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Tue, 2 May 2017
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Education Welfare Service
Thomas Byrne
1432. Deputy Thomas Byrne asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the budget allocation to educational welfare services in her Department in each of the years 2012 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and the detail of the budget by constituent programme, such as school completion and the home school community liaison scheme. [19522/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Child Protection
Michael Healy-Rae
1433. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address the allocation of social workers (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19656/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Child Care Services Provision
Noel Rock
1434. Deputy Noel Rock asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason her Department cannot access income information from the Revenue Commissioners; the estimated number of families which will miss out on the child care subsidy as a consequence; when this will be ameliorated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19689/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Early Childhood Care and Education
Michael McGrath
1435. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address a matter (details supplied) in relation to the early childhood care and education, ECCE, eligibility of a person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19791/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Early Years Strategy Publication
Robert Troy
1436. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of discussions on a new workforce plan for the early years sector; and when a revised plan is expected to be issued. [19809/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Adoption Data
Thomas P. Broughan
1437. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children, by county, that have been placed in adoption in 1986, 1996, 2006 and 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19910/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Foster Care
Thomas P. Broughan
1438. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of foster families, by county, in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the number of children placed in foster care in each of these years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19911/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Children in Care
Thomas P. Broughan
1439. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of private and State residential care settings, by county, in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the number of children placed in residential care in each of these years indicating the numbers for private and State residential services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19912/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Children in Care
Thomas P. Broughan
1440. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of secure care placements, by county, indicating the number of private and State run placements in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19913/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Child and Family Agency Data
Joe Carey
1441. Deputy Joe Carey asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she envisages the records as presented by an organisation (details supplied) will be available in workable format to those persons that need them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19914/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Child and Family Agency Expenditure
John McGuinness
1442. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the efforts being made by a company (details supplied) which is a service provider to Tusla to have its rates for its service increased; if it will be brought to a conclusion as soon as possible; the current status of negotiations; and the timeframe for a decision or resolution. [19943/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Child and Family Agency Data
Noel Rock
1443. Deputy Noel Rock asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the vast differences in child care orders between towns; if she will address the concern that children in care are subject to a geographic lottery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19981/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Children in Care
Noel Rock
1444. Deputy Noel Rock asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if transitional services exist for 18 year olds being phased out of State care; her views on whether they are effective in preventing homelessness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19985/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Job Vacancies
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
1445. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla has held interviews for the position of manager at the Cleary House supervised residential unit in Letterkenny, County Donegal, that has been closed since May 2016. [20065/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Adoption Services Provision
Alan Farrell
1446. Deputy Alan Farrell asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her position on the establishment of a programme for inter-country adoption with Haiti; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20071/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Child and Family Agency Data
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
1447. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of duty and intake workers under the employment of Tusla in County Donegal for each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [20118/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Child Care Services Expenditure
John McGuinness
1448. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the cost of the increase in the minimum wage from €9.15 per hour to €9.25 per hour and the cost of sleepovers on assignments from €9.15 per hour to €13.49 per hour will be fully implemented by her Department; if the difference in the costs will be passed on to companies providing specialised services under contract to her Department to enable those companies meet their obligations; if her Department is in negotiations with such service providers at present; if service providers have applied for an increase in rates to meet the rising costs of providing such care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20164/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Child Care Services
Thomas Pringle
1449. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the automated online system necessary for the full roll out of the targeted portion of the new affordable child care scheme will be ready early in 2018 as indicated previously in Dáil Éireann (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20167/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Child Care Services Data
Anne Rabbitte
1450. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department has developed a privacy impact assessment as part of the establishment of the eligibility assessment system for the universal and targeted child care subsidy; if so, if this has been submitted to the Data Protection Commissioner; and if so, the results of this assessment. [20181/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Child and Family Agency Funding
Thomas P. Broughan
1451. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the portion of the €37 million extra funding allocated to Tusla in 2017 which has been allocated to improving the emergency out-of-hours services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20564/17]