Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 68: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way the new child welfare and protection agency promised in the programme for Government will be established; the process involved; and a time line for each of the steps to be undertaken. [13419/11]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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The Government is committed to fundamental reform of the delivery of child protection services and in this context a new agency with dedicated responsibility for this service is to be established. Preliminary work has commenced on a range of matters relating to the establishment of the new agency including consideration of the various functions to be discharged, the legal framework necessary to underpin the establishment of the agency and the associated governance and staffing arrangements. Minister Fitzgerald will make a further announcement in this regard at an early date.