# katherine-zappone - Friday 27 September, 2019
The average cost of full-time childcare in Ireland is €184 per week.
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# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 18 September, 2019
The Taoiseach says the Data Commissioner has declined to meet with Minister Doherty.
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# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 11 September, 2019
Dr Geoffrey Shannon’s Report on the Collection of Tuam Survivors’ DNA has been published today.
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# katherine-zappone - Thursday 29 August, 2019
The new plan hopes to see thousands of childminders registered with Tusla.
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# katherine-zappone - Thursday 1 August, 2019
The figure was revealed at an Oireachtas committee hearing yesterday morning.
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# katherine-zappone - Thursday 25 July, 2019
Children were filmed being roughly handled in the footage recorded by RTÉ Investigates, and concerns were raised about fire safety and other issues.
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# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 10 July, 2019
Should it be compulsory for young people to volunteer for a year? There are pros and cons.
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# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 12 June, 2019
The assembly will begin its work in October this year.
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# katherine-zappone - Monday 10 June, 2019
Funding will be made available to childcare centres, crèches and other childcare facilities.
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# katherine-zappone - Tuesday 21 May, 2019
Minister Katherine Zappone said it comes on the back of ‘decades of neglect’ in the area.
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# katherine-zappone - Friday 3 May, 2019
Bon Secours Sisters say a €2.5 million donation towards excavation and memorial will be their only contribution to the state.
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# katherine-zappone - Friday 26 April, 2019
The total amount of funding for 2019 has increased to €23.8 million.
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# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 17 April, 2019
The commission said the affidavit from the congregation that ran the mother and baby home was “speculative, inaccurate and misleading”.
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# katherine-zappone - Tuesday 16 April, 2019
But the forum of former residents of these institutions that made recommendations are frustrated the government won’t publish its full report.
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# katherine-zappone - Tuesday 26 March, 2019
That’s according to a confidential letter to a government minister.
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# katherine-zappone - Saturday 16 March, 2019
The report has been submitted to Minister for Children Katherine Zappone.
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# katherine-zappone - Monday 11 March, 2019
Lisa Smith is reportedly being detained by the US armed forces based in northern Syria.
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# katherine-zappone - Friday 1 March, 2019
Child safety expert Ian Elliott said that the organisation is “as safe as it can be and getting safer” – Tusla disagrees.
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# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 27 February, 2019
Tusla says an ‘immediate review’ of the current standards around the supervision of children should be undertaken.
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# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 13 February, 2019
The first excavations at the site of the former Tuam mother and baby home was expected to start in the latter half of 2019.
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# katherine-zappone - Thursday 7 February, 2019
Pressure has been mounting on government all week about who knew what when about the hospital costs.
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# katherine-zappone - Tuesday 22 January, 2019
The Commission of Investigation will not be issuing its final report this year.
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# katherine-zappone - Saturday 12 January, 2019
The HSE told Tusla it hadn’t received any direction on this, despite the Department of Children believing it to be the case.
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# katherine-zappone - Thursday 10 January, 2019
Arc Adoption was licenced to facilitate intercountry adoptions from 2011-2014.
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# katherine-zappone - Tuesday 11 December, 2018
Minister Katherine Zappone said it’s likely the numbers could increase again.
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# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 28 November, 2018
71 alleged abusers and 108 alleged victims were identified by the organisation last week following a historic review.
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# katherine-zappone - Monday 26 November, 2018
The man was arrested this morning in Co Cork by Gardaí and released this evening.
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# katherine-zappone - Friday 23 November, 2018
It comes after Minister Katherine Zappone revealed the findings earlier this week.
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# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 21 November, 2018
Most cases dated between the 1960s and 1980s, Minister for Children Katherine Zappone said.
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# katherine-zappone - Friday 2 November, 2018
An email released under the Freedom of Information Act shows how Zappone had ‘very serious’ concerns ahead of the visit.
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# katherine-zappone - Thursday 1 November, 2018
Minister Katherine Zappone will deliver a keynote speech at the event which is exploring adoption and institutional abuses.
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# katherine-zappone - Tuesday 30 October, 2018
The pilot programme will run in Galway in the new year.
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# katherine-zappone - Wednesday 24 October, 2018
The religious order has pledged €2.5 million towards the works which will cost between €6-€13m.
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# katherine-zappone - Tuesday 23 October, 2018
The Government has been offered €2.5 million by the Bon Secours Sisters, who ran the home, towards the excavation.
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# katherine-zappone - Sunday 7 October, 2018
Minister for Children Katherine Zappone said last month that Scouting Ireland funding was to be suspended.
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# katherine-zappone - Friday 28 September, 2018
The group has said there is an appetite for change to its practices.
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# katherine-zappone - Thursday 27 September, 2018
Funding will be suspended as long as the current Board of Directors remains in place.
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# katherine-zappone - Monday 27 August, 2018
After meeting Minister Zappone the Pope referenced the encounter in a speech.
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# katherine-zappone - Friday 27 July, 2018
A division has emerged around the Cabinet table between Fine Gael members and independent ministers.
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# katherine-zappone - Thursday 26 July, 2018
How to memorialise the past, as well as what health and well-being supports are needed for former residents will be discussed.
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