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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Support Bill 2017: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the Minister for her reply. We had been doing so much on social media and data as they relate to children. I will withdraw the amendment.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Support Bill 2017: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: If we are unhappy with what the Minister comes back with we can amend it at that stage.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Support Bill 2017: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: Yes, but we may come back on Report Stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: State Examinations: Discussion (6 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank everybody, including those in the Gallery, for attending. I have a great interest in the area, and not necessarily in the context of the current debate on some of the proposed reforms of the leaving certificate. It relates to students' anxiety, stress and mental health. It even starts as young as primary school, as we see children worrying about spelling tests on Fridays. Children...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: State Examinations: Discussion (6 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I agree with Ms Leydon that students may not attend a DEIS school yet qualify for DEIS status. While funding is an issue, one way to solve the problem is to expand the school completion programme because it does a lot of good work. Many schools that do not have a DEIS status participate in the school completion programme. The programme makes a great difference to the lives of many...

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Motion (7 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion. I also welcome the important step forward in ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It is a step forward and that is really all we can say on it. While it is welcome, what we need to see in the disability sector is action. We need to see services being adequately resourced with both staff...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 40 - Department of Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (7 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: My question relates to the school completion programmes, which I believe falls under subhead A.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 40 - Department of Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (7 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: It is confusing sometimes to know the category under which an issue falls. I welcome that the Minister singled out the school completion programme in her opening statement. At every opportunity I get I will raise that programme and the good work the people involved do. I honestly do not know how they do that fantastic work on the budget available to them. I am aware the Minister had the...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 40 - Department of Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (7 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I welcome the Minister's honest answer regarding the funding. I know she has consulted with the co-ordinators but it is very important to them that they are consulted. I have seen many good examples at first hand of people who have benefited greatly from school completion. If a student is in a school completion programme school he or she has access to counselling, play therapy at primary...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 40 - Department of Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (7 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the Minister.

Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Special Educational Needs (8 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the Minister for coming into the House to address this important issue. I raise the case of a child in Kilkenny called James Brennan. I have the permission of his family to name him and to talk about his case. Obviously, this is a measure of last resort. In fairness to his mother, she has been battling on his behalf for every service he has received to date. She has been trying...

Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Special Educational Needs (8 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I have been dealing with this case since last November so the Department is well aware of the details of the case. For the purposes of clarification, I sent on all of the relevant information to the Department again today in order that the Minister would have the details before coming into the House this evening. The Department already has all of the details. James has already been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (8 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to open teaching opportunities to persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11492/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Work Permits Eligibility (8 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 474. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an organisation (details supplied) is seeking to have the number of work permits for non-EU nationals increased specifically for persons that would be employed as truck drivers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11111/18]

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I am sharing time with Deputies Quinlivan, Tóibín and Munster. Dr. Rhona Mahony, Master of the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, stated it was clear that the eighth amendment did not protect the best interests of mothers or babies. Obviously, we need to remove the eighth amendment from the Constitution, but I do not think we can underestimate the job of work we have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (20 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether a school is allowed to withdraw an offer of a school place to a child (details supplied) on learning that the child has a disability. [12369/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (20 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures his Department will take to ensure a child has secured a place at a school (details supplied). [12370/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Career Breaks (21 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the payments made to members of the Houses of the Oireachtas under the Oireachtas leave scheme for teachers in each of the years 1985 to 2000, by school, in tabular form. [13185/18]

Services for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (27 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: At the core of this debate are families. Family carers provide around €10 billion in unpaid care each year. They face daily battles just to get what they are entitled to. They face inadequate respite services, inadequate assessment services and difficulty in obtaining allowances and benefits, and they must constantly jump through hoops for the State to get every little thing....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (27 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans from a new co-educational, multidenominational, non-fee-paying, second-level school for children attending primary schools of such an ethos in Dublin 6, Dublin 6W, Dublin 8 and Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13778/18]