Written answers
Thursday, 27 March 2014
Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Departmental Bodies
8. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the current role, including programmes and schemes, of county child care committees; and if further responsibilities could be transferred to... - Children in Care
12. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the current number of children in high support units and in special care units with a breakdown based on the number of children accommodated... - Child Care Qualifications
13. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the main provisions of the learner fund to upskill early years practitioners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14201/14] - Child Care Proceedings
14. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the findings of the Child Care Law Reporting Project that the rate of child care orders being sought varies considerably in... - Adoption Records Provision
15. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her priorities in terms of managing access to adoption records; the amount of expenditure incurred by her Department to preserve and... - Inter-Country Adoptions
16. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Government is committed to the Hague convention as the safest regulations in place for inter-country adoption. [14004/14] - Ombudsman for Children Remit
17. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to extend the powers and remit of the Ombudsman for Children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14200/14] - Proposed Legislation
18. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the practice of child beauty pageants; her plans to ban such events; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14006/14] - Garda Operations
19. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the contact that she has had with the Department of Justice and Equality and An Garda Síochána in relation to allegations that... - Children's Rights
21. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the findings on the right to equality and non-discrimination of Traveller and migrant children contained in the Children's... - HSE Complaints Procedures
22. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps that are open to an adult who was the victim of sexual abuse and had that abuse compounded by inadequate child protection decision... - Child Safety
23. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the discussions which she has had with other Departments on foot of the publication of the audit report on neglect cases; and if she will... - Child Care Services Regulation
26. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if community employment scheme workers are to be considered supernumerary to core child care staff under the new CFA standards; and if she... - UN Convention on Children's Rights
27. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if it is her intention to ensure that the principle and provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is fully reflected in all... - Ombudsman for Children Inquiries
28. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will extend the terms of reference of the children's ombudsman's inquiry into the circumstances of the two Roma children being taken... - Early Child Care Education Issues
29. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will extend the early childhood care and education programme to two years free pre-school in circumstances where local schools change... - Departmental Programmes
30. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which her Department has been in a position to strategically examine and assess any specific deficiencies in respect of child... - Child Care Services Provision
31. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the additional steps she will take to address the availability and affordability of regulated child care services; and if she will make a... - Foreign Adoptions
32. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action that has been taken to speed up advancement in the bilateral agreements on adoption from Russia and Ethiopia while there are over... - Adoption Legislation
33. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of her previous statement that the Adoption Act 2010 is too restrictive, the action she will take in that regard; and if she will... - Ombudsman for Children Reports
34. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has received the report from the Ombudsman for Children, A Meta-Analysis of Repetitive Root Cause Issues Regarding the Provision of...
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