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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protections) Bill 2018: Discussion (22 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: One of the submissions referred to how housing constitutes a barrier to access to education and staying in education. We all know about this. I know of so many commuting students who ended up dropping out. It is impossible to study, commute and try to pay for everything. We all know the stories. I acknowledge some positive points were made on the RTB and on the complexity of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protections) Bill 2018: Discussion (22 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I do not have many questions. I welcome that the USI is supportive of the Bill. Its representatives are preaching to the converted in terms of all the stuff they are saying about students. We know of many situations of people struggling to stay in college. If they end up dropping out, fees the following year are an issue if they did not complete their first year. I will take the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protections) Bill 2018: Discussion (22 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I thought I would take the chance while she was present.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protections) Bill 2018: Discussion (22 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Ms Byrne for that.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of progress on the renewal of a lease held by a school (details supplied) to secure permanent stabilising tenancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49106/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (27 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused a place at a local national school which they had been enrolled in prior to commencement particularly when this school has a special unit for special needs; his views on whether this decision is discriminatory and entirely unfair refusing this young person a place to begin primary school...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Autism Support Services (28 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 36. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the acute shortage of ASD classes and services being provided for children in both primary and post-primary education nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49596/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Autism Support Services (28 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: My question is on the provision of ASD supports. What is the Department's plan to address the acute shortage of ASD classes and services being provided for children in both primary and post-primary education?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Autism Support Services (28 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the Minister. Some of what he said is welcome. I am aware of the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018, which we debated in the House. My fear is that we again have a situation where children who have an additional need or a disability are falling through the cracks or being left behind. They are being treated differently from children starting in mainstream schools with no...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Autism Support Services (28 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I agree that where ASD units are operational they are, in the main, successful. That, however, is the reason I raised this issue. Greater access is needed for students. There are many different examples of where that is needed and I am not the only person who could cite examples; every Deputy could probably do so. Some students cannot start school. They have to go to a special school and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (28 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in regard to sexual health and relationship education, including the areas of contraception and consent, in primary and post-primary schools. [49414/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Mental Health Strategies (28 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposal to include mindfulness in primary school education; if there is a timeframe for this to be introduced into the curriculum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49412/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (28 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to review the requirements from SUSI for grant allocation particularly for those students that do not qualify due to their address being marginally outside the agreed set SUSI distance boundaries and therefore do not meet the requirements. [49534/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (28 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of financial settlements reached with staff in schools nationally in the past five years; the cost of these settlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49411/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (28 Nov 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to improve interdepartmental communication and co-operation in the area of the development of apprenticeships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49413/18]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (4 Dec 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I will focus on education. When can we expect the right to education to finally become a universal right for all children, including children with additional needs and children on the autism spectrum? We know there are long waiting lists for diagnosis. This means children are being left behind. Obviously, this has a major impact on their education. I would like to mention a particular...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: That is the second time Deputy Danny Healy-Rae has done it.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early Childhood Care and Education (4 Dec 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria for over age exemption for the early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme; and the reason a child with an autism diagnosis who cannot start school until 2019 due to a lack of suitable school places would not qualify for the exemption. [50541/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (4 Dec 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 387. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be rescheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50561/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (4 Dec 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 397. To ask the Minister for Health when the review of the level of supports and services to persons with autism spectrum disorder, in respect of which he established a working group in August 2017, will be published; and the status of progress. [50587/18]