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

Kathleen Funchion: 714. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated additional cost of increasing the learner fund to allow all childcare workers currently holding level 5 qualifications to progress to level 6 from September 2020. [18232/20]

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

Kathleen Funchion: 715. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated additional cost of increasing the learner fund to a level which would allow 50% of childcare workers currently holding level 6 qualifications to progress to level 7 from September 2020. [18233/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Support Payments (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 716. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of rolling out a baby box scheme similar to those in Finland and Scotland in which the estimated cost of the box and contents would be €170 each. [18234/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 717. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated additional cost of the roll-out of Aistear across the early years sector. [18235/20]

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

Kathleen Funchion: 718. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated additional cost of the roll-out of Aistear across the childminding sector. [18236/20]

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

Kathleen Funchion: 719. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated first and full-year cost of employing an extra 26 aftercare workers. [18237/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 721. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of continuing the wage subsidy scheme for childcare workers at 85%. [18600/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 722. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount spent on the wages top-up for childcare workers during Covid-19. [18601/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 723. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount spent on the one-off reopening grant for centre-based providers. [18602/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 724. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount spent to date on childminder reopening grants. [18603/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 725. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount allocated by county out of the €75 million grant to open early learning and childcare services. [18604/20]

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

Kathleen Funchion: 738. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the finding of the Crowe report that the wage bill comprises an average of 70% of the total costs of the childcare sector is inclusive of ECCE-only providers or whether the referenced cost breakdown relates only to non-ECCE provision. [19108/20]

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

Kathleen Funchion: 740. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if staff salaries represent 70% of the costs of the childcare sector; his views on whether this is 70% of providers' costs; and if not, if it is 70% of all costs, including costs that are covered by State funding, in view of comments by his official at the Oireachtas Special Committee on Covid-19 Response hearing on childcare on 23 June...

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

Kathleen Funchion: 739. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a breakdown of the €338.576 million provided for ECCE and AIM preschool programmes in line B.3 of the Revised Estimate for 2020, including ECCE pay and ECCE non-pay, AIMS and so on. [19109/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 750. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider the eligibility criteria for the extended parental leave to include all parents affected by the lockdown, even if their children are born outside of the specified dates, that is, before 1 November, particularly those parents who were due to return to work in the lockdown period but could not due to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Social Workers Recruitment (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 826. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of employing an additional 50 social workers. [18662/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 827. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of recruiting an additional ten administrative support staff for social workers. [18663/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Aftercare Services (28 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 828. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of recruiting an additional ten after care workers. [18664/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (30 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 998. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 877 of 14 July 2020, the total income received by childcare providers from the State in 2018 and 2019, respectively by month. [20043/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (30 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 999. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total income received by childcare providers by ECCE and non-ECCE funding, respectively, in 2018 and 2019. [20044/20]