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- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (26 Sep 2007)
Brendan Smith: As the Deputy will be aware, I have responsibility for the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme 2000-2006 (EOCP) and the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006-2010 (NCIP), which are being implemented by the Office of the Minister for Children. The Group in question has recently been approved â¬48,215 additional capital grant assistance under the EOCP. I understand the Childcare...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (26 Sep 2007)
Brendan Smith: As the Deputy will be aware, I have responsibility for the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme 2000-2006 (EOCP) and the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006-2010 (NCIP), which are being implemented by the Office of the Minister for Children. The following are the total figures for capital and staffing grant assistance approved to date for the Groups referred to, listed in the...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (26 Sep 2007)
Brendan Smith: The main supports the Government makes available to parents to assist them with their childcare costs are Child Benefit and the Early Childcare Supplement. The latter payment, which is in recognition of the higher childcare costs of pre-school children, is the responsibility of my Office, and it alone amounts to expenditure of over â¬400m in a full year. These payments are universal and...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Sep 2007)
Brendan Smith: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and social services which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Office has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Sep 2007)
Brendan Smith: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and social services which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Office has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy. In view of the reply which has...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (26 Sep 2007)
Brendan Smith: As the Deputy will be aware I have responsibility for the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme 2000-2006 (EOCP) and the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006-2010 (NCIP), which are being implemented by the Office of the Minister for Children. The EOCP has both an equal opportunities and a social inclusion perspective and aims to increase the supply of centre based childcare places...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Sep 2007)
Brendan Smith: I understand from the Parliamentary Affairs Division in the Health Service Executive that a reply to the Deputy's question of 31 January 2007 was issued on 8 February 2007. Under the Health Act 2004, the provision of health and personal social services is the responsibility of the HSE and, as the Deputy's current question contains more specific requests, I have forwarded the question to them...
- Written Answers — Public Inquiry: Public Inquiry (26 Sep 2007)
Brendan Smith: I refer the Deputy to the answer Mary Hanafin T.D. the then Minister for Children, gave to PQ4258/02. I have no plans to establish a statutory enquiry in relation to the matters raised.
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (26 Sep 2007)
Brendan Smith: Under the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme 2000-2006 (EOCP), which is co-funded under the EU Social Fund (ESF), targeted support was provided through the staffing support grant scheme whereby community based not-for-profit childcare providers with a strong focus on disadvantage were awarded grant aid towards their staffing costs to allow them to operate reduced fees to disadvantaged...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (27 Sep 2007)
Brendan Smith: The main supports the Government makes available to parents to assist them with their childcare costs are Child Benefit and the Early Childcare Supplement. The latter payment, which is in recognition of the higher childcare costs of pre-school children, is the responsibility of my Office, and it alone amounts to expenditure of over â¬400m in a full year. These payments are universal and...
- Written Answers — Foreign Adoptions: Foreign Adoptions (2 Oct 2007)
Brendan Smith: Intercountry adoption is regulated by the Adoption Acts 1952 â 1998. The Acts which are most relevant to intercountry adoption are the Adoption Act 1991 and the Adoption Act, 1998. There are a number of statutory procedures regulating intercountry adoption. For example, for an adoption to be recognised in Ireland, all prospective adoptive parents habitually resident in Ireland must be...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Oct 2007)
Brendan Smith: Under the Health Act 2004, the provision of health and personal social services is the responsibility the Health Service Executive. Therefore, the Deputy's question has been forwarded to the HSE and I have requested that they reply to the Deputy directly.
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (2 Oct 2007)
Brendan Smith: Pre-school services are subject to statutory regulation and inspection in accordance with Part VII of the Child Care Act 1991. The Child Care (Pre-School Services) Regulations 1996 and (Amendment) Regulations 1997, which were introduced to give effect to this provision, were replaced with effect from 3 September 2007 by the revised and improved Child Care (Pre-School Services) (No. 2)...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (9 Oct 2007)
Brendan Smith: As signalled at the launch of the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006-2010 (NCIP), the successor programme to the EOCP, a new scheme to support community childcare services with a focus on disadvantage will be introduced on 1 January 2008 and will continue to complement the universal supports in place for all parents in the form of Child Benefit and the Early Childcare Supplement....
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (9 Oct 2007)
Brendan Smith: Under the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme 2000-2006 (EOCP), which is co-funded under the EU Social Fund (ESF), targeted support was provided through the staffing support grant scheme whereby community based not-for-profit childcare providers with a focus on disadvantage were awarded grant aid towards their staffing costs to allow them provide services to families which otherwise would...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (9 Oct 2007)
Brendan Smith: I propose to take Questions Nos. 223 and 224 together. The main supports the Government makes available to parents to assist them with their childcare costs are Child Benefit and the Early Childcare Supplement. The latter payment, which is in recognition of the higher childcare costs of pre-school children, is the responsibility of my Office, and it alone amounts to expenditure of over...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (9 Oct 2007)
Brendan Smith: I propose to take Questions Nos. 225, 251 and 260 together. Under the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme 2000-2006 (EOCP), which is co-funded under the EU Social Fund (ESF), targeted support was provided through the staffing support grant scheme whereby community based not-for-profit childcare providers with a strong focus on disadvantage were awarded grant aid towards their staffing...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (9 Oct 2007)
Brendan Smith: I propose to take Questions Nos. 226 and 227 together. Under the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme 2000-2006 (EOCP), which is co-funded under the EU Social Fund (ESF), targeted support was provided through the staffing support grant scheme whereby community based not-for-profit childcare providers with a strong focus on disadvantage were awarded grant aid towards their staffing costs to...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (9 Oct 2007)
Brendan Smith: As the Deputy will be aware, I have responsibility for the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme 2000-2006 (EOCP) and the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006-2010 (NCIP), which are being implemented by the Office of the Minister for Children. In relation to the Group in question, an interim staffing grant application under the NCIP was recently declined by the Secretary General as...
- Written Answers — Child Care Service: Child Care Service (9 Oct 2007)
Brendan Smith: As the Deputy will be aware I have responsibility for the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme 2000-2006 (EOCP) and the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006-10 (NCIP), which are being implemented by the Office of the Minister for Children. The EOCP has both an equal opportunities and a social inclusion focus and aimed to increase the supply of centre based childcare places by 55...