# katherine-zappone - Sunday 25 April, 2021
# Dept Of Children
# Dept Of Children
She lodged a complaint about the department’s ‘failure to comply with the assurances’ provided to her.
# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 17 June, 2020
# Migrants
# Migrants
The children will be received into the care of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency.
# katherine-zappone - Thursday 11 June, 2020
# Your Say
# Your Say
A proposal to merge the Department of Children with the Department of Education is being considered.
# katherine-zappone - Friday 29 May, 2020
# Childcare
# Childcare
These services will first be made available to children of essential workers and those experiencing poverty or welfare issues.
# katherine-zappone - Thursday 14 May, 2020
# Front Line
# Front Line
The government announced that a childcare scheme for healthcare workers had to be scrapped.
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
The scheme has been scrapped after just six providers had applied to take part.
# katherine-zappone - Thursday 7 May, 2020
# Childcare
# Childcare
45 hours a week of childcare in the home will be provided to certain workers from 18 May.
# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 6 May, 2020
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
Trade union Fórsa has requested more information on what the plan entails.
# katherine-zappone - Friday 24 April, 2020
# WELL-BEING
# WELL-BEING
Leo is missing the gym.
# katherine-zappone - Thursday 16 April, 2020
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
Wages of thousands of employees working in the childcare sector will be topped up to a maximum of €586 a week.
# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 25 March, 2020
# Emergency Measures
# Emergency Measures
The government is to pay a proportion of childcare staff costs during the closure period.
# katherine-zappone - Monday 24 February, 2020
# Race
# Race
An unpublished report has found that mixed-race children were routinely withheld for adoption and some children’s skin colour was listed as a “defect”.
# katherine-zappone - Sunday 15 December, 2019
# Safeguarding
# Safeguarding
Early drafts of a letter that caused a row between the agency and Scouting Ireland contained stronger criticism of the organisation than the final version.
# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 11 December, 2019
# No Consensus
# No Consensus
Minister Zappone said she was “personally deeply disappointed” that a consensus could not be reached on the issue.
# katherine-zappone - Friday 27 September, 2019
# Early Learning
# Early Learning
The average cost of full-time childcare in Ireland is €184 per week.
# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 18 September, 2019
# PSC
# PSC
The Taoiseach says the Data Commissioner has declined to meet with Minister Doherty.
# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 11 September, 2019
# Tuam
# Tuam
Dr Geoffrey Shannon’s Report on the Collection of Tuam Survivors’ DNA has been published today.
# katherine-zappone - Thursday 29 August, 2019
# Childminding
# Childminding
The new plan hopes to see thousands of childminders registered with Tusla.
# katherine-zappone - Thursday 1 August, 2019
# Creche Scandal
# Creche Scandal
The figure was revealed at an Oireachtas committee hearing yesterday morning.
# katherine-zappone - Thursday 25 July, 2019
# Hyde And Seek
# Hyde And Seek
Children were filmed being roughly handled in the footage recorded by RTÉ Investigates, and concerns were raised about fire safety and other issues.
# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 10 July, 2019
# Volunteering
# Volunteering
Should it be compulsory for young people to volunteer for a year? There are pros and cons.
# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 12 June, 2019
# Progress
# Progress
The assembly will begin its work in October this year.
# katherine-zappone - Monday 10 June, 2019
# Childcare
# Childcare
Funding will be made available to childcare centres, crèches and other childcare facilities.
# katherine-zappone - Tuesday 21 May, 2019
# Childcare
# Childcare
Minister Katherine Zappone said it comes on the back of ‘decades of neglect’ in the area.
# katherine-zappone - Friday 3 May, 2019
# Noteworthy
# Noteworthy
Bon Secours Sisters say a €2.5 million donation towards excavation and memorial will be their only contribution to the state.
# katherine-zappone - Friday 26 April, 2019
# Funding
# Funding
The total amount of funding for 2019 has increased to €23.8 million.
# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 17 April, 2019
# Mother-and-baby Homes
# Mother-and-baby Homes
The commission said the affidavit from the congregation that ran the mother and baby home was “speculative, inaccurate and misleading”.
# katherine-zappone - Tuesday 16 April, 2019
# Former Residents
# Former Residents
But the forum of former residents of these institutions that made recommendations are frustrated the government won’t publish its full report.
# katherine-zappone - Tuesday 26 March, 2019
# Confidential Letter
# Confidential Letter
That’s according to a confidential letter to a government minister.
# katherine-zappone - Saturday 16 March, 2019
# Tuam Mother And Baby Home
# Tuam Mother And Baby Home
The report has been submitted to Minister for Children Katherine Zappone .
# katherine-zappone - Monday 11 March, 2019
# Syria
# Syria
Lisa Smith is reportedly being detained by the US armed forces based in northern Syria.
# katherine-zappone - Friday 1 March, 2019
# Heating Up
# Heating Up
Child safety expert Ian Elliott said that the organisation is “as safe as it can be and getting safer” – Tusla disagrees.
# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 27 February, 2019
# Scouting Ireland
# Scouting Ireland
Tusla says an ‘immediate review’ of the current standards around the supervision of children should be undertaken.
# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 13 February, 2019
# Tuam
# Tuam
The first excavations at the site of the former Tuam mother and baby home was expected to start in the latter half of 2019.
# katherine-zappone - Thursday 7 February, 2019
# Nch
# Nch
Pressure has been mounting on government all week about who knew what when about the hospital costs.
# katherine-zappone - Tuesday 22 January, 2019
# Mother-and-baby Homes
# Mother-and-baby Homes
The Commission of Investigation will not be issuing its final report this year.
# katherine-zappone - Saturday 12 January, 2019
# St Patrick's Guild
# St Patrick's Guild
The HSE told Tusla it hadn’t received any direction on this, despite the Department of Children believing it to be the case.
# katherine-zappone - Thursday 10 January, 2019
# Arc Adoption
# Arc Adoption
Arc Adoption was licenced to facilitate intercountry adoptions from 2011-2014.
# katherine-zappone - Tuesday 11 December, 2018
# Historical Abuse
# Historical Abuse
Minister Katherine Zappone said it’s likely the numbers could increase again.
# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 28 November, 2018
# Scouting Ireland
# Scouting Ireland
71 alleged abusers and 108 alleged victims were identified by the organisation last week following a historic review.
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