Written answers
Thursday, 22 March 2012
- Proposed Legislation
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has met with the Department of Justice on finalising a date for when the National Vetting Bureau and Soft Information Bill... - Departmental Agencies
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she expects the Child and Family Support Agency to be established; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15855/12] - Departmental Funding
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of funding required to operate the 116000 missing children hotline; the level of funding that the State has allocated... - Youth Services
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps being taken to protect front line youth services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15171/12] - Proposed Legislation
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures she intends to bring forward to significantly strengthen the existing legislative, policy and practice framework in... - Child Care Services
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a list of all the residential units accommodating children who are in the care system during each of the past... - Legislative Programme
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which she will publish adoption legislation to accompany a children's rights referendum; and if she will make a... - Children in Care
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for reforming the current structures regarding the appointment of Guardians ad Litem; and if she will make a statement... - Departmental Bodies
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the services that will come under the remit of the new child and family support agency. [15123/12] - Departmental Staff
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has reconsidered the need to set a target for the number of social workers employed in the area of child protection by the... - Child Protection
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she has had an opportunity to study the degree to which children and teenagers are bullied by their peers or... - Mental Health Services
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the proposals she has made to the Department of Health in terms of enhancing mental health services for adolescents and young... - Human Trafficking
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she intends to put in place measures to prevent trafficking in children and child abuse of a mental, physical... - Foreign Adoptions
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will discuss with the Adoption Authority of Ireland whether the body will process current referrals from recognised bodies... - School Absenteeism
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will make a legislative change to address the anomaly in the Education (Welfare) Act 2000 which does not cover four and... - Departmental Staff
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of child protection teams that are short of staff as a result of the moratorium on recruitment; the number of children... - Proposed Legislation
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will clarify the position in legislation of youth work in Ireland in terms of the merger of the vocational education... - Departmental Funding
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the projects or organisations her Department has engaged with since being established and the amount of funding allocated to each... - Departmental Agencies
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide details of any report she has been given by the task force establishing the new child and family support... - Child Care Services
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the fact that the Health Information and Quality Authority is tasked with ensuring that standards are adhered to, the... - Departmental Strategy Statements
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she expects to finalise a strategy to tackle childhood obesity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15849/12] - Proposed Legislation
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she plans to amend section 246 of the Child Care Act to explicitly prohibit corporal punishment in the home. [15102/12] - Child Care Services
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which she will introduce legislation to place the Children First Guidelines on a statutory basis. [15120/12] - Children in Care
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which she will introduce a national policy on special care units; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Health Service Staff
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of agency staff currently employed in each special care unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15109/12] - Foster Care
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason in March of this year that the Health Service Executive reported having 3,769 foster carers, only 3,138 of whom were... - Child Care Services
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to introduce a new holistic mechanism involving all the relevant welfare, health, mental health and educational agencies... - Departmental Programmes
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to develop guidelines for multi-agency involvement with families and children. [15121/12] - Adoption Services
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action she has taken to date and the action she plans to take in order to address the difficulties that prospective parents... - Children in Care
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children placed in the care system during each of the past five years due to parents' inability to financially cope;... - Constitutional Amendment on Children
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which she will publish revised wording for a referendum on children's rights. [15104/12] - Child Care Services
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has met with the Department of Health on the issue of expanding the Health Information and Quality Authority remit to... - Children in Care
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children who are currently being provided with specialist care overseas because the State does not have the... - Child Care Services
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for developing and improving a national child care service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15112/12] - Child Abuse
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the national audit of child neglect cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15172/12] - Departmental Programmes
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will detail her involvement in a roll-out of programmes for children in disadvantaged areas; the level of investment that...
No comments