. 233 and 234 together. A number of complex issues have had to be considered regarding this matter. These issues are now approaching finalisation and discussions have taken place with a number of involved parties. It is hoped to conclude all considerations in the short term in order for the matter to be finalised. It is not envisaged that the Child Abuse...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for child welfare issues. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...

Written Answers — Child Abuse: Child Abuse (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Eastern Health Board was dissolved on the establishment of the Eastern Regional Health Authority and the area health boards and these bodies were in turn dissolved on the establishment of the Health Service Executive. The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Child Care (Pre-School Services) Regulations 1996 and Amendment Regulations 1997, which give effect to the provisions of Part VII of the Child Care Act 1991 provide for notification to, and inspection by, health boards of pre-school services. The regulations apply to pre-schools, playgroups, day nurseries, crèches, childminders looking after more than three children and other similar...

Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for services for the welfare and protection of children. While it would not be appropriate for me to comment on an...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (13 Apr 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver or arrange to be delivered on its behalf health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for protection and welfare services for children and adolescents under 18 years. Accordingly, my Department has...

Written Answers — Foreign Adoptions: Foreign Adoptions (19 Apr 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Applications for inter-country adoption are processed by the Health Services Executive, HSE, under the Adoption Acts 1952 to 1998, as amended by the Health Act 2004. The process of assessment of applicants for inter-country adoption is set out in a framework for inter-country assessment introduced in 1999 to streamline assessments and to provide a transparent system centred on the child's...

Written Answers — Children Act 2001: Children Act 2001 (20 Apr 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: There are three parts in the Children Act 2001 which specifically relate to the health area. Part 2 establishes for the first time on a statutory basis the family welfare conference. Part 3 amends the Child Care Act 1991 by inserting two new parts, Part 4A, which imposes duties on the Health Service Executive in relation to a child who may be in need of special care or protection, and Part...

Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (26 Apr 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for children taken into care. I understand that the Health Service Executive, northern area has contacted the...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (27 Apr 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Garda vetting services are available in respect of public health sector employees with substantial unsupervised access to children and vulnerable adults. This has been the case over many years. The Garda Commissioner established a working group on Garda vetting to examine the enhancement of the vetting service. This working group made a series of broad ongoing recommendations to expand and...

Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (4 May 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Arrangements with the central authorities in relation to inter-country adoption are primarily a matter for the Adoption Board. The board has remained in regular contact with the Belorussian authorities since inter-country adoptions were suspended in October 2004 and has had a number of very positive meetings with the Belorussian ambassador to Ireland since then. At the most recent meeting on...