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# minister-for-children - Thursday 7 May, 2020
No insurance cover for childcare providers that take part in government scheme, warns broker
45 hours a week of childcare in the home will be provided to certain workers from 18 May.
# minister-for-children - Monday 10 June, 2019
Zappone announces funding for 3,600 new childcare places
Funding will be made available to childcare centres, crèches and other childcare facilities.
# minister-for-children - Tuesday 2 April, 2019
Our systems are not working to prevent child sexual violence, even after it is reported
Of all reported cases of child sexual violence only 2% end in a conviction. Children whose disclosures don’t result in a criminal conviction still need protection, writes Dr Clíona Saidléar.
# minister-for-children - Wednesday 21 June, 2017
'Ann Louise would be proud' - Zappone receives Seal of Office after death of her wife
Ann Louise Gilligan died last week following a short illness.
# minister-for-children - Friday 5 June, 2015
Here's why nutritional information on children's sweets is actually for adults
And it’s going to stay that way.
# minister-for-children - Wednesday 11 March, 2015
There's now THREE tobacco giants threatening to sue the government
Philip Morris is threatening legal action.
# minister-for-children - Thursday 13 November, 2014
"It's so important to get this inquiry right"
Minister James Reilly hopes to bring the terms of reference to Cabinet in the near future.
# minister-for-children - Wednesday 16 July, 2014
Exclusion of institutions from inquiry concerning to mother-and-baby groups
Groups representing mothers and their children question why some institutions may not be included.
# minister-for-children - Saturday 14 June, 2014
County homes ruled out of inquiry to prevent a "bottomless quagmire"
The Minister for Children said the investigation into mother-and-baby homes must have a time-limit and be cost-effective.
# minister-for-children - Monday 9 June, 2014
Tusla given "sensitive, personal" records from three mother-and-baby homes
The information relates to the Tuam home, Bessborough in Cork, and St Patrick’s on the Navan Road in Dublin.
# minister-for-children - Saturday 17 May, 2014
No complaints about the sexualisation of children's clothes since new rules introduced
Since June 2012, just three complaints have been received by Retail Ireland.
# minister-for-children - Thursday 8 May, 2014
New Children's Minister is 'eminently qualified' and 'vastly experienced' - but who is he?
He previously served as Fine Gael front bench spokesperson on Children and Justice.
# minister-for-children - Saturday 5 April, 2014
€3m childcare fund will leave 70% of providers 'out in the cold'
Early Childhood Ireland is proposing that a separate strand of funding is immediately ringfenced for private childcare providers.
# minister-for-children - Tuesday 25 February, 2014
Legislation published to place 'duty' on Child and Family Agency to provide aftercare
It follows a HSE report late last year that highlighted a number of incidents where young adults died after leaving statutory care.
# minister-for-children - Friday 20 December, 2013
19,044 referrals about child abuse concerns were received in 2012
Minister Frances Fitzgerald said figures for 2013 indicate will be similar to previous years.
# minister-for-children - Tuesday 17 December, 2013
Fitzgerald: We're still working towards second pre-school year
The Minister said that staff training needed to brought up to the required standards before the scheme could go ahead.
# minister-for-children - Thursday 24 October, 2013
HSE child services chief to meet with Garda Commissioner on Roma cases
Gordon Jeyes will head up the HSE report on the two cases in Tallaght and Athlone, with the findings of the review to be handed over to the Children’s Ombudsman.
# minister-for-children - Saturday 12 October, 2013
Construction to begin on new juvenile detention facility in Oberstown
Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald will turn sod on Monday at the site to mark the beginning of construction.
# minister-for-children - Wednesday 25 September, 2013
Tougher regulation of creches must be met with investment - Early Childhood Ireland
The Minister for Children today announced more stringent regulation of the creche sector, but a representative body for creches says that regulation without investment is meaningless.
# minister-for-children - Friday 20 September, 2013
In full: Life as a 3-year-old Growing Up In Ireland
The latest findings of the large-scale Growing Up In Ireland study are out today. As well as detailing the health and wellbeing of 11,000 Irish three-year-olds, they also show the huge effect of the recession on Irish families.
# minister-for-children - Tuesday 11 June, 2013
Minister to be quizzed on childcare concerns
Also attending the meeting will be the CEO of the Child and Family Support Agency and representatives from Early Childhood Ireland.
