Written answers

Tuesday, 28 March 2017

Department of Children and Youth Affairs

 
  • After-School Support Services
    22. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total funding available to implement the action plan for school age children; and the way in which this will deliver affordable care for...
  • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
    30. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the interim report on the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes will be published; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Youth Services Funding
    31. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to restore funding to the youth services and facilities fund back to 2011 levels; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Youth Services Provision
    32. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of discussions between her Department and the Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board on the appointment of a dedicated...
  • Child Care Services Provision
    33. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address the anomaly created under the affordable child care scheme whereby the places of children who are currently availing of...
  • Child Protection Services Provision
    34. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in Tusla who have an allocated social worker; the number who do not have an allocated social worker, indicating the...
  • Internet Safety
    36. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of the measures her Department is taking to combat cyber blackmailing, cyber bullying and other forms of online abuse directed...
  • Traveller Community
    37. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the initiatives she has taken in order to ensure Traveller children are provided with the supports they require in view of the recent...
  • Child Abuse Reports
    38. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there has been a full report or if she is planning to commission a report into allegations of abuse and neglect at a home (details...
  • Youth Services Provision
    39. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she will take to address the youth needs in Balgaddy, which is an area of disadvantage and exclusion in Dublin mid-west; if...
  • Child Care Services Staff
    40. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address the need for additional supports to be extended to community child care facilities, in view of the recent decision to...
  • Juvenile Offenders
    41. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the fact that, at any one time, approximately 50% of children in the youth justice system are on remand; her further views on...
  • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
    42. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to make recommendations to Cabinet with regard to a review of the congregational indemnity agreement, in view of the revelations...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education Funding
    43. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on devoting extra funds through the ECCE scheme to preschools located in low income areas; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Child Care Services Staff
    44. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the additional supports that will be extended to community child care facilities following recent changes whereby community employment...
  • Foster Care Policy
    46. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the abolition of the 40 year age gap requirement that was previously used by Tusla as part of the assessment for suitability...
  • Children and Young People’s Policy Framework
    47. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she has been in a position to strategically examine and assess any specific deficiencies in respect of child care, youth...
  • Area Based Childhood Programme
    48. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the discussions that have taken place to ensure that the area based childhood programme can continue to support families in the most...
  • Foster Care Supports
    49. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has considered increasing supports to foster carers; her views on whether the sector is in need of reform; and if she will make a...
  • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
    50. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the establishment of a truth commission relating to institutions such as mother and baby institutions, industrial schools,...
  • Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
    51. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the progress of taking in unaccompanied minors from Calais and on the setting up of the national project office to...
  • Youth Services Funding
    52. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to increase funding to youth services in Dublin's north inner city in view of the recommendations of the Mulvey report regarding...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education
    53. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of consultation between her Department and the Department of Education and Skills and-or the Department of Health on necessary...
  • Child Care Services Provision
    54. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress made regarding a facility (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15213/17]
  • Adoption Records Provision
    56. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she will take to reach out to the thousands of Irish persons illegally adopted to families in the US in order to give them access...
  • Child Care Services Provision
    57. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to include childminders under the affordable child care scheme; and if she is satisfied that the scheme is adequate to address...
  • Child Abuse
    58. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that in 2013 a Health Service Executive counsellor notified the HSE child protection services...
  • Juvenile Offenders
    60. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason there are still seven minors currently serving sentences in Wheatfield Prison in view of the Government's commitment to ending...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes
    61. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to impose additional requirements on the programmes that receive ECCE funding to ensure that the programmes are of a high and...
  • Child Protection Services Provision
    62. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in Tusla who have a care plan; the number who do not have a care plan, indicating the length of time without a care...
  • Adoption Legislation
    64. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the concerns raised by a group (details supplied) regarding the Adoption (Information and Tracing Bill)...
  • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
    66. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she will publish the second interim report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes; the engagement she has had...
  • School Completion Programme
    67. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she will publish a new school completion strategy to further improve school completion rates, particularly in disadvantaged areas; and...
  • Child Detention Centres
    68. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress made regarding the outstanding industrial relations issues at Oberstown detention centre concerning safety of staff and...

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