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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: State Bodies (10 Feb 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 354. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff and the level of resources that will be allocated to Tusla and the Adoption Authority of Ireland specifically to operationalise the Birth (Information and Tracing) Bill 2022. [7150/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Feb 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 356. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount spent on the once-off reopening grant for centre-based providers. [7179/22]

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: I want to mention the issues of rents, which loads of Members have mentioned. I do not like to say it is at crisis point because it has nearly gone beyond that at this stage. In the two clinics I run, one in Kilkenny and one in Bagenalstown in Carlow, I had an individual in each, one of whom is due to be out of his or her property this Saturday and the other of whom is due to be out in the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (15 Feb 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 278. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the long wait times customers at several of the country’s largest banks have to wait for customer service; if he has addressed the matter with the Central Bank; the actions his officials have taken to address same considering the investment by the State in the banking sector here; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Feb 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 485. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention been drawn to an anomaly with the living alone allowance that means some single persons are not entitled to this allowance and that this is discrimination based on their civil status given that they are not in receipt of a social welfare allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7469/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (15 Feb 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 527. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide further details on the once-off measure costing €37 million in relation to the Transition Fund for providers in the early learning and childcare sector; the way the measure will be distributed to providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7995/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: State Bodies (15 Feb 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 530. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the location of all adoption records held by Tusla; and the safeguards that have been put in place to ensure the safety of the records. [8127/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (15 Feb 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 531. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if all adoption records have been scanned by Tusla; and the standard of same. [8128/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (15 Feb 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 532. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the location of all adoption records held by the Adoption Authority; and the safeguards that have been put in place to ensure the safety of the records. [8129/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (15 Feb 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 533. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if all adoption records have been scanned by the Adoption Authority; and the standard of same. [8130/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (15 Feb 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 543. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 122 of 26 January 2022, the amount of the estimated €690.9 million annual cost of directly employed staff, pre-Covid-19 conditions, approximately covered by public funding broken down by scheme. [8336/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (15 Feb 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 544. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that he did not appoint experts with lived experience of adoption, mother and baby homes and related issues to the Birth Information and Tracing Implementation Group. [8351/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (15 Feb 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 545. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that he did not appoint experts advocating on behalf of persons affected by adoption, mother and baby homes and related issues to the Birth Information and Tracing Implementation Group. [8352/22]

Estimates for Public Services 2022: Message from Select Committee (16 Feb 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: The Select Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2022: Vote 37.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Feb 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 163. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way that the once-off transition fund will work; if it will be based on the employment wage subsidy scheme model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8570/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (16 Feb 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 164. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way that the core funding will operate; the criteria for core funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8571/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (16 Feb 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 165. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the core funding will be based on capacity rather than attendance; the way that this will be regulated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8572/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (16 Feb 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 166. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if services will continue to receive individual payments for children through the NCS. [8575/22]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: Apologies have been received from Deputies Murnane O'Connor and Phelan, and Senators Ruane, Keogan and Seery Kearney. Today, we are undertaking pre-legislative scrutiny of the assisted decision-making (capacity) (amendment) Bill 2021. I welcome to the meeting representatives of the National Platform of Self Advocates. We are joined by Mr. Joe McGrath and Mr. Dermot Lowndes. We are also...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: We will come back to Mr. McGrath for some questions in a little while. We have some other opening statements and then there might be a few questions for him.