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1. This Week in the Oireachtas (11-15 November 2013) 2 Oireachtas Monitor Published: 11 November 2013 Contents 1. This Week in the Houses of the Oireachtas 11-15 November 2013 2. Oireachtas Questions and Debate 04-08 November 2013 Children’s Rights Education: including special needs, ECCE, minorities, disadvantage, literacy and numeracy, school staffing, school buildings, school patronage, curriculum Asylum/Immigration Child Services/ Children in Care: including foster care and social work services, HSE staffing, youth services Child Abuse/Child Protection: including vetting, child abduction Family: including adoption Health and Wellbeing: including disability, mental health, substance misuse, primary care, health services, hospital services, obesity, sports facilities Child Benefit/Social Welfare/Poverty Justice Issues/Human Rights/Equality 1. This week in the Oireachtas (11-15 November 2013) http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=24678&&CatID=60 2. Oireachtas Questions and Debate (04-08 November 2013) Children’s Rights Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on Children's Rights (5 Nov 2013) Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour) To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the third and fourth State reports have been finalised and sent to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child; and, if not, when the reports will be finalised. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-11-05a.2469 Education: including special needs, ECCE, minorities, disadvantage, literacy and numeracy, school staffing, school buildings, school patronage, curriculum Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (5 Nov 2013) http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-11-05a.604 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Provision (5 Nov 2013) Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael) To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reconsider the decision to restrict the home tuition grant to tuition provided by teachers registered with the Teaching Council of Ireland, specifically where intervention is required for preschool children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-11-05a.627 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Availability (5 Nov 2013) Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to put all school bus routes online. Topical Issue Debate: School Inspection Reports (6 Nov 2013) http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2013-11-06a.452 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Information and Communications Technology Issues (5 Nov 2013) Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael) To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the work of extending the use of ITC into the classroom; and if his Department is engaging with the private sector in developing e-learning tools such as educational apps. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-11-05a.640 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Literacy Levels (5 Nov 2013) Brendan Ryan (Dublin North, Labour) To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any studies have been conducted by his Department on the reading habits of children under 12 years of age, outside of reading required for school; if he will provide the results of these studies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-11-05a.738 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (5 Nov 2013) Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour) To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the number of special needs assistants currently employed in primary schools across the State; and indicate if the cap on SNA appointments will be breached by the end of this year. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-11-05a.610 Asylum/Immigration Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (5 Nov 2013) Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael) To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in the context of the positive result in the children’s rights referendum, there will be a change in immigration policy to reflect the Zambrano case where the EU court held that the parent of an EU citizen child who is dependent on the parent must be allowed to stay in the EU. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-11-05a.1896 Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Missing Children (6 Nov 2013) Ciara Conway (Waterford, Labour) To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of minors that have been reported missing that were engaged in the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service process nationally in 2011, 2012; and to date in 2013; the number that were found and re- entered the system; the age profile and country of origin of each of these children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-11-06a.301 Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Missing Children (5 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 254 of 27 March 2013, when she will supply the requested figures of missing unaccompanied asylum seekers' minors. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-11-05a.2447 Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Reports (5 Nov 2013) Thomas Pringle (Donegal South West, Independent) To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the recently published report of the child care law reporting project in cases of children in direct provision; if he will consider allowing families in direct provision to live in the community in the interests of the children and families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2013-11-05a.53 Child Services/ Children in Care: including foster care and social work services, HSE staffing, youth services Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (5 Nov 2013) Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 26 September 2013, the number of young persons who left care on reaching their 18th birthday during 2012 or during the nearest 12 month reporting period; the number of such young persons who began aftercare programmes; the number of such young persons who did not begin aftercare programmes; the number of such young persons who began aftercare programmes who subsequently disengaged from them; if she will provide any other statistical information available on aftercare, to include breakdown by type of aftercare package, by geography, by educational or employment attainment, for example the number of young persons in aftercare currently pursing third level education; the annual spend on aftercare; the average cost of an aftercare package; and if she will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-11-05a.2495 Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (5 Nov 2013) Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour) To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide, in tabular form for the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013, the number of children in the care of the State; and if she will provide a breakdown of the care orders which underpinned the first placement of these children in care in each of those years, including voluntary care orders, emergency care orders, interim care orders and special care orders. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-11-05a.2513 Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (5 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of her Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-11-05a.2531 Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Social Work Staff (5 Nov 2013) Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 26 September 2013, the total number of social workers in the area of family support and child care services, or in relevant units, Departments or teams, however they may have been organised and named, for each of the years 2008 to 2012. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-11-05a.2489 Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (5 Nov 2013) Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there is any grant scheme available through her Department to assist youth clubs with ongoing running costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2013-11-05a.2507 Child Abuse/Child Protection: including vetting, child abduction Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Child Protection Services (7 Nov 2013) http://www.kildarestreet.com/sendebates/?id=2013-11-07a.304 Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Issues (7 Nov 2013) Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party) To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the fact that a number of concerns have been raised about the State funded groups which claim to represent institutional
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