675. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which Tusla is achieving comprehensive care planning, effective matching and adequate supports to maintain placements while children and young persons are in care. [30907/16]
664. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps her Department has taken to address an issue (details supplied) and alleviate this crisis. [30799/16]
663. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of voluntary child minders registered with Tusla per county; and the number of notified child minders registered per county, in tabular form. [30798/16]
659. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps in place to ensure young persons have access to specialist supports, services and access to suitable placements promptly; if there is a high level of staff expertise available in residential care to meet the complex needs of some young persons; when these care centres were last audited and by which agency for the 26 care units in tabular form. [30624/16]
658. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the supports available to vulnerable children who are not in education and do not receive aftercare supports. [30606/16]
656. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the person or body responsible for the placement of a young person with a disability who has been in State care when they turn 18 years of age; and the steps that are taken to ensure various service providers work together to ensure that the needs of the young person are met at this significant transition [30598/16]
655. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the provision of the aftercare for young persons is inconsistent across the country; and the reason there is an exclusion clause for young persons who are admitted to the care system at 17 years of age (details supplied). [30597/16]
654. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when sections 1 to 9, inclusive, of the Child Care Amendment Act 2015 will be commenced; and the reason there has been a delay in its commencement in view of the fact this legislation was enacted in December 2015 [30596/16]
536. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health when the policy and strategy will be developed in relation to the recommendations in the Children’s Mental Health Coalition Someone to Care report to develop a policy statement and national strategy to address the mental health needs of children and young persons in care and detention. [30912/16]
535. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health his plans to prioritise child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, for children in care; and the way in which he will achieve this [30911/16]
534. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health the amount of the health budget in budget 2017 that was set aside for persons with dementia; and the amount in 2016 (details supplied). [30906/16]
476. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health the supports in place for young women leaving State care, particular those with mild intellectual disabilities who are pregnant or with young children (details supplied); and the steps being taken to address this. [30605/16]
382. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health the staffing levels for specialist mental health services for particular high-risk groups of children who require urgent attention; the number of mental health and intellectual disability consultants for children currently in-post throughout the country (details supplied). [30904/16]
343. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason he indicated he plans to incentivise education, training and work experience when he has only increased the back to education allowance for the under 26s but not for the range of other education and training schemes (details supplied). [30917/16]
342. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Social Protection the rationale for widening the gap between the rates for other adult welfare recipients and young welfare recipients. [30916/16]
341. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Social Protection the savings achieved by the decision to restrict the increase for young persons on jobseeker's allowance to €2.70 for those on €100 and €3.80 for those on €144 a week instead of the €5 a week across the board. [30915/16]
260. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Education and Skills the action he will take to address the disparity in school costs which exists from school to school throughout the country and the inequality faced by parents in having to provide funding for a free primary education system, as costed by a charity (details supplied) at €103 million. [30626/16]
111. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health his views on the September 2016 figures from the National Treatment Purchase Fund which showed that in excess of 5,000 children are waiting more than a year for an outpatient appointment in the three children's hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30652/16]
54. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health his views on the September 2016 figures from the National Treatment Purchase Fund which showed that 1,805 persons are waiting more than 18 months for an outpatient appointment in Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30653/16]
8. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions in the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 relating to his Department which are yet to be commenced and implemented in full; the estimated cost of implementing the Act in full for his Department; and if he will provide a breakdown of the areas in which these costs would be incurred. [29984/16]
262. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of the €16 million provided in budget 2016 to create an additional 3,200 full-time equivalent community childcare subvention, CCS, and community childcare subvention private, CCSP, child care places that has been recouped from the Department or Pobal from providers to date in 2016; and the number of additional places this has lead to in both schemes. [27604/16]
261. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of parents in each individual band, that is A, AJ, B, availing of the community child care subvention programme reduced weekly fees for child care; and the number of parents receiving rates for full-time services, a part-time service, sessional service or a shorter hours service in each band. [27603/16]
260. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the rationale behind the restriction that parents cannot avail of the early childhood care and education scheme and a CCS fee reduction at the same time; and her views that this discriminates against low income parents who use the CCS scheme for full-time child care. [27600/16]
92. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Taoiseach if he will provide estimates for the number of children under five years of age with parents working more than 25 hours per week, whose primary form of child care is undertaken by a childminder or a relative and the number whose care is undertaken in a centre-based setting such as a creche. [27602/16]
91. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Taoiseach if he will provide estimates for the number of children under five years of age in households earning less than €47,000 gross income per annum; the number of these households headed by lone parents; and the number of these households that are working more than 25 hours per week. [27601/16]
87. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to increase the number of community gardaí in the Galway Garda division. [27419/16]
52. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda reservists in the Galway Garda division. [27420/16]
1934. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide estimates of the cost to the Exchequer to increase the subsidy or weekly fee reduction available to recipients of the community childcare subvention scheme and the community childcare subvention scheme private, by 10% for all bands and all rates; and the number of recipients in each scheme at each band and partaking of each rate, in tabular form. [25842/16]
899. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount allocated and drawn down in respect of the learner fund in 2016. [24227/16]
898. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of increasing the number of weeks covered under the early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme from 38 to 40 and 42, respectively, from September 2017 onwards. [24226/16]
881. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to provide figures on the percentage of working days lost to Tusla due to sickness absence through certified and uncertified leave in each year since its establishment. [23753/16]
503. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health to reassess a person (details supplied) under the fair deal scheme as the person's situation has changed. [23660/16]
183. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) has had its bus service completely cut for 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24306/16]
182. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) is ineligible for a concessionary bus pass to her school. [23674/16]
43. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to increase statutory maternity leave entitlement; if she will provide estimates of the cost of increasing maternity leave from 26 weeks to 30 weeks and from 26 weeks to 34 weeks; her views on whether these cost estimates take into account the effect of the cost impact of increased maternity leave on the public sector wage bill due to entitlements to full additional salary in the public sector. [23978/16]
40. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to address concerns over private residential care homes, specifically that many such homes provide less quality care to children in their care than voluntary and State care homes; the reason Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, relies so heavily on private residential homes rather than State-provided care homes. [23058/16]
33. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to address concerns over inadequate case management by social worker services of adult disclosure cases and the lack of an overarching strategy for dealing with adult disclosure cases by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. [23057/16]
30. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to address concerns that the planned expansion of the community childcare subvention scheme is not taking place due to the low level of subsidy given to private child care providers to take up the scheme. [23059/16]
14. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the inadequate central referral system used by social worker services and the absence of a central ICT system. [23056/16]
7. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to address concerns that Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, is providing inadequate levels of resources to family resource centres throughout the country and does not properly support their vital community role. [23060/16]
3. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to address concerns over inadequate case management by social worker services of adult disclosure cases and the lack of an overarching strategy for dealing with adult disclosure cases by Tusla. [23514/16]
1. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to discuss the inadequate central referral system used by social worker services and the absence of a central ICT system. [23513/16]
379. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health his views on whether the administration of medicines by medically untrained teachers and special needs assistants in primary schools is a potentially dangerous situation (details supplied). [23367/16]
378. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health his views on where Children First and health and safety legislation implies two adults must hoist, toilet, change and clean a child, as in any clinical setting, yet the National Council for Special Education reports that the Department of Education and Skills has no such ruling in place for school teachers or special needs assistants; the reason one adult and one child would be compromised in an educational and special needs setting (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23364/16]
377. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health his views on proposals that two special needs assistants, for example, can adequately tend to the acute care needs of six children simultaneously (details supplied). [23361/16]
376. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health the way special educational needs organisers who are neither medical nor educational professionals can adjudicate on the veracity or otherwise of such professionals' recommendations as to the needs of children (details supplied). [23358/16]
187. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the administration of medicines by medically untrained teachers and special needs assistants in primary schools is a potentially dangerous situation (details supplied). [23366/16]
186. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on where Children First and health and safety legislation implies two adults must hoist, toilet, change and clean a child, as in any clinical setting, yet, the National Council for Special Education reports his Department has no such ruling in place for school teachers or special needs assistants; the reason one adult and one child would be compromised in an educational and special needs setting (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23363/16]
185. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on proposals that two special needs assistants, for example, can adequately tend to the acute care needs of six children simultaneously (details supplied). [23360/16]
184. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Education and Skills the way special educational needs organisers who are neither medical nor educational professionals can adjudicate on the veracity or otherwise of such professionals' recommendations as to the needs of children (details supplied). [23357/16]