Richard Boyd Barrett

People Before Profit-Solidarity · Dún Laoghaire

Activity on Children and Youth Affairs — 107 events (13 lobbying · 94 questions · 0 votes) full profile →

• 2026-01-21
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  Dublin Chamber of Commerce Children and Youth Affairs

  • Chamber Budget Day correspondence
• 2026-01-20
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  Community Creations Limited t/a SpunOut.ie Children and Youth Affairs

  • Invitation to spunout 20th anniversary event and launch of insights report Loneliness: What Ireland’s Young People Are Telling Us
• 2025-09-10
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  CyberSafeIreland Children and Youth Affairs

  • Children's online safety
• 2025-05-21
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  National Women's Council of Ireland Children and Youth Affairs

  • Advancing a public system of early childhood education and care and support of the Together for Public Campaign Alliance
• 2025-05-19
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  CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED Children and Youth Affairs

  • Advocacy on Children's Rights Alliance Report Card 2025.
• 2025-05-07
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  Crosscare Children and Youth Affairs

  • Crosscare's Youth Information Service wrote to a wide range of TDs on 17th of April 2025 seeking support for the continued work of the 'Youth Information Online Chat Service' - an initiative of Crosscare, YMCA Cork, Youth Work Ireland and Spunout offering information, advice and guidance to young people through an online chat programme.
• 2025-01-20
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  Society of St. Vincent de Paul Children and Youth Affairs

  • A letter sent as part of a coalition of 30 organisations calling for a public model of early education and care.
• 2025-01-20
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  National Youth Council of Ireland 2 returns Children and Youth Affairs

  • Pre Budget Submission 2025
  • Pre Budget Submission 2025
• 2025-01-16
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  BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd. Children and Youth Affairs

  • The CEO of Belong To emailed TDs to congratulate them on their election and to highlight the importance of including priority LGBTQ+ issues in the Programme for Government.
• 2025-01-16
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  Early Childhood Ireland 2 returns Children and Youth Affairs

  • Budget 2025
  • Programme for Government
• 2025-01-15
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  Coeliac Society Of Ireland Children and Youth Affairs

  • Hot School Meals Programme
• 2025-01-09
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  CyberSafeIreland Children and Youth Affairs

  • Children's online safety
• 2024-12-19
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  European Network Against Racism (ENAR) Ireland CLG Children and Youth Affairs

