Written answers

Tuesday, 14 February 2017

Department of Children and Youth Affairs

 
  • Tusla Payments
    662. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if outstanding payments due to a person (details supplied) will be granted without delay. [6744/17]
  • Child Poverty
    663. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the actions which have been taken to tackle child poverty by increasing community based early intervention programmes as specifically...
  • Child Care Services
    664. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the actions she is taking to ensure that child care providers in the community setting have the resources to ensure adequate staff to...
  • Child Care Services Staff
    665. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of child care providers in the Cork city area may potentially not be able to...
  • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
    666. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on proposals from survivor groups to provide for memorials for those that were incarcerated at mother and baby homes, as promised...
  • Cyber Security Policy
    667. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the actions her Department is taking to protect against cyber attacks after the NTMA website was temporarily down for several hours after a...
  • Child and Family Agency Staff
    668. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of staff in Tusla who have been designated as child protection trainers. [6947/17]
  • Commencement of Legislation
    670. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans in terms of training and support to ensure full implementation of the Children First Act 2015. [6949/17]
  • Child and Family Agency Funding
    671. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the funding by Tusla for the provision of counselling services in national schools and specifically relating to a...
  • Family Support Services
    672. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department has undertaken any study or research in association with the Department of Justice and Equality regarding the damage to...
  • Homeless Persons Supports
    673. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the mental health or counselling supports her Department is providing to the over 2,500 homeless children across the country; and if she...
  • Youth Justice Strategy
    674. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the high number of young persons held on remand here which, according to her Department, reached 263 in 2015 and of whom 93...
  • Child Poverty
    675. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will establish a cross-departmental task force to address a crisis (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
  • School Expulsions
    676. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of post-primary expulsions by school in County Louth in 2014-15 and in 2015-16. [7238/17]
  • Foreign Adoptions
    679. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the documentation that must be supplied in order that the adoption of a child from Morocco be recognised here. [7282/17]
  • Early Childhood Care and Education
    682. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if, with regard to eligibility for the second ECCE year, an application can be considered in respect of a child whose date of birth falls...
  • Child Care Costs
    683. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the maximum subsidy a person would receive under the new affordable child care scheme 2017 in circumstances (details supplied). [7377/17]
  • Education Welfare Service
    699. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs arising from reports her Department may have received from school authorities throughout the country appertaining to the health and welfare...
  • Child Protection
    700. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she will take or proposes to take to ensure a more rapid response to reported abuse of children, whether of a physical or sexual...
  • Counselling Services Provision
    701. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she envisages improved counselling services for children at risk and their families; and if she will make a statement...
  • Juvenile Offenders
    702. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which adequate accommodation remains available or is likely to become available in respect of juvenile offenders with...
  • Youth Services Provision
    703. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which her Department has received applications for financial support from various youth organisations throughout the country...
  • Child Poverty
    704. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she can foresee the possibility of addressing the underlying issues contributing to child poverty or affecting child...
  • Children in Care
    705. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total number of children currently in residential or foster care; the extent to which adequate resources remain available to meet the...
  • Juvenile Offenders
    706. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which her Department continues to engage with juvenile offenders with a view to providing rehabilitative or educational...
  • Mental Health Policy
    707. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she and her Department have studied the issue of depression in young persons with particular reference to the...
  • Youth Services Provision
    708. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which a co-ordinated youth support service exist throughout the country; her plans to address such issues; and if...
  • Child Care Services Provision
    709. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the fact that, currently, school age child care services cannot register with Tusla but are able to avail of schemes offering...

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