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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her response. I tabled this question because a number of community child care providers have contacted me. As the Minister will be aware, a number of meetings regarding this issue have been held, particularly in the south of the country. I asked the Minister for Social Protection a few weeks ago to indicate the number of workers participating on community...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I welcome that the Minister finished her response by saying that she will look into the community sector to assist those services challenged with respect to their viability and sustainability. In one crèche in Clare that has a staff of ten, it relies on community employment workers for four positions. I would love to know if the Minister's Department has done an analysis on that. How...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Administration (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 18. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the information technology infrastructure that will be used to deliver the single affordable child care scheme; her contingency plan if the information technology infrastructure is not ready by September 2017; if her attention has been drawn to the considerable inconvenience that a lack of infrastructure would cause parents...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Administration (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the information technology infrastructure that will be used to deliver the single affordable child care scheme and her contingency plan if the information technology infrastructure is not ready by September.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Administration (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for her comments. I hear what she is saying, that we will pay the price for a rushed effort in the long run. However, many parents and child care providers are asking what will happen in the interim, how they will avail of the scheme, how they will apply for it, where they will find the time to fill out the forms and, if self-employed, whether they will apply to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Administration (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: There is a comfort in the Minister's answer that her Department is taking ownership of the scheme. That is fantastic because hers is probably one of the hardest working Departments. She is right that the work required is significant and very complex. However, the providers need to know when the parents come to them to ask questions and enrol in the scheme if they are to tell those...

Other Questions: Child Care Services (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 65. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the information technology system for administering the single affordable child care scheme; if it will be available for September 2017; and if not, the alternative arrangements that she will put in place. [15221/17]

Other Questions: Child Care Services (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Although the Minister has answered this question already, I ask her for further clarification regarding the interim reports on the commission of investigation on the mother and baby homes, taking into account that I am from east Galway and Tuam is in my constituency. Many people down there are waiting for the interim report. Excuse me. Did I skip Deputy Ó Laoghaire?

Other Questions: Child Care Services (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I am sorry. I did not realise we had moved on to a different topic.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 30. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the interim report on the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15225/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Staff (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 44. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the additional supports that will be extended to community child care facilities following recent changes whereby community employment workers are no longer counted as part of the child-staff ratio. [15224/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 53. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of consultation between her Department and the Department of Education and Skills and-or the Department of Health on necessary supports for children with a disability who are in mainstream early childhood services; and if she will provide the national strategy to support these children. [15222/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 67. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she will publish a new school completion strategy to further improve school completion rates, particularly in disadvantaged areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15223/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Leader Programmes Administration (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 309. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in circumstances in which Government funding has been allocated to a community enterprise (details supplied) and subsequently an issue arises over right of access, the appeal mechanisms for the certified registered folio land number; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15249/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Leader Programmes Administration (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 310. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when local communities across County Galway will be approved an administrator for the roll-out of Leader funding (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15514/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Funding (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 313. To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding his Department is allocating to a cancer support centre (details supplied) that provides support for children with a cancer diagnosis. [15155/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Funding (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 383. To ask the Minister for Health when he will provide funding for an administrator and secretarial assistant for an organisation (details supplied) that provides a counselling service, treatment rooms and physiotherapy weekly for persons diagnosed with cancer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15296/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 384. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who were registered and diagnosed as having a congenital condition causing loss of eyesight as of December 2016, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15297/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (28 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 567. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding compulsory purchase orders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15521/17]

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: The first time the Minister of State and I met was at NUI Galway last year at the launch of the inclusive centenaries scholarships. It was a great day of celebration when scholarships were announced for young asylum seekers living in direct provision. NUI Galway is providing scholarships for people who have done incredibly well in education, giving them the opportunity to go forward. The...