  • Supporting NWC Public System of Early Childhood Education Campaign
• 2021-09-29
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with children and youth affairs will next meet. [45088/21]
• 2021-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with children and youth affairs will next meet. [1328/21]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if certainty will be provided for parents and crèche owners by reactivating the CCS in view of the fact that crèches cannot plan adequately (details supplied) and are due to open on 29 June 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11554/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for the future of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence units nationwide; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11557/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a progress report will be provided on employing the promised domestic abuse worker in Tusla in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11558/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress of the domestic violence accommodation review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11559/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number and name of women's refuges nationwide; the funding models for running the refuges; the up-front costs for sourcing the buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11560/20]
• 2020-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for reopening childcare facilities under the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business; and the way in which this will be managed safely. [7712/20]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to address the lack of crèche spaces and the unaffordability of the spaces nationwide and in south County Dublin in particular; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51543/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department will work with organisations (details supplied), Tusla, the local authority and other State agencies to ensure that the supervised playground on Library Road, Dún Laoghaire remains supervised into the future; the steps she can take in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51544/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which she plans to ensure the national childcare scheme will benefit parents in view of the fact there is no onus on childcare providers to take part in the scheme and the introduction of a ratio of carers to school-age children is set to increase the cost of running the facility, which will be passed on to the parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51545/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will extend the deadline and provide technical support to crèche owners in view of the short timeframe and the technical problems for the owners to submit required documentation to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51547/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childcare providers found in breach of regulation by Tusla as a result of the new regulations on standardised quality of care for school-age children and as a result have had to reduce their places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51093/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the participation of private childcare providers in the national childcare scheme; the breakdown of places available under the scheme for pre-ECCE, ECCE and school-age children across the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51094/19]
• 2019-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will examine the case of a crèche (details supplied) and extend the deadline for displacement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45774/19]
• 2019-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will work with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to ensure the continuation of the supervised playground on Library Road, Dún Laoghaire, including a replacement for an organisation (details supplied) to manage the service and or alternative sources of funding if necessary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43279/19]
• 2019-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if funds will be made available to a service (details supplied) to ensure that it can continue to provide its services to the families in need in the Dún Laoghaire area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43280/19]
• 2019-10-15
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a service (details supplied) is to be shut down on 11 October 2019 at the request of Tusla; the reason for same; the steps she can take to ensure the restoration of an after-school service for the parents and children affected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42133/19]
• 2019-09-24
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will work with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and other relevant agencies to ensure that a supervised playground (details supplied) remains a supervised service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38764/19]
• 2019-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if consideration will be given to becoming involved and funding the supervised playground at Library Road, Dún Laoghaire (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30023/19]
• 2019-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the community projects supported by her Department; the reason for the projects receiving funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30024/19]
• 2019-05-28
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to deal with the accelerating crisis in relation to childcare places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22690/19]
• 2019-05-28
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of future investment in youth supports and infrastructure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22691/19]
• 2019-03-28
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the delay to the affordable childcare scheme announced in October 2016; her plans to ensure the availability of childcare in all local communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14498/19]
• 2019-03-28
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some parents that are availing of the ECCE scheme are being charged for a fourth hour even if they are not using the facility for a fourth hour in view of the fact the facility is open for four hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14497/19]
• 2019-03-13
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the discussions he has had with the Ministers for Children and Youth Affairs and Education and Skills with regard to the increasing length of time children are waiting for assessments of needs and access to early intervention in the case of disability; if consideration has been given to a strategy across all three Departments that will see disabled and vulnerable children receiving the intervention, supports and resources they need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6987/19]
• 2019-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the preschool options available to a family with a child that will be two years and seven months in September 2019, missing the ECCE first year by one month and that cannot afford to pay privately for the service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10409/19]
• 2019-02-13
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there are no assurances of the necessary funding which makes it likely that a service (details supplied) will have to close by April 2019 with the loss of six jobs and numerous clients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7149/19]
• 2019-02-13
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the extension of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes; if this will be the final extension to the investigation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6984/19]
• 2019-02-13
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the affordable childcare schemes available to low and middle-income families; the status of the new affordable childcare scheme that was first announced in 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6985/19]
• 2019-02-13
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the necessary funding will be secured to ensure that vulnerable families are not left without a service (details supplied) in view of the prospect of the closure of the service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6983/19]
