Written answers

Tuesday, 15 May 2012

  • Preschool Curriculum
    Question 97: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she is taking to ensure the Aistear curriculum is being followed by pre school providers; and if she will make a...
  • Inter-Country Adoptions
    Question 98: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of inter country adoptions approved in 2011 by Irish residents adopting from Hague ratified countries; and if she will...
  • Foster Care Services
    Question 99: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to ensure that the 14.4% of unapproved foster carers who are not relatives of the foster child will be approved by the...
  • Youth Services
    Question 100: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she has access to the necessary resources to develop a comprehensive range of youth support services in line...
  • Child Care Services
    Question 101: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children who were identified by the Health Service Executive as having parents or guardians who were financially...
  • Children's Rights Referendum
    Question 102: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will confirm that the referendum on children's rights will be a stand alone referendum; and if she will make a statement...
  • Youth Services
    Question 103: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 32 of 3 November 2011, the progress that has been made in her Department's review of the...
  • Children's Residential Centres Inspections
    Question 104: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the inspection regime and standards to which non-statutory private or voluntary run residential centres for children are subject;...
  • Child and Family Support Agency
    Question 105: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a progress update on the establishment of the new Child and Family Services Agency; if she will confirm if...
  • Children and Young People's Policy Framework
    Question 106: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she plans to publish a new national youth justice strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23966/12]
  • Adoption Legislation
    Question 107: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which she will publish legislation regarding adoption; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23964/12]
  • Review Group on Child Deaths
    Question 108: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she received the Independent Report into the Deaths of Children in the Care of the State; the reason she has not moved to...
  • Missing Children's Hotline
    Question 109: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she plans to allocate funding to the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children for the operation of the 116000...
  • Child Protection
    Question 111: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she received the fifth Report of the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection and the reason she has not published same; and...
  • Child Abuse Prevention Training
    Question 112: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the European Economic and Social Committee made a recommendation in 2006,...
  • Youth Services
    Question 113: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has any contingency plans to deal with the fall-out of the cuts affecting disadvantaged young persons, cuts to drugs...
  • Services for Children with Disabilities
    Question 115: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the difficulties facing parents in obtaining State supports for children with intellectual and or physical...
  • Garda Vetting of Personnel
    Question 116: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons employed to work directly with children by the Health Service Executive who are still waiting for Garda...
  • Social Work Staff
    Question 117: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social workers that have retired since 1 January 2012; the number of these posts which have been replaced; and if...
  • Child Poverty
    Question 118: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has met with, or plans to meet, the Department of Finance to urge them to ensure that children's rights are protected in...
  • Inter-Country Adoptions
    Question 119: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she has taken to facilitate the inter country adoption process between Ireland and Hague compliant countries since...
  • Child Care Services
    Question 121: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she intends to introduce a Scandinavian system of childcare here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24032/12]
  • Child and Family Support Agency
    Question 122: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has met with her Ministerial counterparts in the north of Ireland to discuss the matter of joint cooperation in the work...
  • Juvenile Offenders
    Question 124: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the arrangements in place for the transfer of children still in St. Patrick's Institution, Dublin, to another more suitable...
  • Social Work Staff
    Question 127: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has replaced the 31 social worker staff that retired in February 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. ...
  • Children and Young People's Policy Framework
    Question 128: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which she will publish her National Children and Young People Policy Framework; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Inter-Country Adoptions
    Question 129: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she intends to sign a bilateral agreement with the Russian authorities to allow families to legitimately adopt children...
  • Adoption Legislation
    Question 131: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress made regarding legislation dealing with adoption. [23994/12]
  • Child Care Services
    Question 132: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to provide supports for transgender children; if she has met with the Department of Health on this matter. [23953/12]
  • Child and Family Support Agency
    Question 134: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number and type of additional posts that will be created for the establishment of the new Child and Family Support Agency;...
  • Legislative Programme
    Question 135: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has met with the Department of Social Protection to discuss the impact that the Social Welfare Bill will have on...
  • Ombudsman for Children
    Question 137: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will consider expanding the role of the Ombudsman for Children to allow for the Ombudsman to take complaints from those...
  • Social Work Staff
    Question 138: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to adequately resource social workers and ensure that they have manageable case loads in the context of forthcoming...
  • Child Care Services
    Question 139: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which the Health Service Executive will publish their external review of alternative care services; and if she will...
  • Departmental Staff
    Question 140: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she has secured adequate resources including legislative and administrative provision in regard to the...

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