Showing results 1 - 10 of 15 for the category: Child welfare.
2 News: Progress on new children’s agency
The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs reported to the Dail on her progress in establishing the new children’s agency (Dail Eireann, Debates, 15th December 2011, 401-3, 407-8). The task force to advise the department had now met eight times…
Lottery grant for children’s organizations
The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald, told Denis Naughten (FG, Roscommon/Leitrim S) that 79 organizations had applied to her department for its lottery fund in 2011, the value of the applications being €2.4m (Dail Eireann, Debates, 29th…
Future of the Family Support Agency, new children’s agency
The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald, told Caoimhghin O Caolain (SF, Cavan Monaghan) that no decisions had been made as to the future of the family resource centre programme, but she assured him that the Family Support…
Children in prison
Ivana Bacik (Lab, Dublin University) raised the continued detention of children in St Patrick’s Institution (Seanad Eireann, Debates, 6th October 2011, 662-4). It was a medium security building dated to 1850 and the government had given a commitment to close…
Tax and Social Welfare Commission, appointments to Family Support Agency, task force for new children’s agency
The Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton, gave details to Caoimhghin O Caolain (SF, Cavan Monaghan), of the members and work of the new Tax and Social Welfare Advisory Group (Dail Eireann, Debates, 11th October 2011, 278-9). The group was…
Constitutional amendment, reforms for children
Task force for new child protection agency begins work The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald, told Caoimhghin O Caolain (SF, Cavan-Monaghan) that she hoped to submit a text for a constitutional amendment to strengthen the rights of…
Child contact centres
Asked about the One Family report The need for child contact centres in Ireland, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald told Simon Harris (FG, Wicklow) that preparations for a pilot project, to be operated by Barnardos, were…
Strategies for carers, children
John Perry, Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, speaking on behalf of the Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton, told Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (FG, Laois – Offaly) that the Programme for Government contained a commitment…
Housing, homelessness policies of the new government
The minister of state with responsibility for housing and planning, Willie Penrose, announced the intentions of his new department during the debate on the programme for government (Dail Eireann, Debates, 15th March 2011, 123-4). Delivering social housing was a priority…
Children in the constitution
The Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Barry Andrews, told the Dail that new wording for a constitutional amendment to protect children was being drafted in the Attorney General’s office and it was hoped that a…