• 2019-02-13
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to a new campaign (details supplied) by an organisation and its five key demands relating to food poverty, health, exclusion, education and housing; the way in which she plans to respond to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6986/19]
• 2019-01-22
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a women’s refuge (details supplied) in Dublin 6 has reopened as a women’s refuge; if not, the reason therefore; the reason the refuge centre is no longer accepting donations of clothes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2378/19]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to a petition organised by an organisation (details supplied); her plans to deal with the concerns of those affected by the illegal adoptions that took place here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54092/18]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has employed an independent medical person to review medical files from mother and baby homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1522/19]
• 2018-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the necessary funds will be made available to an organisation (details supplied) in order that it can continue to offer both the residential care and the early intervention family support service to families and vulnerable children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46128/18]
• 2018-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will meet with key stakeholders of an organisation (details supplied) with a view to ensuring that it can continue to offer the full range of crucial support services to vulnerable children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45827/18]
• 2018-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will make the necessary funds available to an organisation (details supplied) in order that it can continue to offer the full range of crucial support services to vulnerable children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45826/18]
• 2018-09-07
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual cost of the various childcare programmes across her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36598/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount paid for consultancy services in each of the years 2012 to 2017; the details of these payments; the companies that received the payments; the amount received by each company; the hourly rates that applied to each company; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35378/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount paid for external legal services in each of the years 2012 to 2017; the details of these payments; the companies that received the payments; the amount received by each company; the hourly rates that applied to each company; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35392/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the mechanisms that will be put in place or that are already in place to assist a person who was illegally adopted via St. Patrick's, Navan Road, to trace their birth family; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30385/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps a person can take in circumstances (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30432/18]
• 2018-05-01
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to a recent article and documentary detailing the alleged mishandling of disclosures of serious abuse at a service (details supplied); the measures being taken by her Department in relation to staff and board members for allegedly misleading investigators and victims; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18894/18]
• 2018-05-01
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department has had engagement with a service (details supplied) in view of alleged mishandling of disclosures of abuse detailed in a recent article and documentary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18895/18]
• 2018-05-01
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if children born in mother and baby homes will be eligible for redress to address the psychological impact of having been separated from their birth mothers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18590/18]
• 2018-04-17
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the length of time the women's refuge in Rathmines has been closed; when it is planned to reopen; her plans to open additional refuges in the Dublin region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16389/18]
• 2017-12-14
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her long-term plans with regard to the ECCE scheme; if a decision on the over age exemption from the early childhood care and education scheme will be reversed and not just paused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53625/17]
• 2017-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the public contracts between her Department and companies (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2016; the value of each contract; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50395/17]
• 2017-11-21
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which a court order relating to psychological assessments will be carried out in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49057/17]
• 2017-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 516 of 17 October 2017 and 183 of 27 September 2017, when a formal response will be issued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45772/17]
• 2017-10-17
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the affordable child care scheme; the current and projected funding; the take-up across the country; the level of subsidies being given; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43792/17]
• 2017-10-17
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the uptake of the affordable childcare scheme rolled out in September 2017, by area and cost of subsidies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43797/17]
• 2017-10-17
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the €35 million allocated to her Department for childcare schemes in budget 2017; the schemes it funded; if she will provide a breakdown of funding for the different schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43798/17]
• 2017-10-17
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 27 September 2017, if further information has been received by Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43832/17]
• 2017-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the objectives of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes; the actions that will be taken as a result of the commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42604/17]
• 2017-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the location of the records for St. Patrick's mother and baby home, Navan Road, of births, deaths, procedural matters, State involvement and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42605/17]
• 2017-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the location of the burial of the babies who died at St. Patrick's mother and baby home, Navan Road; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42606/17]
• 2017-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the location of a burial ground for an institution (details supplied); and if there are records of those that died while resident in that institution. [41270/17]
• 2017-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will investigate with Tusla the steps taken regarding a report in 2016 of mental, physical and sexual abuse by other service users and staff circa 2010 to 2012 at a charity made by a person (details supplied); and if she will further investigate the complaints of the person that reports were not taken seriously or investigated adequately by the charity or Tusla. [40836/17]
• 2017-09-21
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will investigate with Tusla the steps that were taken on a report in 2016 of mental, physical and sexual abuse by a person (details supplied) and other service users and staff in each of the years 2010 to 2012 at a charity; and if she will further investigate the claim that the further complaints of the person that complaints were not taken seriously or investigated adequately by the charity or Tusla. [40066/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount that was spent in 2015 and 2016 and the projected spend for 2017 on subsidies to private operators of child care. [36367/17]
