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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Data (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 457. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding that her Department provided to bands A, AJ, B and D in 2017; and the amount she has allocated to same in 2018. [50976/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Central Statistics Office Data (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 458. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children here, by their household's income bracket (details supplied). [50977/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 459. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of Tusla registered creches, by county. [50978/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 460. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the capacity of Tusla registered creches, by county. [50979/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 461. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the capacity of Tusla registered creches for the provision of care to children under one year of age, by county. [50980/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 462. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the capacity of Tusla registered creches for the provision of care to children under two years of age, by county. [50981/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 463. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the capacity of Tusla registered creches for the provision of care to children under three years of age, by county. [50982/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first and full year cost of increasing the child benefit payment by €1, €2; €3, €4, €5, €6, €7, €8, €9, €10, €11, €12, €13, €14, €15. [51108/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the witness for his presentation. Most of the questions I intended to put have already been asked. On page 6 of his statement, Mr. Thompson mentioned that he would expect the number of requests for termination of pregnancies in cases of diagnosis of Down's syndrome to be high and that that would not be representative of the population. What does he mean by that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: No. I am afraid Mr. Thompson lost me there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Therefore page 6 shows the people who have come in and looked for the testing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Is that figure reflective of the affected pregnancies, the 76?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: All right. Of them, 44 chose medical terminations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: There were six spontaneous terminations, miscarriages.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Absolutely. There were 13 confirmed live births.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I just wanted to understand how that was worked out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. The witnesses are before us today in the context of the Citizens' Assembly recommendations and the recommendations which we, as a committee, will make to the Dáil in regard to repeal of the eighth amendment. Based on all that I have heard today, I am very concerned. First, am I correct that the role of the officials here today is that of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Okay. I have found everything said today extremely good from a parent's point of view and a child's point of view. That said, I have some concerns. Who drafts the curriculum for science, technology, engineering and mathematics, STEM? We are looking at changing how we do business in Ireland if this referendum is to be put to the people, but from an educational point of view are our young...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I have waited weeks for this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: The reason I asked that question was because Dr. Geoffrey Shannon came before the Oireachtas children's committee recently. The discussion was on cyber safety but it was also to do with children not understanding the roles and responsibilities around consent. I did not find the presentation very clear on that. I saw it for third level students. I would not expect to see it for primary...