# minister-for-children - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
Children's Minister meeting with Russian officials over adoption agreement
Frances Fitzgerald said the discussions will allow her to explore the feasibility of an agreement on intercountry adoption.
# minister-for-children - Friday 5 October, 2012
VIDEO, PHOTOS: Eamon Gilmore's car egged by protesters in Dublin
One man was arrested when the car carrying Eamon Gilmore and Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald was forced to turn back after an Éirígí protest over cuts to child benefit.
# minister-for-children - Wednesday 19 September, 2012
Column: The children's referendum is a chance to put things right
By voting yes, we can prove that this generation has done more than any other to protect children who have been betrayed in the past, writes Aodhán Ó Riordáin.
# minister-for-children - Thursday 26 July, 2012
Fine Gael TD slams Fianna Fáil counterpart for committee no-show….
… but was he supposed to be there?
# minister-for-children - Thursday 5 July, 2012
The 9 at 9: Thursday
Nine things to know this morning…
# minister-for-children - Friday 27 April, 2012
Column: 'Free preschool has to be backed by strong political will'
Education and care go hand in hand, argues Irene Gunning, and the care of toddlers and preschoolers can’t be separated as two different processes.
# minister-for-children - Friday 9 March, 2012
TheJournal.ie’s progress report for the Government: Children
One year ago, the government created a separate Department of Children for the first time – but has it lived up to its promises?
# minister-for-children - Friday 10 February, 2012
Poll: Should same-sex couples be allowed to adopt?
The government has said this week that it has no plans to allow same-sex couples to adopt but what do you think?
# minister-for-children - Wednesday 1 February, 2012
ISPCC granted licence to run 116000 missing child hotline
The hotline number was reserved for over four years before ComReg received an application to operate it.
# minister-for-children - Monday 12 December, 2011
What does the average family in Ireland look like?
The traditional model of a married couple making up a family is in decline, according to a major new study which looked at family structures in Ireland.
# minister-for-children - Wednesday 12 October, 2011
Concerns raised over child safety and privacy online
A study commissioned by the ISPCC found that one-third of primary school children did not know how to keep their social network account private, while one in six secondary students had met someone in person after meeting them online.
# minister-for-children - Monday 26 September, 2011
Clerical abuse in Ireland tantamount to torture: report
A study into the Ferns, Murphy, Ryan and Cloyne child abuse reports criticises the lack of prosecution against child sexual and physical abusers and those who concealed that abuse.
# minister-for-children - Tuesday 30 August, 2011
HSE and gardaí investigate abuse allegations at Co Cork boarding school
The inquiries concern a Carraig na bhFearr boarding school run by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.
# minister-for-children - Tuesday 19 July, 2011
Daily Fix: Tuesday
In today’s Fix: Ireland’s first female Chief Justice is named; News International heads face questioning over alleged phone hacking; and the Rubberbandits take New York…
# minister-for-children - Thursday 7 July, 2011
Calls for research into sexualisation and commercialisation of Irish children
A recent report published in the UK said that retailers, broadcasters, the government and parents all had a part to play, and included a number of proposals.
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Poll: Will you go to a pub/restaurant when they're permitted to open on 29 June?
THE PLAN TO re-open Ireland has accelerated rapidly, after the Taoiseach yesterday announced a string of guidelines that had been brought forward.
One of those guidelines concerns pubs. The original plan had been to re-open them at the beginning of Phase Five in August, but under the new plans pubs that serve food will be permitted to open when Phase Three begins on 29 June.
They do not require a restaurant licence to open but must comply with strict social distancing protocols which would prohibit gatherings around the bar and require people to be served at appropriately spaced tables.
Chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan urged pubs to be “sensible” yesterday, and added that a few “fellas drinking pints and eating a packet of peanuts” will not constitute a pub operating as a restaurant.
Restaurants will also be permitted to open from this date, as long as they adhere to the above protocols.
So, today we’re asking you: Will you go to a pub/restaurant when they’re permitted to open on 29 June?
Poll Results:
I'll leave it a week or two, maybe longer (6021)
No (4720)
Maybe sometime during that week (3784)
Yes, on the 29th (3098)
I wouldn't usually frequent them anyway (1436)
Not sure (1150)
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