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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme and Related Matters: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: It is a very good course but some providers with a high number of children with additional needs did not receive a place on the course while other providers with fewer children with additional needs did. It is always difficult to figure that out. It is good to hear that more people are doing it this year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme and Related Matters: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: Yes.

Topical Issue Debate: Company Closures (30 Jan 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I am pleased to have the opportunity to discuss this issue. The ability of the collapse of a private company in another jurisdiction two weeks ago to have such an impact on the completion of school buildings in Ireland is, unfortunately, the direct result of public private partnerships. Our schools or other public buildings cannot be at the mercy of public private partnerships going wrong....

Topical Issue Debate: Company Closures (30 Jan 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: With the greatest respect, the Minister's reply contained little that will allay fears among the schools in question. The issue of public private partnerships is a debate for a different day as it would not help the schools in question to discuss it now. The projects are at different stages, with some ready to go and staff waiting to be given the keys to the new buildings. These projects...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I am pleased to have an opportunity to speak on this motion as housing is probably one of the biggest issues I deal with in the constituency of Carlow-Kilkenny. Today in Carlow there are 30 properties available to rent in the entire county and 32 properties are available in Kilkenny. How is anybody supposed to be able to afford to even rent a home let alone buy one? Purchasing a home is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Teachers' Remuneration (30 Jan 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 186. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeframe to act on the issue of pay inequality following the conclusion of the pay review. [4413/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (30 Jan 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe to end the pay inequality for teachers in view of the fact that we have now had over seven years of same. [4412/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (30 Jan 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which a position that is contrary to the principle of equal pay for equal work can be justified in view of the fact there is no plan to resolve the pay inequality issue. [4414/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (31 Jan 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in need of special educational and or ASD support in County Wexford, particularly in north County Wexford; and the numbers availing of special educational support and on waiting lists for same, respectively. [4779/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (31 Jan 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated figures of future need in north County Wexford based on the number of persons at pre-schooling stage who have been diagnosed on the autistic spectrum or as having other special needs. [4780/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (1 Feb 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 2. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for children with additional needs starting primary school in view of the fact that there are not enough school places for children who require space in an ASD unit and that have other such requirements within a reasonable distance. [4980/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (1 Feb 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: My question is about ASD units and what the plans are for children with additional needs who are starting primary school, in view of the fact that there are not enough school places for children who require space in an ASD unit and who have other such requirements. These units are not available within a reasonable geographic distance for students.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (1 Feb 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I am concerned that the NCSE is saying it is meeting the requirements. Unfortunately it is not. I am not sure where it is getting its figures from, but in my constituency alone in the last number of months I have dealt with three cases of children who are due to start school in September and who have no school place. Starting school is a major step in anybody's life, but if a person has an...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (1 Feb 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I understand that the children are eligible for school transport, but it is not good enough that we are asking a five year old child to get on a bus at 7.30 a.m. so that he or she can be in school for 9 a.m. The child in that instance would be awake for over an hour and a half before they even get to school and begin to learn. That is not an adequate way to learn. That child is not going...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes Provision (1 Feb 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to include as part of lifelong learning proposals, the development of a nationwide learner centred flexible and affordable high level competency based learning collaborative initiative within Irish higher education which would involve multiple community based stakeholders (details supplied). [4684/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (6 Feb 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a child with epilepsy is being denied an SNA from September 2018. [5328/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (6 Feb 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 311. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of persons from County Tipperary who are inpatients in the department of psychiatry, St. Luke’s Hospital, County Kilkenny. [5313/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (6 Feb 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 378. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of persons from Ennis who are inpatients in the department of psychiatry at St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny. [5588/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (13 Feb 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of funding available to part-time third level students in academic years (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6870/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (13 Feb 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of restoring guidance counsellors to one per 500 pupils ex-quota at post-primary schools. [6871/18]