• 2017-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which parents will be able to access the subsidies offered under the affordable childcare scheme in September 2017 in view of the fact that there is no onus on childcare providers to offer the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31177/17]
• 2017-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which she envisages the affordable childcare scheme being rolled out in September 2017; the guarantees there are that childcare providers will take up the scheme in order to ensure access to it to all parents that are eligible for subsidies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31176/17]
• 2017-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the single affordable child care scheme will be ready in September 2017 as promised; if not, the way in which parents will manage child care placements for the school year if they do not know the cost of their child care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25849/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the advice which can be provided to a person (details supplied) to access records; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19268/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the proposed scope of the mother and baby home investigation; the other sites that will be investigated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19269/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the advice which can be provided to a person (details supplied) to access information; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19276/17]
• 2017-03-28
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there has been a full report or if she is planning to commission a report into allegations of abuse and neglect at a home (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15219/17]
• 2017-03-28
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to make recommendations to Cabinet with regard to a review of the congregational indemnity agreement, in view of the revelations concerning the mother and baby home in Tuam; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15220/17]
• 2017-03-28
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 1312 of 21 March 2017, if she will forward the request for information regarding seven suspensions of staff at Tusla to Tusla for answer or if she will request the information from the agency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15284/17]
• 2017-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 463 of 23 February 2017, if she will provide details with regard to the seven members of staff currently suspended in Tusla, in tabular form (details supplied). [14061/17]
• 2017-02-23
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of employees in her Department and under its aegis who are suspended from work without prejudice and on full pay pending an investigation. [9715/17]
• 2017-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will grant adopted persons unfettered access to their birth certificates and adoption records. [9156/17]
• 2017-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will remove the proposed undertaking in section 41 of the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016. [9157/17]
• 2017-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the compelling reasons ground for refusing the release of information in the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 only applies when adopted persons are seeking information. [9158/17]
• 2017-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way the release of information to an adopted person might endanger the life of a person. [9159/17]
• 2017-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that the national adoption contact preference register is put on a statutory footing in the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016. [9160/17]
• 2017-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that information sources holding records pertaining to illegal adoptions, particularly instances in which no adoption order exists, will be compelled under the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 to transfer their records to the Adoption Authority of Ireland. [9161/17]
• 2017-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the plans in place to reach out to the more than 2,000 people who were sent from Ireland to America for adoption from the 1940s to the 1970s. [9162/17]
• 2017-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will reinstate the stakeholder adoption advisory groups established by her predecessor (details supplied). [9163/17]
• 2016-12-14
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if persons availing of CET childcare, in particular new entrants onto the scheme, will not pay any extra for childcare in 2017 and in 2018 than they did in 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40174/16]
• 2016-12-14
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on any and all discussions with the Department of Social Protection as to the way in which to reduce child poverty in line the better outcomes brighter futures framework; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40175/16]
• 2016-11-08
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a breakdown of all new funds allocated to early child care for 2017 and the way in which this money will be allocated; the Estimates for budget 2018 to maintain the services for 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33334/16]
• 2016-11-08
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures she will put in place to support parents who make arrangements to have their children cared for by private child minders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33335/16]
• 2016-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the projected annual cost of providing free universal access to child care for all children from birth. [27511/16]
• 2016-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the projected cost in 2017 of eliminating the waiting lists for child social workers and providing a dedicated social worker to every child in State care. [27512/16]
• 2016-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of providing a third free early childhood care year. [27513/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to request Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, to establish a task force to process retrospective cases so that persons seeking information about ancestors in care will have a specific point of contact. [11270/16]
• 2016-01-28
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to report on the United Nations committee hearings on Ireland's record on children's rights and the new measures he is planning following the hearings, in particular in relation to children in direct provision and children in emergency homeless accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3201/16]
• 2016-01-28
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there are child protection issues for homeless children and children living in emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3200/16]
• 2015-12-02
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he has had discussions with the Department of the Taoiseach or with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade regarding the welfare of a person (details supplied) who is currently imprisoned without trial in Egypt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42680/15]
• 2015-12-02
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he has had met with youth groups such as Future Voices Ireland, Soar Foundation, Youth Work Ireland, SpunOut.ie, Young Social Innovators and the Union of Students in Ireland regarding the welfare of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42681/15]
• 2015-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps that have been taken to investigate recent reports of inappropriate seclusion of children in the residential care facility in Ballydowd in County Dublin; his plans for safeguards to prevent inappropriate seclusion, physical and chemical restraint in the future in all residences for children. [34657/15]