Written answers

Tuesday, 10 December 2019

Department of Children and Youth Affairs

 
  • Childcare Services Provision
    62. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the alternative arrangements put in place for children attending crèches (details supplied) that face closure by the end of 2019; and...
  • Domestic Violence Services Provision
    63. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the appeals process arising from the decision made following the submission of expressions of interest by Galway city, county and the...
  • Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
    64. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to provide additional refuge places in line with the recommendations of the Council of Europe; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Child Protection Services Provision
    65. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she remains satisfied that adequate counselling, support and rescue services remain available through her Department to...
  • Childcare Services
    66. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which she plans to ensure the national childcare scheme will benefit parents in view of the fact there is no onus on childcare...
  • Departmental Budgets
    67. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason an unused amount of €60 million was returned to the Exchequer in 2018 as reported by the Office of the Comptroller and...
  • Childcare Services Data
    68. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of families and children signed up to the new national childcare scheme; the number of families and children that will remain on...
  • Legislative Process
    69. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019; the timeline for the progression of the Bill; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Child and Family Agency Data
    70. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures Tusla and its homeless liaison officer are taking to ensure the necessary supports are in place for homeless families with...
  • Childcare Services Provision
    71. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the support measures in place for parents in circumstances in which a crèche has been deregistered; and her views on the creation of...
  • Domestic Violence Services Funding
    72. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will meet an organisation (details supplied) in County Donegal; her views on whether Ireland is compliant with the Istanbul...
  • Childcare Services Provision
    73. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether the dismantling of targeted schemes that are being replaced by the new national childcare scheme will have a negative...
  • Childcare Services Regulation
    74. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will extend the deadline and provide technical support to crèche owners in view of the short timeframe and the technical...
  • Education Welfare Service
    75. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to provide alternatives to prosecution for parents who fail to ensure their children attend school; and if she will make a...
  • Education and Training Boards Funding
    76. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost and envisaged costs of the mid-level governance arrangements with education and training boards, ETBs, put in place by her...
  • Domestic Violence
    77. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when a report (details supplied) will be published; her views on each of the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report; and if...
  • Adoption Records Provision
    78. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to ensure adopted persons have a right to tracing information on their birth families and particularly birth parents; and if she...
  • Education Welfare Service Expenditure
    79. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost to her Department of prosecuting parents for the failure of children to attend school; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Children in Care
    80. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 59 of 22 October 2019 and her acknowledgement to correspondence of 5 November 2019, the progress made...
  • Childcare Services Provision
    81. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the uptake of the national childcare scheme to date in County Kildare; the way in which she can ensure further continued applications; and...
  • Fire Safety Regulations
    82. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the postponement of the introduction of new fire safety regulations for crèches; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Childcare Services Funding
    84. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if payments will be backdated to parents who applied for the national childcare scheme but whose applications have not been processed to...
  • Childcare Services Provision
    85. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of uptake of supports for providers of the affordable childcare scheme in County Cork; the efforts being made to promote the...
  • Family Support Services
    86. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she will take to fill the gap in provision of family services left by the recently announced closure of a service (details...

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