921. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to which Workplace Relations Commission ruling she was referring when she stated in her contribution on Second Stage of the Au Pair Placement Bill 2016 that the proposal to exempt au pairs from employment law runs contrary to the ruling of the Workplace Relations Commission. [22830/16]
920. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to substantiate the claim made in her contribution on Second Stage of the Au Pair Placement Bill 2016 that 98% of au pairs are women aged in their 30s and half of these are from South America; and the research undertaken by Pobal and the Department of Justice and Equality to which she refers. [22829/16]
919. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way her Department estimated the annual running costs of the proposed au pair council to be €500,000, as she mentioned in her contribution on Second Stage of the Au Pair Placement Bill 2016; the source of the figure she mentioned that less than 1% of child care is undertaken by au pairs; and the total number of households using au pairs to which this equates. [22828/16]
807. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to outline the legislative framework regarding the ESB regulation of the River Shannon; his plans to amend that framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22375/16]
500. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Shannon river basin management co-ordination group has reported to the Cabinet committee on climate change; if the group has put forward any legislative and policy proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22377/16]
499. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total number of meetings held by the Shannon river basin management co-ordination group to date; the details and agencies of those who have attended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22376/16]
152. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of the 70 full time jobs announced for 2016 supported by the Heritage Council that will be allocated to the west to support the range of heritage programmes in County Galway. [21741/16]
147. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason Ability West, Galway County Association is not a member of the Public Sector Transfer Network despite giving financial recognition and increments for years of service (details supplied). [21742/16]
282. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Child Care (Amendment) Act 2015 will include in the implementation of the Act a specified age at which after-care planning will begin; and how far this will be in advance of the young person turning 18 years of age. [21395/16]
281. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department or a body under its aegis reviewed the additional costs arising from the provision in the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2015 giving legal entitlement to after-care services for all young persons leaving care prior to preparation of the Bill; the cost of extending the eligibility to a full legal entitlement to an after-care plan to young persons who have been taken into State care at 17 years of age but who have not been in care for 12 months or over. [21394/16]
280. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of the €38 million additional funding to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency in budget 2016 that is being allocated to cover the agency's new statutory functions of after-care planning under the Child Care (Amendment) Act 2015; if he will provide additional funding to the agency in budget 2017 to cover its new after-care planning function. [21393/16]
119. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Education and Skills the status of awarding a concessionary bus pass to a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21490/16]
836. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of private residential care companies contracted by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, to operate in the care system; and the number of children in this type of care. [21345/16]
835. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the standard payment that Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, pays private residential care companies for each child in their care weekly and annually; if payments are made to these providers on a per-child basis or a per-bed basis; and the average cost to Tusla of providing a care place in State-provided care and in a voluntary provided care setting. [21344/16]
834. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to provide a gender breakdown of children in State care and in foster care at present. [21343/16]
833. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to provide a list of all Bills which have passed Final Stage in the Houses of the Oireachtas but are yet to be commenced by her Department. [21342/16]
832. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she will issue a commencement order for the Child Care (Amendment) Act 2015. [21341/16]
830. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of capital funding allocated to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, in each of the years 2014, 2015 and 2016 to date in comparison to the capital spending outturn by the agency in these years. [21177/16]
829. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount her Department spent on aftercare for children not in foster care or in the direct care of the Health Service Executive in each of the years 2014, 2015 and 2016 to date; and the number of children in this regard. [21176/16]
828. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, spent on community programmes, by county, in each of the years 2014, 2015 and 2016 to date, including spending on family resource centres, school completion and area based childhood, ABC, programmes. [21175/16]
827. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of family resource centres that exist and are fully operational. [21174/16]
826. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of new places on the community child care subvention scheme which have been taken up by private providers as well as community providers since the announcement of the expansion to the scheme in budget 2016, by category. [21173/16]
825. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, provided to the Health Service Executive for the provision of child counselling services in each of the years 2014, 2015 and 2016 to date; her plans and proposals for the agency to take over the direct provision of child counselling services; and if she or the agency has examined providing child counselling services via family resource centres. [21150/16]
824. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, has informed all community programmes and community groups under its remit of its budget for 2016 and 2017; if she has signed off on this budget to these groups; and the groups whose funding from the agency has been reduced or discontinued for 2016 and 2017, in tabular form. [21149/16]
823. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she will implement the recommended action 75 of the Ryan implementation group for a professionally managed national archive to be developed as a central repository for the records for all children in care; and her views that there are barriers to the implementation of this recommendation. [21146/16]
740. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the legislation that governs the water level of the Shannon as controlled by the ESB; and if the ESB has discretion over the water level on the River Shannon between September and December, or if this is determined by legislation. [21134/16]
87. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health his Department's plans for addressing levels of childhood obesity; and the measures his Department is taking to promote better nutrition, healthy eating and increased levels of physical activity among children and young persons. [15261/16]
53. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health the reason for the substantial increase between December 2015 and May 2016 in the number of outpatients waiting more than a year for a consultation in University Hospital Galway. [20971/16]
690. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reasons for the proposed closure of a centre (details supplied); and if she or officials in her Department will agree to meet with the board of the centre to discuss the proposed closure. [19503/16]
687. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount paid by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, to all independent guardians ad litem, GAL, in 2015; and the amount which was paid to each individual to act as an independent GAL in the same year. [19157/16]
686. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the barriers to integrating information technology, IT, systems across social worker regional offices; if she is aware of the fact that there is no integration of referral systems across social service regions due to the lack of integration of IT systems and as a result, vital pieces of information that may be detailed regarding a prior case or individual in the files of one social work office are regularly not known by social worker offices in other regions dealing with the same case or individual; her views that this lack of integration is acceptable; and her plans to reform this unacceptable situation. [19155/16]
685. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs why the walk-in child sexual abuse service in County Galway is being shut down by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency; her views on whether this is the correct approach; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19154/16]
684. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, will publish its draft policy or strategy on adult disclosure cases, so-called section 3 referrals; and the current guidelines on dealing with adult disclosure cases by social worker offices. [19153/16]
683. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to provide estimates on the number and the percentage of referrals going through social work offices that are adult disclosure cases. [19152/16]
682. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to provide estimates on the number and percentage of current child protection and welfare cases that have not been allocated a social worker, who are adult disclosures or historical referral cases; to provide estimates for the average waiting time for an adult disclosure case to be allocated a social worker; and the number of these which are considered high-risk, medium-risk and low-risk cases. [19151/16]
424. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health if he is aware that Ireland has the lowest number of social workers undertaking postgraduate research among any developed country; his views on the fact that the current systems for social worker training as well as applied social work research represent best practice; his further views that there is scope to improve ongoing upskilling and on-the-job training of social workers; and if he will consider putting into place a fund to support the attainment of postgraduate qualifications and-or the undertaking of postgraduate research by social workers. [19156/16]
78. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has initiated an investigation or inquiry into corporate governance issues at a charity (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19057/16]
77. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality why Part 4 of the Charities Act 2009 has yet to be enacted; the statutory powers of investigation with respect to charitable organisations the Charities Regulatory Authority currently has; and if she will enact this part of the legislation in order to give the charities regulator powers to investigate complaints made against charities. [19056/16]
for the purposes of the better protection of rights of young people on cultural and education exchange programmes with no more than 30 hours light domestic help per week in exchange for hospitality, lodging and pocket money, to be known as 'Au Pair Placements'; to set up a new Au Pair Accreditation Council tasked with the protection of these rights and the oversight and registration of Au Pair Placements; to give the relevant Minister powers to make regulations defining the rights and responsibilities of those participating in Au Pair exchanges, accredited agencies and the Au Pair Accreditation Council
311. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the delay in filling two vacancies on the board of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency; and if she will ensure that board positions are filled immediately. [17782/16]
166. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to reintroduce the telephone allowance for old age pensioners which was reduced in 2014. [17678/16]
148. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if there is a legal obligation on all waste collection providers to furnish households with bins for black, brown and green waste collection; and the recourse households have if their provider refuses to provide one or more of these bins. [17835/16]
48. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda Síochána stations, and the number of gardaí in each, in County Galway on 30 April 2011 and on 30 April 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17089/16]
222. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in cancer patients receiving compression sleeves in County Galway. [16585/16]
131. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if Galway County Council has sufficient staff to work efficiently and to comply with health and safety regulations. [16392/16]
127. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Student Universal Support Ireland declined an application for a grant by a person (details supplied). [16584/16]
229. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in care without an allocated social worker; the reason for the high number; and the steps she is taking to address this, by age bracket and by county, in tabular form. [16368/16]
227. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children on the waiting list for a special care placement; the average waiting time for placements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16360/16]