Written answers

Monday, 11 September 2017

Department of Children and Youth Affairs

 
  • School Completion Programme
    1633. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the most recent figure for the full-year funding allocated to the school completion programme for DEIS schools. [37694/17]
  • Departmental Funding
    1634. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding allocated to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2016, and to date in 2017; and if she will make a...
  • Departmental Staff Data
    1635. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of political staff employed in her Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants, special advisers,...
  • Family Resource Centres
    1636. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla plans to engage with a union (details supplied) regarding its representation of family resource centres to the WRC on the issue...
  • Youth Services Funding
    1638. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will reconsider the application for funding by an organisation (details supplied). [36974/17]
  • Family Resource Centres
    1639. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla will attend the Workplace Relations Commission talks with an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
  • Departmental Staff Data
    1640. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of women and men, respectively, employed in her Department in tabular form. [37067/17]
  • Family Resource Centres
    1642. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a workplace dispute; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37091/17]
  • Affordable Childcare Scheme
    1643. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to introduce a cap on crèche fees further to reports that crèches around the country are raising their fees as a...
  • Family Resource Centres
    1645. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to increase the funding made available to family resource centres through her Department's family resource centre programme; her...
  • Departmental Banking
    1646. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost her Department incurred in each of the past five years due to debit and credit card payment services and banking fees; the...
  • Affordable Childcare Scheme
    1647. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many child care providers have not signed up to provide the single affordable childcare...
  • Domestic Violence Services Funding
    1649. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding allocated to women's refuge accommodation in each of the past five years, and in 2017, in tabular form; and the...
  • Child Care Services
    1652. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that children are missing out on child care in view of the fact that they must be three years...
  • Child Care Services Regulation
    1653. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the purpose of the proposal to submit child care providers' audited accounts to her Department and Pobal agents; the reason a Government...
  • HIQA Reports
    1654. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to the recent inspection report by HIQA on the foster care service operated by Tusla in the Cork service area, if her attention...
  • Child Care Services
    1655. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to an organisation (details supplied); and if her attention has been further drawn to a proposal to set up...
  • Early Years Sector
    1657. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount allocated and drawn down in respect of the learner fund in 2016, and to date in 2017 in the Cavan and Monaghan and north Meath...
  • Child and Family Agency Expenditure
    1658. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount Tusla has spent on community programmes by county in each of the years 2014 to 2016, and to date in 2017; and the spending on...
  • Guardians Ad Litem
    1659. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount her Department has spent on guardian ad litem services broken down by county or provider. [37721/17]
  • Departmental Expenditure
    1660. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the investment by her Department since March 2016 in counties Cavan, Monaghan and Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Information and Communications Technology
    1661. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she has taken to upgrade the data collection systems in Tusla and in her Department. [37724/17]
  • Social Workers Recruitment
    1662. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the average time it takes to recruit social care workers in the Cavan, Monaghan and north Meath areas in 2016, and to date in 2017. [37725/17]
  • Affordable Childcare Scheme Implementation
    1663. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of the advertising campaign for the affordable childcare scheme. [37761/17]
  • Community Childcare Subvention Programme
    1665. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to crèches refusing to participate in the universal child care subsidy citing legal advice; the steps...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes
    1667. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when an AIM Level 7 will be approved for a child in a day care centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Brexit Issues
    1668. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there is a senior official with designated responsibility for Brexit matters in her Department; if so, the grade of the designated...
  • Construction Costs
    1670. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of construction inflation that has been experienced by her Department in the 18 months to September 2017 in respect of...
  • Public Services Card
    1671. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she or bodies and agencies under the remit of her Department plans to make services or payments dependant on the mandatory use and...
  • Family Resource Centres
    1672. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will review the funding provided through Tusla for family resource centres (details supplied); if she will make additional funding...
  • Child Care Services
    1674. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to provide further supports to parents that opt to stay at home from work to mind their children rather than placing their...
  • Child Protection
    1676. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the delay in the publication of the inquiry conducted by a person (details supplied) and concluded in July 2016 into child...
  • Child and Family Agency Expenditure
    1677. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount spent by Tulsa each year on consultancy fees; the persons or bodies to which payments were made; and if she will make a...
  • Data Protection
    1678. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she has taken to satisfy herself that data protection and privacy standards have been complied within the context of child abuse...
  • Departmental Staff Data
    1679. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual percentage of non-commercial State sponsored bodies staff under the remit of her Department that were women in each of the...
  • Family Resource Centres
    1681. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the allocation to family resource centres over each of the past ten years. [38401/17]
  • Early Years Sector
    1682. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will pay a capital grant to a provider (details supplied) to allow it to open a replacement preschool facility as soon as possible;...
  • Affordable Childcare Scheme Data
    1683. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding provided in her Department's estimates for 2017 for the affordable childcare scheme; the percentage of childcare providers...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    1695. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the expenditure savings that are earmarked for her Department for 2018 that are not accounted for in the mid-year expenditure report or...
  • Child Protection Services Provision
    1696. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of the 5,893 unallocated cases, 991 of which they deemed high priority, mentioned in the June 2017 Tusla activity report that...
  • Adoption Legislation
    1697. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to allow adopted persons access their personal files and information regarding their adoption and origins; when she plans to...
  • Child Abuse
    1698. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of section 3 adult retrospective reports of abuse cases that are currently unallocated; the year when first referred in view of...
  • Affordable Childcare Scheme Expenditure
    1699. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the promised assessment of the economic costing of child care services; and the timeframe for completion of this...

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