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Children & Youth Affairs Minister Frances Fitzgerald today announced the setting up of the Task Force on the Child & Family Support Agency. The Minister emphasised the Programme for Government commitment to...

The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald, TD, today (23 September 2011) announced the setting up of the Task Force on the Child & Family Support Agency. The Minister emphasised the Programme for...

The Minister of State for Training and Skills, Ciarán Cannon, T.D., today visited the Youthreach Centre in Rush, Co. Dublin to mark the Centre’s 20th anniversary. Youthreach provides low-skilled early school leavers ...

Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald TD, has welcomed the establishment by the HSE of a Freephone Helpdesk for those who may require...

The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald TD and the Minister for Justice and Equality, Alan Shatter TD, today welcomed the action being taken by the HSE National Director, Gordon Jeyes, and by Detective Superintendent John McCann...

Frances Fitzgerald, T.D., Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, today announced funding of €0.8 million under the Expansion of the Young People’s Facilities and Services Fund (YPFSF) to the four new towns of Arklow, Athone...

I wish to thank Cumann Merriman for the kind invitation to be with you here tonight in Lisdoonvara. As Minister for Children and Youth Affairs it is a great honour and sincere privilege for me to be asked to address the opening of this summer school on the theme of ’Changing Irish Childhoods’....

The Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton TD announced today (10th August 2011) that over €198 million is being provided for her Department’s Back to Education Allowance scheme (BTEA) for the 2011/12 academic year...

Children & Youth Affairs Minister Frances Fitzgerald today launched Listen to Our Voices: Hearing Children and Young People Living in the Care of the State. Listen to Our Voices is the report of consultations with 220 children...

I am pleased that so many congregations are represented here. I understand that due to the timing of the meeting, the Rosminians, the Daughters of the Heart of Mary and the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity...