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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Health Issues: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (14 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: Do that first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Health Issues: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (14 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: When will a decision be made on the national PPCI programme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Health Issues: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (14 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: When will they come on stream?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries (19 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: 508. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the work that is under way in reviewing Ireland's eel management plan; the timeframe and the nature of the engagement that will be undertaken with stakeholders; if he will provide details as to the way the stocks will be monitored scientifically, and by whom; if he will undertake to look...

Topical Issue Debate: Arts Funding (26 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: I want to raise the issue of a small amount of money that has a huge impact on Waterford every year. The Imagine arts festival is a special festival which is relatively small in scale but by no means lacking in programme events or community participation. The festival runs every October for ten days. It was founded in 2003 and has grown in scale and content since then. It is very much a...

Topical Issue Debate: Arts Funding (26 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: As it stands, no Arts Council funding is going into Waterford for festivals. I accept the Minister cannot interfere in the process. However, as the Department sets the policy in terms of inclusion of young people and of community arts in particular, can the Department find the €11,000 elsewhere? Otherwise we will have no festival in Waterford. The contracts have been signed and the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council Grants (26 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: 1060. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will investigate the circumstances in which the Waterford Imagine Arts Festival had all of its Arts Council funding cut, without any prior warning, despite it receiving funding for the past 13 years; the reason for the cut; if she will commit to helping to reinstate the funding, which was less that €11,000 annually,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (9 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: 783. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently waiting on a full diagnostic assessment for autism in Waterford University Hospital; if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the waiting list times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21937/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (9 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: 796. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details as to the composition of the autism team in University Hospital Waterford; if all the positions are covered; the number of psychologists on the team who can do a full diagnostic assessment; the length of time it will take, and the progress that has been made in recruiting a psychologist who can carry out a full diagnostic...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (9 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: 880. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to recruit a full-time consultant psychologist for the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in County Waterford; if he is satisfied with arrangements at present, given that the post has been vacant since April, and concerns are being expressed by the PNA; his views that the service is fit for purpose; if he will give a breakdown of waiting...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Fee Paying Schools (9 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: 977. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, for each of the past five years, the amount of funding provided to each fee paying school for the purchase of laptops, tablets (details supplied) and information technology equipment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21961/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Amnesty International Report on Ireland's Abortion Laws: Discussion (9 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: I thank the speakers for their contributions. I have not got to read the report in great detail today but I welcome the opportunity to discuss this issue with them. I have some specific questions about the pieces I have read. With respect to the closing arguments that were made about repealing the eighth amendment, that abortion be decriminalised and that the Protection of Life During...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: I remind members to make sure their mobile phones are switched off. This is important as they cause serious problems for the broadcasting, editorial and sound recording staff. Today, the Joint Committee on Health and Children is holding its third hearing on affordable and quality child care. The child care sector faces a range of challenges, including the significant cost of child care...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: I thank Ms Mary Lacey-Crowe for her opening statement. I invite Ms Denise McCormilla of the National Childhood Network to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: Thank you. We will move to some questions. Members will have six minutes each. I thank Deputy McLellan for joining us, as I know she had questions in the Dáil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: Deputy Sandra McLellan is the joint committee's special rapporteur on this aspect of child care. I invite her to make a contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: Quite a number of questions were posed. I will ask Ms Quinn to address those that were directed to her.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: We have heard about various approaches to providing for special needs. Does Ms Lacey-Crowe advocate a particular model? Is it a question of providing special needs assistants or additional training for mainstream service providers? What is the model of best practice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: What currently happens?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: We will move on to the second round of questions. I call Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor who will be followed by Deputies Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin and Catherine Byrne and Senator Colm Burke.