Written answers
Thursday, 3 December 2020
Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Early Childhood Care and Education
97. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress in meeting the ambitious but important target of doubling public investment in early learning and care and school-age childcare... - Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
99. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when he plans to publish a review of domestic violence accommodation provision. [40750/20] - Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
101. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the preparations his Department is making to enable provision of personal data to survivors of mother and baby homes in 2021; and if he... - Domestic Violence Services
102. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the supports offered to males by Tusla who are survivors of domestic violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40767/20] - Childcare Services
103. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the capital funding provided in 2020 towards the provision of new and upgraded childcare accommodation; the level of funding that will be... - Early Childhood Care and Education
104. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will report on the consultation events with early years’ service providers and practitioners which his Department undertook in... - Direct Provision System
107. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the use of approved housing bodies to deliver housing for international protection applicants. [40187/20] - Youth Services
108. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the actions he has taken to date to ensure the commented operation of Comhairle na nÓg in the context of Covid-19 restrictions. [40752/20] - Equality Issues
109. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress in examining the introduction of a new ground of discrimination, based on socioeconomic disadvantaged status to the Employment... - Direct Provision System
110. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to bring forward a white paper on the future of accommodation for persons in the international protection system; and if he will... - Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
112. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the report into the mother and baby homes is expected to published; the preparations being made for the report in terms of support for... - Food Poverty
114. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he has read the report by an organisation (details supplied) that 100,000 children in Ireland are going to bed hungry; and if he will... - Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
115. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which he has developed the necessary structures to reassure victims of mother and baby homes that their interests are fully... - Direct Provision System
116. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the guidelines with regard to in-person inspections in direct provision centres at every level of restriction under the Covid-19 framework;... - Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
117. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress made in the past month in relation to making information available from the evidence collected in the preparation of the... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
121. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the supports he is providing to childcare facilities to support them through the Covid-19 crisis; and if he will make a statement on the... - Child and Family Agency
122. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to facilitate the reorganisation of Tusla in view of comments made by the Tusla CEO to the Oireachtas Committee on Children... - Parental Leave
123. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress in providing a right to force majeure leave to workers in the context of the pandemic. [35096/20] - Direct Provision System
124. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the dates on which inspections have been carried out at a direct provision centre (details supplied) since 2016; and the outcomes of the... - Domestic Violence Services
125. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding allocated for 2021 to services providing domestic, sexual, and gender-based violence services. [40775/20] - Childcare Services
127. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childcare facilities that had to apply for planning permission due to Covid-19; the number of applications approved and... - Family Resource Centres
128. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of the expansion plan to increase the number of family resource centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40502/20] - Early Childhood Care and Education
129. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which he plans to support the early years sector in County Meath, particularly in relation to staff, pay and capitation grants... - Children in Care
130. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children formally taken into care to date in 2020, compared to 2019 in total; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - International Protection
131. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of vulnerability assessments carried out on persons in the international protection process for each of the years 2018, 2019 and... - Youth Services
132. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the supports his Department has put in place to ensure the sustainability of youth services in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the... - Direct Provision System
133. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps he is taking to take children out of the direct provision system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40439/20] - Asylum Seekers
135. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps he is taking to ensure that vulnerable refugees receive the necessary medical care if they experience psychological difficulties... - Child Protection
136. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which his Department has been alerted to increased numbers of children at risk during the Covid-19 restrictions; if he has... - Early Childhood Care and Education
137. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to provide for additional capital funding towards the development and expansion of community childcare centres. [40655/20] - National Childcare Scheme
141. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the take-up in the national childcare scheme; his plans to increase and enhance support to families in this area; and if he will make a...
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