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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Kathleen Funchion: I accept that. I have raised early years childcare in the past. It is an area I am very passionate about, but there are times when difficult questions must be asked. Our job is to represent those parents and those children. We are their only voice because they cannot get direct answers from the Department or Tusla.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Kathleen Funchion: That is not what people tell us. I have been inundated with representations from parents who do not live in my constituency but who are reaching out because they are trying to get information. They have been sending questions and asking us to please get answers. They are asking when someone will talk to or communicate with them? What will happen if the services in question close? What...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Kathleen Funchion: For clarity, Tusla will meet with parents who want to meet------
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Kathleen Funchion: The childcare committees are the ones to do this. Have they a dedicated member of staff? It will not be the case that a person will call and speak to someone who has no idea what they are talking about; it must be an individual who knows that this is part of his or her duties.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Kathleen Funchion: I thank Mr. Lee. I now turn to the Department. We are looking at early years childcare in the wrong context. Once profit is introduced, there will be 12 cent noodles and watered-down milk. We need to move away from this completely. This is more a matter for the Department than Tusla. The workers in the sector must be valued. Theirs is one of the most valuable jobs in society. We trust...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Kathleen Funchion: I have one further question for the Department and one or two more for Tusla. In the context of the parliamentary question to which I referred, I am aware of parents who took their child out of a Hyde and Seek facility well over a year ago - before this controversy came to light - and raised their concerns with the various bodies. The parliamentary question was asked on foot of that. There...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Kathleen Funchion: I have one or two other questions for Tusla. On the audit reports relating to childcare facilities that are published on the website, where parents are starting out on that journey and want to see which might be the best place, what is their timeframe? Are these reports compiled yearly? Is there information available in that regard? Ms McDonnell mentioned a consultative forum. Are workers...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Kathleen Funchion: If a facility had a breach in 2017, would that information have been available in that year or when would it have become available in a report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Kathleen Funchion: I am not talking about being on the website now but would the report appear on the website in the year of the breach or would it be in the following year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Kathleen Funchion: I have one very brief question after the question on the consultative forum.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Kathleen Funchion: Is there a union representative?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion (31 Jul 2019)
Kathleen Funchion: My final point is that as angry as everybody is, we obviously have to do something. I want to know what exactly we, as elected representatives, need to do to change this in order that Tusla can go into a facility such as that featured in the programme, where the shutters are down and cots crushed into place beside each other, and state that it has to close. There would have to be supports...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Facilities (6 Sep 2019)
Kathleen Funchion: 241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to install kitchen facilities to all State-run primary schools which do not have those facilities. [36947/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Facilities (6 Sep 2019)
Kathleen Funchion: 242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to install kitchen facilities to all State run secondary schools which do not have those facilities. [36948/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Staff (6 Sep 2019)
Kathleen Funchion: 1724. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of taking on the cost of all private childcare classroom staff at all levels nationwide; the number of childcare staff employed by private, not community run crèches at level 5, 6 and 7 based on current numbers. [36938/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Social Workers Recruitment (6 Sep 2019)
Kathleen Funchion: 1725. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of an additional ten social workers for one full year of employment on a full-time basis. [36939/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (6 Sep 2019)
Kathleen Funchion: 1726. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the average salary of a full-time Tusla social worker; and the number of full-time social workers employed nationwide. [36940/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Expenditure (6 Sep 2019)
Kathleen Funchion: 1727. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost to increase all full-time social workers pay by 25%. [36941/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (6 Sep 2019)
Kathleen Funchion: 1728. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of administrative staff employed to assist Tusla social worker workloads. [36942/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Expenditure (6 Sep 2019)
Kathleen Funchion: 1729. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of hiring an additional ten administrative staff to assist Tusla social worker workloads. [36943/19]