Written answers
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Departmental Functions
30. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the involvement of her Department in the area of prevention and education relating to addiction. [33521/16] - School Completion Programme
31. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has had discussions with Tusla on the need to increase the budget to the school completion programme; her views on whether there is a... - Guardians Ad Litem
32. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on her Department's paper, Preparing a Policy Approach to the reform of Guardian Ad Litem Arrangements, with particular reference... - Social Workers Recruitment
33. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the deficit in social workers assigned to County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33434/16] - Child Care Services Provision
34. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the new child care scheme is to assist the most disadvantaged in society; the way it is justified that those on TEC schemes will be worse... - Child and Family Agency Funding
36. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding allocated to Tusla in budget 2017 which will go towards implementing the provisions on aftercare contained in the... - UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
37. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to comments by the Ombudsman for Children's Office, the steps her Department is taking to ensure that the United Nations Convention... - Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
38. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she plans to publish the second interim report of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes; the reason the... - Disability Support Services
39. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of applications that have been received under the new scheme to support children with disabilities in the preschool sector; the... - Child Care Services Provision
40. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the provision that is being provided to assist parents who use childminders or relatives in view of the fact that the majority of children... - Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
42. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if, in view of the unfortunate record of treatment of some unaccompanied minors and young asylum seekers, she has satisfied herself that the... - Child Care Services Provision
44. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which a household's eligibility for the new targeted child care subsidy scheme will be determined; if it is intended that PPS... - Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
45. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to recent statements by Tusla that it is not adequately equipped to deal with the transfer of unaccompanied minors from the Calais... - Social Workers Recruitment
46. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social workers who have been recruited in 2016 to respond to the needs of children who have not had a social worker allocated... - Child Care Services Provision
47. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the provision to be provided to new entrants to training and employment child care, TEC, schemes to still be able to afford child care in... - Foster Care Policy
49. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to address concerns around the 40-year age gap provision in respect of foster carers; and if she will make a statement on the... - Child Protection Services Provision
50. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department plans to explore, with the Department of Justice and Equality and other Government agencies, reviewing the pilot access... - Departmental Priorities
51. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the aspect of youth affairs that has generated most concern in the past ten years; the extent to which adequate action was taken; the... - Child Care Services Provision
52. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures she will put in place to support parents who make arrangements to have their children cared for by private child minders; and... - Adoption Legislation
53. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she expects to publish the adoption (information and tracing) Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33527/16] - Children in Care
54. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether Tusla has both the capacity and the resources to ensure aftercare plans for all children who are leaving care; and her... - Child Abuse Prevention
55. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of ongoing reforms in practices for dealing with adult disclosure of child sexual abuse cases by Tusla; if she or officials in... - Adoption Data
56. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the payments to an agency (details supplied) and indemnity guarantees to Tusla that were part of the negotiations regarding the transfer of... - Child Care Services Provision
57. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures she is taking to ensure that the newly announced single affordable child care scheme will not impact negatively in any way on...
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