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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Acht na Gaeilge: Engagement with Conradh na Gaeilge (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: There is no difficulty with that. I would just like to say that I can hear, to a certain extent, the frustration in the witnesses' voices. I can appreciate that. I think it was Mr. de Spáinn who noted it has been nearly 20 years since the Good Friday Agreement. Clearly we are the committee tasked with trying to ensure the Agreement gets fully implemented, so it is no difficulty for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Acht na Gaeilge: Engagement with Conradh na Gaeilge (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I concur with what Mr. Mac Giolla Bhéin is saying. We completely agree and Mr. Mac Ghiolla Bhéin definitely has the support of this committee. In respect of what he has said about some of his work suffering, I think he is doing excellent work. There has been good promotion. I would have loved the opportunity to have attended a Gaelscoil. I have at least had the opportunity to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Acht na Gaeilge: Engagement with Conradh na Gaeilge (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Mr. Mac Giolla Bhéin. I encourage members to attend that on Saturday, 20 May. I thank the witnesses for coming in and for their presentations. We have no problem endorsing the proposal and we are hopeful we will follow up with them in respect of progress, and not in 20 years.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (9 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 661. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of admissions of women to a centre (details supplied) in the past ten years. [22006/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (9 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 662. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children or babies of women attending a centre (details supplied) in the past ten year period who have been taken into care by social services as a result of being deemed at high risk. [22007/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Birth Data (10 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 194. To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies that were delivered prematurely in 2016; and the number of babies that have been delivered prematurely to date in 2017. [22231/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Standards (11 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 17. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department has given consideration to a streamlining of the inspections system for the early years sector in order to decrease the amount of administrative work carried out by services. [22310/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (11 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 30. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to tackle the lack of availability of early years service provision to those under three years of age; and the work being undertaken by her Department to ensure that there is not a monopoly of early childhood care and education provision in the services for babies under three years of age. [22311/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Findings of HIQA Statutory Foster Care Service Inspection Reports: Discussion (17 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Ms Dunnion for the presentation. It is, as Senator Freeman stated, scary, but it also would make one very angry. HIQA has a reputation that it can go in and potentially close down organisations that are not operating to standard, and yet we have a situation where 465 children have no assigned social worker and nothing can be done about it. I wonder where HIQA sees the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (18 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Apologies have been received from Deputies Maureen O'Sullivan, Brendan Smith and Sean Sherlock and Senator Mark Daly. As I said at the last meeting, we do not have Northern Ireland MPs present because the Westminster Parliament has been dissolved. We will not have any Northern Ireland members until 8 June. Today, we will hear from Mr. Mark Bassett, barrister-at-law, and Professor Colin...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Voting Rights in Northern Ireland: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I welcome our guests, Mr. Mark Bassett and Professor Colin Harvey. They will address our meeting today on the topic of voting rights. We will invite both witnesses to give their opening statements and then we will take some questions from the committee. Before we begin, I remind members of the committee, guests and those in the Visitors Gallery to ensure that their mobile phones, tablets...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Voting Rights in Northern Ireland: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Whichever way the witnesses would like to proceed is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Voting Rights in Northern Ireland: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank both witnesses for their presentations. We will have questions from members now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Voting Rights in Northern Ireland: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Professor Harvey.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Voting Rights in Northern Ireland: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I have some questions. The part that is relevant to us as the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement is voting rights in the North, but are the witnesses also advocating for voting rights for people in, say, America and other countries where Irish citizens reside? Is it just for presidential elections or something that should be extended to a general election...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Voting Rights in Northern Ireland: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the delegates for their contributions on what is a very interesting topic. I do not know if we can give a date for the referendum, but as the next presidential election is due to be held in November 2018, I imagine it would have to be held before then. It will probably be held early next year, if we are to speculate. I thank the delegates for coming. Their presentations were...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) was not allocated with an EAL teacher in 2017 in view of the fact that the school requested and was previously allocated one EAL teacher for the previous three consecutive school years; and the reason this decision changed in 2017 in view of the fact that there has been no change to the school's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Goods Regulation (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 434. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Macushield and Artelac medications are not being made available for medical card holders. [24041/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Staff (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 655. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if recommendations in her Department's sustainability audits of community services recommend that services cut pay to child care staff; and if so, the capacity in which, the amount involved and the circumstances in which this was decided. [24120/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Costs (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 656. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost under the proposed universal subsidy of increasing the €80 per month subsidy in €20 intervals up to the amount of €600 for all eligible parents. [24165/17]