Written answers
Wednesday, 27 May 2015
Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Child and Family Agency Funding
4. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will address concerns over cuts in funding by the Child and Family Agency to groups that provide support services for children. [19880/15] - Child Poverty
5. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his proposals to utilise the learning from the prevention and early intervention programme and the area based childhood programme to extend... - Child and Family Agency Funding
6. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he accepts that Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, by ceasing to fund the Disability Equality Specialist Support Agency, is undermining... - Child Care Costs
8. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his assessment of the financial burden of child care costs on families; the measures that will be introduced to provide relief for families;... - Child Protection Services
9. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will report on the review, due to be completed on 8 May 2015, of the 700 previously unidentified files which were found in an office in... - School Completion Programme
10. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will commit to reversing cuts to the school completion programme and to ensuring the programme is secured for the future. [20401/15] - Early Years Strategy Implementation
11. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if it is his priority to increase quality in earlier years settings and to build professional development time. [20489/15] - Early Child Care Education
12. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs with regard to the payment per child for the early childhood care and education scheme, the estimated cost of provision for child care... - Child Protection Services
14. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of recent reports on child protection services in County Laois and County Offaly, if he is satisfied that these services are... - Early Years Strategy Implementation
15. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is aware of the Hands Up For Children campaign recently launched by the Prevention and Early Intervention Network, and if he will... - Homeless Accommodation Provision
16. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures he is taking to address the welfare of children living in homeless emergency accommodation for long periods of time; his views... - Proposed Legislation
17. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will report on the current status of the Aftercare Bill 2014; if his Department has examined the Scottish model of after-care... - Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
18. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he had any engagement with the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes; if he will ensure that any issues related to those... - Child and Family Agency Funding
19. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, ceasing to fund the Disability Equality Specialist Support Agency on 30 June 2015; and if... - Child Care Qualifications
20. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the adequacy of the learner fund in assisting providers to train staff for the free preschool year to meet the new child care... - Child Care Services Funding
21. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his Department’s plans to expand the community child care subvention scheme to make community child care accessible to eligible... - Child and Family Agency Services
22. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which he is satisfied that child developmental and support services remain adequate to meet requirements; if any augmentation... - Child and Family Agency Funding
23. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will rescind the decision by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, to cease funding to the south Tipperary Lone Parent Initiative; the... - Child and Family Agency
24. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide details of all contributions made to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, or to any other agency in or supported by his... - Child and Family Agency Remit
25. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, is responsible for the care of children with intellectual disabilities; and if he will make a... - Departmental Bodies
26. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a detailed update on the work and meetings of the interdepartmental group established to address the issue of child care... - Ombudsman for Children Remit
27. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is satisfied that the children's Ombudsman has no remit to investigate 75% of complaints received by his office in relation to... - Corporal Punishment
28. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to introduce an outright ban on corporal punishment and in doing so to remove the reasonable chastisement defence, in order to... - Child Care Services Provision
29. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps he and his Department are taking to increase access to child care, including increasing investment; if consideration is being... - Food Labelling
30. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he has had discussions with the Department of Health regarding the need to have nutritional information on confectionery products,... - Child and Family Agency Services
31. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which he is satisfied that adequate resources remain available to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, to provide the full... - Preschool Services
32. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in the context of the welcome plans for Gaeltacht education launched recently by the Minister for Education and Skills, if his Department in... - Child Poverty
33. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will implement the plan to deal with the 12% of children who are living in consistent poverty and the 18% of children who are at risk... - Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
34. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update regarding the investigations into mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19539/15] - Children in Care
35. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in care who are still awaiting allocation of a social worker; the number without a written care plan; and if he will... - Child Protection Services
36. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update on plans to improve the information and communications technology and the information database systems across... - Child and Family Agency Funding
37. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason behind the recent decision to withdraw the funding from Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, for the Disability Equality... - Child and Family Agency Investigations
38. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of allegations of abuse of children under the care of the Health Service Executive or other State institutions or State funded... - Child Protection
39. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to have any input or make recommendations, specifically under his remit of the protection of children, to the working group set up... - Early Child Care Education
40. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when details of the Open Policy Debate on Future Investment in Early Years and School-Age Care and Education Services, which was hosted by...
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