Parliamentary questions

Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children

Eamon Ryan

71. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the integration and mental health services being made available for refugee children upon entering Ireland; the number of child refugees that her Department is anticipating in 2017; and the capacity that her Department has for the provision of such services. [7043/17]

Child Care Services

Robert Troy

72. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the supports that have been put in place towards the re-opening of a centre (details supplied) in County Longford. [7050/17]

Family Resource Centres

Anne Rabbitte

73. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether family resource centres are provided with adequate funding and supports to carry out their responsibilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6755/17]

Youth Services Funding

Eugene Murphy

74. Deputy Eugene Murphy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason funding has been withdrawn from an organisation (details supplied) in respect of a number of youth projects, namely Roscommon town, Castlerea, Arigna and Ballaghaderreen in County Roscommon and also Castleblakeney in County Galway; the reasons for the closure of each of the specific projects in each location; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6715/17]

Child Care Services

Kathleen Funchion

75. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether the child care settings will be equipped to cope with the roll out of the single affordable child care scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7090/17]

Commencement of Legislation

Jan O'Sullivan

76. Deputy Jan O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress which has been made in the commencement of the outstanding sections of the Children First Act 2015, particularly in relation to mandatory reporting of child abuse and child safeguarding statements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7015/17]

Election Management System

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

77. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on lowering the voting age to 16 years of age in local, general and European elections. [7088/17]

Youth Services Expenditure

Niamh Smyth

78. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a commitment will be made to the value for money scheme post-2017; if more resources and funding will be allocated to this initiative which is running successfully in County Cavan; her plans to extend the value for money scheme to other counties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6940/17]

Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children

Mick Wallace

79. Deputy Mick Wallace asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the resources, existing or additional, that have been allocated to Tusla to facilitate the arrival and integration of unaccompanied child refugees from the former Calais camp; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7040/17]

Child Poverty

Gino Kenny

80. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will urgently establish an interdepartmental task force to address the escalating national crisis of child poverty in view of the fact that according to the most recent SILC report 2015 a child is now more than four times more likely to live in poverty based on their family status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7026/17]

Departmental Expenditure

Seán Sherlock

81. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Taoiseach the level of expenditure by his Department or any organisations under the aegis of his Department for each of the years from 2005 to 2016, in tabular form, on photography, advertising, communications advice, public relations, website development, interview training and preparation, including details of the events, campaigns or policies to which this expenditure related, and the company or individual to whom such payments were made. [6649/17]

Job Creation Data

Bernard Durkan

82. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Taoiseach the total number of jobs created here in the past five and a half years. [6640/17]

Ministerial Staff

Peter Burke

83. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Taoiseach if each of the Ministers of State in his Department has appointed a programme manager and policy adviser; the date for each such appointment; and the remuneration and expenses allowance respectively for each. [6860/17]

Census of Population Data

Éamon Ó Cuív

84. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Taoiseach the total current de facto official population, both residential adult and child inhabitants, in the city of Galway as of 31 December 2016; and the projected population of Galway city for each of the years 2020, 2030, 2040 and 2050. [6870/17]

Cyber Security Policy

Noel Rock

85. Deputy Noel Rock asked the Taoiseach the actions his Department is taking to strengthen against cyber attacks after the NTMA website was temporarily down for several hours after a suspected hacking attack. [6888/17]

Data Protection

Clare Daly

86. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will make concerns regarding the potential effect of President Trump's executive order (details supplied) on the privacy of Irish and EU citizens' data known to the US Administration; the steps she will take to ensure that the data privacy of Irish persons is protected notwithstanding the order; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6720/17]

Internet Safety

Bernard Durkan

87. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the ongoing efforts by her Department to counteract internet bullying in respect of children and young adults outside of an educational environment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7443/17]

Garda Reports

Clare Daly

88. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 101 of 24 January 2017, if, as part of the report she has requested from the Garda Commissioner, she has a review of whether any person was convicted of any crime here on the basis of evidence provided by a member of the UK's special demonstrations squad. [6687/17]

Garda Reports

Clare Daly

89. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 101 of 24 January 2017, if, as part of the report she has requested from the Garda Commissioner, she has ordered a review of all operations of members of the UK's special demonstrations squad here since the squad was formed in 1968. [6688/17]

Garda Recruitment

Paul Kehoe

90. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are any exceptions to the upper age limit for a person wanting to apply to An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6690/17]