Written answers

Wednesday, 15 April 2015

Department of Children and Youth Affairs

 
  • Foster Care Supports
    415. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is aware that payments to full-time foster parents of high-needs children are currently being reduced when families need to avail of...
  • After-School Support Services
    416. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total number of children and households availing of the after-school child care scheme. [14866/15]
  • Education Standards
    418. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the provisions made to ensure that children in residential care, including in secure units, are receiving the education to which they are...
  • Education Welfare Service
    419. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the number of children in residential care has come to the attention of the education welfare board during the years 2012 to 2014 and in...
  • Juvenile Offenders
    420. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the education facilities available at Oberstown in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13937/15]
  • Child Care Services Regulation
    421. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding crèches in the private sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14076/15]
  • Youth Services Provision
    422. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in relation to the value for money and policy review of youth programmes, the steps he will take to ensure that the young people's...
  • Irish Language
    424. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps being taken to promote the use of Irish in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14170/15]
  • Inter-Country Adoptions
    425. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the subsidiary principle of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Children in Intercountry Adoption was implemented in the adoption...
  • Child and Family Agency Staff
    426. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the recent dismissal, without prior notice or disciplinary procedures, of a person (details supplied), whose...
  • Child and Family Agency
    427. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children from Ireland who have been sent to Kibble in Scotland in the years 2011 to 2014; the cost in each of those years;...
  • Child and Family Agency Staff
    428. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide details of staffing levels in Tusla-Child and Family Agency, including the number of vacancies in each area, both...
  • Child Care Services Regulation
    429. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the child care sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14453/15]
  • Commissions of Inquiry
    430. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the Commission of Inquiry for mother and baby homes is scheduled to officially begin; the structure and timeline for various aspects...
  • Child Care Costs
    432. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to alleviate the financial burden on parents who have very large child care costs; and if consideration has been given to a...
  • Counselling Services
    433. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to reduce waiting times for counselling services for child victims of sexual abuse. [14645/15]
  • Child Care Services Funding
    434. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to address the situation whereby child care service providers receive capitation for 38 weeks, but their staff are entitled to be...
  • Child Care Costs
    435. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which he expects to be in a position to influence the provision of adequate child care facilities, particularly in the...
  • Youth Services Provision
    436. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which his Department continues to liaise with the various youth support organisations, with a view to ensuring the provision...
  • Bullying of Children
    437. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which his Department monitors the extent of bullying taking place outside work or school and cyber bullying; if any...
  • Child Protection
    439. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of incidents of child abuse of a physical, psychological or sexual nature, reported directly or indirectly to his Department or...
  • Juvenile Offenders
    442. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total number of places of detention currently available to cater for juvenile offenders; the extent of rehabilitative or counselling...
  • Child Protection
    444. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which he expects to be in a position to offer assistance to voluntary bodies or agencies providing counselling or other...
  • Departmental Programmes
    447. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which the Area-Based Childhood Programme 2013-2016 continues to be monitored and implemented by his Department, with...
  • Youth Services Funding
    448. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which he continues to liaise with Kildare Youth Services in order to ensure the adequacy of funding and resources to meet its...
  • Semi-State Bodies Dividends
    449. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a list of the semi-State commercial companies under the aegis of his Department; the policy of a dividend payment to the...

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