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Written Answers — Department of Health: Counselling Services (26 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 722. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that counselling and psychotherapy services are regulated here, as is the practice in other European Union countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20596/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (26 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 939. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the persons and bodies responsible for paying water charges for elderly persons who live in sheltered accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19972/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Efficiency (26 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 949. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when Cork County Council will be allocated money by his Department for insulation works for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20168/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (26 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 952. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when his decision to grant a foreshore licence to Irish Water for a wastewater treatment plant in Youghal in County Cork will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20249/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Administration (26 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 1040. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when decisions will issue on sports capital grants for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20591/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Fund (26 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 1057. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if grants are available for trusts (details supplied) to carry out upgrading and maintenance works on their properties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19992/15]

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: That would be a change.

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: Two Whips?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Data (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 2. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the interdepartmental group which was established by his Department to address the child care crisis is addressing the issue of low wages for early childhood professionals whose work is critical during this key foundation stage of child development; and his views that Government must take responsibility for the issue of training and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Data (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: Before I begin, I want to register my objection to the fact that Question Time to the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs has been cut by 50 minutes this morning on such an important issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Data (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: That said, I want to ask the Minister if the interdepartmental group, which was set up by his Department to address the child care crisis in this State, is addressing the issue of low wages of early childhood professionals whose work is critical during this key foundation stage of child development. Does the Minister believe that the Government must take responsibility for the issue of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Data (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: At a recent meeting of the Committee on Health and Children, a representative from a children's advocacy organisation stated that during the course of their research on the quality of child care in this State, one woman commented that she earned more in her local chipper than she did in her role as a child care worker. It was pointed out that it was common for workers to subsidise their...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Data (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: I am the special rapporteur for the preparation of an all-party Oireachtas Committee report on child care. During the course of that research we were told that for those who are willing and hopeful to upskill, there is simply no incentive to stay as there are no employment benefits. Does the Minister agree that the economics of child care have long been skewed? Amid an absence of...

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: As outlined previously during my party colleagues' contributions, the Government's decision to sell its share in Aer Lingus is a short-sighted move which will create years of uncertainty and economic difficulties for the State. It will create uncertainty for the thousands of workers who work for Aer Lingus or who work peripherally to it in Ireland. A major question mark hangs over the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Funding (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 19. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, ceasing to fund the Disability Equality Specialist Support Agency on 30 June 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19795/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Remit (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 25. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, is responsible for the care of children with intellectual disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19794/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Bodies (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 26. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a detailed update on the work and meetings of the interdepartmental group established to address the issue of child care and related issues. [19797/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 39. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to have any input or make recommendations, specifically under his remit of the protection of children, to the working group set up by the Department of Justice and Equality which plans to review a range of issues pertaining to asylum seekers and direct provision, which will inevitably include the welfare of children residing in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 40. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when details of the Open Policy Debate on Future Investment in Early Years and School-Age Care and Education Services, which was hosted by his Department on 31 March 2015, will be published, in order that the proposals made at the meeting by parents, providers, academics, city and county child care committees and non-governmental...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 183. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure funding is provided to Cork County Council as per its request to employ a school warden to manage a pedestrian crossing at a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20902/15]