Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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Question 564: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the names of agencies which provide staff for her Department and for bodies and agencies under its aegis; the services they provide; the numbers of staff they provide; the cost of those services; the way this compares with direct employment of staff in equivalent roles; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36222/11]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The schoolreturn.ie system requires schools to submit absence reports to the National Education and Welfare Board (NEWB) on a quarterly basis. Some schools submit this information manually and in order to capture this data in a timely manner and to assist schools with their queries, the NEWB employs data entry staff from Arcline and Gillian Black. Staff are used only as required and are available at short notice to the NEWB. The total cost to date is approximately €51,800. A comparison is not possible as there are no direct employees with these equivalent roles. The Ombudsman for Children's Office is an independent statutory body established under the Ombudsman for Children Act 2002 and I have referred the Deputy's question to that Office for direct reply.