Written answers
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Child Care Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children who used the services of the out-of-hours projects in counties Donegal and Cork each month since they were established;... - Ministerial Responsibilities
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her top priorities for 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56685/12] - Combatting Cyberbullying
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her policy to combat cyberbullying; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56696/12] - National Aftercare Service
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the report she has requested the National Director for Children and Family Services to prepare on aftercare provision, including best... - Special Care Placements
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the waiting time that applied in the cases of the three young persons who were approved and are awaiting a special care placement and the one... - Child and Family Support Agency
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if adequate resources to employ social workers for children are in place for 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56708/12] - Child Care Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a breakdown of the way that the €16.5 million has been redirected into childcare places for low income workers and... - Child Benefit Payments
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether the reduction in child benefit will undermine her Department’s objective of achieving better outcomes for children... - Child Care Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to develop a Scandinavian model of childcare here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56688/12] - Child and Family Support Agency
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline her proposals in relation to the proposed Child and Family Resource Agency; if she will confirm that resources granted to... - Foster Care
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to rectify the situation whereby some children in foster care on reaching 18 years are then placed in the care of the Department of... - Corporal Punishment
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Ireland's failure to ban corporal punishment has resulted in the State being in violation of... - Childhood Obesity
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the contribution her Department can make to reduce obesity in teenagers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56693/12] - Children in Care
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the institutions in which children with special care needs have been placed overseas by the Health Service Executive; and if she will make a... - Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the recommendations of the Ryan Report that she has yet to implement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56783/12] - Youth Homelessness
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to undertake a comprehensive review of the coordination, implementation and continued relevance of the youth homelessness strategy.... - City and County Child Care Committees
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the discussions she has had with the Health Service Executive regarding complementary funding supports to county childcare committees; and if... - Child and Family Support Agency
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which she will publish the implementation plan for the roll out of State wide out of hours emergency social care service; if this... - United Nations Conventions
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to ratify the third Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure which... - Child and Family Support Agency
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way she plans to resource the yet to be established Child and Family Support Agency in view of the fact that that the Children and Family... - Youth Unemployment
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the contribution her Department will make to tackling youth unemployment in 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56681/12] - Youth Work
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way the findings of the recent Indecon report on youth work will impact on her policies; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Early Childhood Care and Education Programme
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the fact that childcare funding schemes are presenting more demands on childcare services to avail of particular training or have... - Detention Centres
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which the Oberstown, County Dublin, facility will be fully operational; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56779/12] - Bullying Incidence
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she has studied the incidence of bullying amongst young people which includes social bullying, bullying in the workplace,... - Children's Rights Referendum
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her response to the unanimous Supreme Court judgement that her Department acted in breach of the Constitution during the recent... - Community Childcare Subvention Programme
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for the community childcare subvention programme in 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56707/12] - Child Protection Guidelines
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will confirm that all childcare services provided by persons employed outside the child's own home will be subject to the provisions of... - Adoption Legislation
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if, in relation to the promised Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill and access to records by adult victims of illegal adoptions, she will... - National Children's Strategy
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will list the 20% of actions from the National Children Strategy that have not been completed; and the reason that they have not been... - Domestic Violence
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline her responsibility in relation to children who require the services of domestic violence shelters; if she will confirm that... - Child Poverty
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the recent funding awarded under Budget 2013 to the Preparing for Life Programme in Belcamp, Moatview and Darndale, Dublin... - Child Care Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to regulate all paid child minders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56709/12] - Social Workers Recruitment
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of additional social workers for children that will be appointed in 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56683/12] - Child Abuse
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the audit produced on foot of the recommendations in the report on the Roscommon Child Care Case will be published; and if she will make a... - Children's Rights Referendum
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the McCrystal judgement in the Supreme Court last week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56782/12]
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