Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Children and Youth Affairs, Anne Rabbitte TD has called on Minister Zappone to intervene to ensure flexibility and fair play for children with special needs when using the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Scheme. Deputy Rabbitte was commenting after being contacted by parents of children with special needs who have […]
Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Children & Youth Affairs Anne Rabbitte says new figures on waiting times for children are a damning indictment of the Health Minister’s record in office. “It’s simply inexcusable that for example 2,069 children are waiting over a year to see a heart specialist – indeed more than half of them are […]
Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Children & Youth Affairs Anne Rabbitte says it’s not feasible for the government to continue to ignore the recommendations of the Law Reform Commission for the establishment of a Digital Safety Commissioner in light of this week’s undercover expose of practices at Facebook. The Channel 4 programme highlighted the social media […]
Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Children & Youth Affairs Anne Rabbitte says she’s extremely concerned about the ability of the Child and Family Agency to effectively carry out its work following the publication of a HIQA review of Tusla, which found considerable deficiencies in the way the agency handles child sexual abuse allegations. This review was […]
The number of children waiting over 18 months for an outpatient consultation has broken the 10,000 threshold. The latest figures for May reveal that the list has soared to 10,295 – up from 833 in May 2016. That’s twelvefold increase in two years. An analysis of the latest waiting figures published by the National Treatment […]
Fianna Fáil TDs, Jack Chambers and Anne Rabbitte have written to the Chairperson of the Oireachtas Justice Committee to request that the party’s Gambling Control Bill be accelerated through committee stage in Dáil Éireann. Their request to advance this bill, which is also co-sponsored by Deputy Jim O’Callaghan, comes as the World Cup football tournament […]
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