Written answers
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Child Abuse
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will carry out an investigation into the reason the Midland Health Board failed to take any action on the substantial records that they... - Health Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the expected loss of services provided by Lifestart in west Kildare and Offaly affecting hundreds of... - Family Support Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide representation to the family resource centres on the family services committee currently being developed in acknowledgement... - Children in Care
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in care with an assigned social worker in February 2011; the current number without for each; the proportion for each;... - Proposed Legislation
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she expects to publish the Children's First legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36991/12] - Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of individual, not WTE, social workers in February 2011; the number now; the number expected to be provided by the end of the year;... - Adoption Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the average waiting time at present for inter country adoptions; the way this compares to previous years; and if she will make a statement on... - Child Care Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to introduce a Scandinavian system of childcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36996/12] - Departmental Bodies
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of agencies, authorities, boards, committees, working groups, tribunals, council services, task forces, agencies or other quangos set... - Departmental Bodies Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of each quango in her Department; the amount expected to be saved from the mergers of quangos in her Department; the basis... - Job Creation Issues
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of new jobs created by her Department as a result of the jobs initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37272/12] - Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total amount spent on taxis by her Department since February 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37320/12] - Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of press officers in her Department; the number of press officers in each agency under her auspices; the total cost of press officers... - Appointments to State Boards
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total number of board appointees she has made since she came to office; the names, salaries and expenses of each; and if she will make a... - Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will detail, in tabular form, the total photography costs for her Department since coming to office inclusive of costs incurred from use... - Ministerial Adviser Pay
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number and names of all special advisers, special press ;advisers, or any other type of Ministerial adviser in... - Consultancy Contracts
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide detail in tabular form, the names of all external public relations and consultancy persons and organisations used by her... - Ministerial Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the gross annual salary costs for her private and constituency offices at present; the same figures for this time last year; and the same... - Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will detail in tabular form, the amount paid on external public relations and communications consultants since February 2011; the reason... - Ministerial Transport
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount spent by her Department on drivers and Ministerial transport since February 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Child Protection Issues
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to introduce vetting in respect of persons taking charge of foster children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37640/12] - Family Support Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update on the position of a family resource centre (details supplied) in County Westmeath in the context of a reduction in... - Health Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [37719/12] - Departmental Reports
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the fifth annual report of the Special Rapporteur on Children willl be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37739/12] - Labour Court Recommendations
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will supply a list of all Labour Court recommendations that have been issued in respect of her Department and organisations under her... - Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding recruiting persons with a disability; the number of persons currently employed in her Department; the number of persons... - Family Support Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the 45% reduction in funding from the Family Support Agency for an agency (details supplied) in Galway; if this decision will be... - Capital Expenditure Programme Issues
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to introduce another round of capital grants for montessori's, creches, preschools and child-care facilities in 2013; and if she will... - Child Care Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the approval of the early childhood care and education scheme for a child care facility (details supplied) in County... - Foreign Adoptions
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the Adoption Authority of Ireland will start processing adoptions from India; when will an agent be appointed; and if she will make a... - Child Protection Issues
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a case conference has been held in relation to the cases of persons (details supplied) in County Meath; if no case conference was held the... - Departmental Staff Training
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of money spent on an annual basis on education and training of staff in 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of staff that availed of... - Appointments to State Boards
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline, in tabular form, both the number and the percentage of women and men on State boards under the aegis of her Department in... - Children in Care
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will list the residential child care centres in Dublin North East; the number of young persons in each of these centres; the budget... - Child Care Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reasons the Health Service Executive made the decision to close a children's residential unit in Dublin Central (details supplied); if her... - National Lottery Funding Applications
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of projects receiving National Lottery funding through her Department since the creation of the Department of Children and Youth... - School Completion Programme
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the options open to schools and coordinators if funding for the school completion programme is cut; and if she will make a statement on the... - Adoption Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on establishing a statutory inquiry on adoptions from Ireland to the U.S.A. in the 1950's and 1960's; and if she will make a statement... - Appointments to State Boards
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she is taking to ensure that State boards have at least 40% of each gender, as provided for in the Programme for Government; the... - Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a list of the payments made by the State to private land owners in 2010 and 2011 to acquire land for use in the public... - Appointments to State Boards
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of appointments that have been made to positions available on the boards of semi-State companies and statutory agencies following...
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