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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (12 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 495. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which the allocated €1.5 million in budget 2020 for the 121 family resource centres will be divided; if the amount allocated is in addition to core funding; and if it is planned for certain programmes that will be rolled out within the family resource centres. [46078/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (14 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 165. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in State care that are the children of mothers who grew up in State care. [46955/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Data (14 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 166. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the percentage of children in foster care that come from a Traveller background. [46956/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (19 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 598. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the basis on which she seeks to ignore the Labour Relations Commission recommendation on pensions for community employment supervisors; her views on whether the introduction of auto enrolment has no bearing on the community employment workers recommendation; her further views on whether the State needs to take the direction...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (19 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 665. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there have been new affordable housing developments in County Kilkenny in the past ten years. [47574/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (19 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 666. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are council-owned lands in County Kilkenny that could be identified as suitable for affordable housing. [47575/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (19 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 667. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to roll out affordable housing in County Kilkenny in the next two years; and the details of the plans. [47576/19]

Supporting Children out of Emergency Accommodation and into Homes: Statements (21 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: I am sharing time with Deputy Mitchell. I am always reluctant to discuss homelessness, and particularly child homelessness, in this way because it means it is accepted. We must first state that it is totally unacceptable, disgraceful and completely unfair. Those words are not even strong enough for the kids growing up in bed and breakfast accommodation, hotels or the family hubs about...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (26 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if holders of the stamp 4S permission will be regarded as non-compliant with the conditions of the permission if they avail of a national childcare scheme subsidy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49146/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (26 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 312. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in a person (details supplied) receiving a day service in view of the fact the person has a personalised budget and should have no issues receiving the service. [48908/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Expenditure (26 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 438. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the expenditure on childcare in each year since 2014, by scheme; the allocation and estimated out-turn for 2019 and the allocation for 2020, in tabular form. [48697/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unfair Dismissals (26 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 485. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person cannot be dismissed from a job on the grounds that he or she is claiming the carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48907/19]

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Supplementary Estimates for the Public Services 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (3 Dec 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: I apologise for coming in late to the Minister's presentation. No data concerning efficiency are available from 2014 to 2018. I refer to the conclusions and key findings in the report. Between 2014 and 2018, it states insufficient data were collected on the level of expenditure and the number of staff at the service programme level for the years 2014 to 2018 to allow for an evaluation of...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Supplementary Estimates for the Public Services 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (3 Dec 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: The spending review for 2019 published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I referred to the conclusions and key findings relating to efficiency. I am concerned because any organisation that receives funding says that it has to do its paperwork and comply with red tape. A great deal of information is required of them and they must answer many questions, rightly so. Yet,...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Supplementary Estimates for the Public Services 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (3 Dec 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: I would like the Minister to do that because I am concerned about a lack of data for four full years.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Supplementary Estimates for the Public Services 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (3 Dec 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: Yes, it is a long period. It is fair enough if Tusla is going to improve but we still need information for that period. It is not acceptable for an organisation not to be accountable for four years of public money.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Supplementary Estimates for the Public Services 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (3 Dec 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: The report does not say that.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Supplementary Estimates for the Public Services 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (3 Dec 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: Will the Minister come back to us with information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance Issues in Scouting Ireland: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: I appreciate the fact that the witnesses are here with us today. We all know the history we have in this country of child sexual abuse and it just seems that this is another organisation with another story and cover-ups. That is what it feels like to the general public, whether Scouting Ireland agrees or disagrees with the statement. There are a number of elements involved. There is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance Issues in Scouting Ireland: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: Yes.