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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 224. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the provision that is made for widowers and widows who are full-time carers who are not in receipt of a pension, can only avail of a half carer’s allowance and are not entitled to the fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48814/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (5 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 257. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will list the private foster-care companies that are contracted to Tusla for the purposes of sourcing, vetting and supporting foster carers; and the amount paid to each company for each of the years 2020 and 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [48775/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (5 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 258. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Health Information and Quality Authority has a role in oversight of private foster care companies contracted to Tusla; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48776/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (5 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 259. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons that are in receipt of the universal subsidy under the national childcare scheme. [48791/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (5 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 260. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons in receipt of the means tested subsidy under the national childcare scheme. [48792/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (5 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 278. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prison officers that are fully trained in CPR. [48787/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (5 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 315. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 827 of 12 July 2022, if he will confirm that the staffing issue with the children’s disability network team in Carlow has been resolved; if staffing levels have risen beyond 3.51; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48777/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (5 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 316. To ask the Minister for Health when the three vacant whole-time equivalent speech and language therapists will be filled; the steps that he has taken to ensure that these posts are filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48778/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (5 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 317. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the dental appointment waiting list for counties Carlow and Kilkenny as of 27 September 2022; the average waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48784/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (5 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 318. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that visited the accident and emergency department at St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny in each of the years of 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [48785/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (5 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 322. To ask the Minister for Health the funding schemes that are in place for children and young people requiring transport to their disability day services in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48823/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (5 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 366. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in issuing a green low-carbon agri-environment scheme payment to a person (details supplied). [48780/22]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: We have received apologies from Deputies Ward and Sherlock. Before we commence our engagement with the witnesses, I need to deal with another item, namely, the decision of the committee regarding two EU Commission proposals. COM(2018)271 is a proposal for a Council recommendation on high-quality early childhood education and care systems and COM(2021)93 is a proposal for a directive of the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: We are joined this afternoon by the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy Roderic O'Gorman, and the following officials from the Department: Ms Laura McGarrigle, assistant secretary; Mr. James Gibbs, principal officer; and Mr. David Noone, principal officer. The witnesses are all very welcome and we thank them, and the Minister in particular, for coming...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the Minister. I will run through the speaking order for members’ information and will go through who is joining online. Senator Seery Kearney will be first, and she will be followed by Deputy Cairns, Senator Clonan and Deputy Murnane-O’Connor.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: I must move on. We have time so we will probably be able to come back to the Deputy. I call Senator Clonan, who will be followed by Deputy Murnane O'Connor. We should have time to come back to Deputy Cairns.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: Do you have anything else to add Deputy Murnane O'Connor?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: I have a couple of questions to ask and then I will bring in anyone who has additional points. As mentioned by others, part of the difficulty is the fact that we are dealing with a group of people who have been so let down on so many occasions by the State that there really is no trust. You can understand why. The Minister even acknowledged how people found out that the commitment that...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: Yes. There is probably no way of doing that retrospectively. That is what I am wondering.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: Regarding the official statement, would it not have been possible to do something similar if there had been a review with a human rights perspective? If somebody chooses to take a court case, is that something that could be open to-----