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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Issues Arising from Brexit: Retail NI and Retail Excellence Ireland (6 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the witnesses and open the floor to questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Issues Arising from Brexit: Retail NI and Retail Excellence Ireland (6 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Does Mr. Roberts wish to respond on those?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Issues Arising from Brexit: Retail NI and Retail Excellence Ireland (6 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Are there any further questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Issues Arising from Brexit: Retail NI and Retail Excellence Ireland (6 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Does Ms Higgins wish to add anything?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Issues Arising from Brexit: Retail NI and Retail Excellence Ireland (6 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank both witnesses for their attendance. I also thank them for the additional documents supplied. All of the information will prove helpful. Brexit is the main focus of the committee at the moment and we will publish a report on it shortly. I wish to advise the committee that today is last day that Ms Moore-Durajczyk will act as our clerk because she has decided to return to the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Capitation Grants (11 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 797. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of increasing the capitation grant for the free preschool year by €5 per week per child for both existing lower and higher capitation rates. [17575/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (11 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 798. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of employing ten new special needs assistants working for early years services at five hours per day five days a week for 52 weeks. [17576/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (11 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 799. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 839 of 7 March 2017, the estimated cost for the number of children anticipated to avail of targeted subsidies in the ACS scheme in year one. [17598/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (11 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 800. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 840 of 7 March 2017, the estimated cost for the number of children anticipated to avail of the universal subsidy in the ACS in year one. [17599/17]

Garda Commissioner: Motion [Private Members] (12 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I am sharing time with Deputy Ellis. It is clear that public confidence in An Garda Síochána will be further eroded by Nóirín O’Sullivan remaining as Garda Commissioner. Her position has become untenable. The Government should now use the power provided to it under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 to remove her from office. Commissioner O’Sullivan...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Paternity Leave Scheme (12 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 217. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of statutory paternity benefit in 2016; and the number of men who availed of the full two weeks. [18667/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Maternity Benefit Data (12 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 218. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of statutory maternity benefit in 2016; and the number of women who availed of the full 26 weeks. [18668/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Maternity Benefit Data (12 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 219. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of extending maternity leave by a further two weeks in one budgetary year. [18669/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (12 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 366. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost for the inclusion of seven days of non-contact time for all early years services in budget 2017. [18670/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Strategy Implementation (12 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 367. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of early years services, both community and private, that have completed the full Aistear curriculum to date; and the number that have yet to complete the curriculum. [18671/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (12 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 368. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of inspectors employed by Tusla to inspect all services in the early years sector. [18672/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (12 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 369. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost for inspectors employed by Tusla to inspect all services in the early years sector in one budgetary year. [18673/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (12 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 370. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an allocation of additional funding has been made towards community-based crèches which face imminent closure; and if so, the amount and the number of those community services being targeted with the additional funding. [18674/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Reviews (13 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 385. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the expected cost of the independent review of the cost of providing quality childcare in private and community settings; and if her Department will require additional money in budget 2018 to meet the cost. [19108/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications Data (2 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 98. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons on a list in 2017 to be cleared of Garda vetting for the purpose of working in early years services. [20639/17]