Kathleen Funchion (Carlow-Kilkenny, Sinn Fein)
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1452. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of extra funding allocated to an organisation (details supplied) to shorten the backlog of Garda vetting; when that extra funding was allocated; and the number of early years practitioners that have been cleared of their Garda vetting to date as a result of that extra funding. [20638/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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The Department of Children and Youth Affairs allocated extra funding of €9,650 to Barnardos to assist in clearing the Garda vetting backlog that had arisen owing to the introduction of e-vetting in April 2016. This extra funding enabled Barnardos to hire 1 extra full time staff member for 3 months from 7 December 2016 to 2 March 2017. At the conclusion of this period the backlog of 1,120 had been cleared.