Results 1,361-1,380 of 5,087 for speaker:Kathleen Funchion

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when driving tests will resume. [18596/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions in place for children from junior infants to third class that have medical conditions for returning to school in view of the fact that the advice to date is that they will not have to social distance; and the way in which such children will be protected. [18597/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) is not eligible to repeat their final year of secondary school. [18598/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consult with Waterford Institute of Technology on work placements for social care students, having regard to the special circumstances caused by Covid-19 (details supplied). [18599/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Parental Leave (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 561. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing six weeks of parental benefit which would be the same rate as maternity benefit but could be taken by either parent or shared between the two at the end of the period of maternity leave. [18223/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Adoption Data (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 562. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending adoptive benefit to male couples that are currently excluded due to a technicality in the legislation which only allows for the adoptive mother or sole male adopter to avail of it. [18224/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Maternity Benefit (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 563. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing maternity, paternity and adoptive benefit by €10 per week. [18225/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Maternity Benefit (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending maternity benefit to 52 weeks. [18661/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 698. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of paying the overhead contribution for 2021 at the rate of payment made during 2020 and at an increased rate of 20%. [18659/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 699. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of increasing the funding to the existing sustainability fund by 10%. [18660/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 702. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of the wages portion of the ECCE scheme. [18989/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 703. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of the non-wages portion of the ECCE scheme. [18990/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Costs (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 704. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the portion of childcare costs that is made up by fees. [19048/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Childcare Scheme (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 707. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of increasing the subsidy under the affordable childcare scheme from €20 to €100 per child, per week. [18222/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 708. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost if the State were to provide by way of direct payment to childcare providers the money necessary to fund the sector, such as pay increases to the living wage of €11.90 per hour for current level 5 childcare staff working in the sector. [18226/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 709. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of increasing by 15% funding for the access inclusion model. [18227/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 710. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of increasing the higher and lower capitation grants by €5, €6, €7, €8, €9 and €10, respectively, by week, for the ECCE scheme in 2019 if it is introduced in September 2020; and the estimated full-year cost. [18228/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 711. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated additional cost in 2019 of increasing the universal minimum subsidy across the affordable childcare scheme if the minimum targeted subsidy is increased so as never to be below the universal subsidy, in 50 cent intervals up to an additional €4.50 reaching €5.00, assuming a start date of September 2020; the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 712. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of restoring the school completion programme to 2010 levels. [18230/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 713. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of the reinstatement of the childminding advisory service. [18231/20]