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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2019)

Colm Brophy: The Minister agreed, or commented, at our last meeting that the monthly meetings of the oversight group between the Department of Health and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform would be public. I refer to the monitoring group. That information is subject to the Freedom of Information Act, so those meetings might as well be public. I agree with Deputy Burton.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2019)

Colm Brophy: It is an amazing situation that one Department - and I know the amount is one third of what it was last year - cannot manage a budget. It begs some of the questions raised. I am conscious that we are bang on coming up to 4.30 p.m. I thank all of the members of the committee involved in the questioning. I also thank the members of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council for coming in to us for...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Plaques (17 Dec 2019)

Colm Brophy: 786. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a granite stone can be placed at the famine commemoration site at the Custom House, Dublin 1 similar to the commemoration stones which are in place at eleven sites; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52756/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (17 Dec 2019)

Colm Brophy: 787. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the location and date the national famine commemoration event will take place in 2020; the reason the location is not announced further in advance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52778/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (18 Dec 2019)

Colm Brophy: 149. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if breastfeeding and lactation breaks or paid reduction in working hours for breastfeeding mothers of 104 weeks will be ensured across the public service. [53759/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (18 Dec 2019)

Colm Brophy: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding provided to higher education in each of the years 2017 to 2020 by capital and current. [53758/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Data (18 Dec 2019)

Colm Brophy: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of expanding the DEIS programme in order to cover 50% more children. [53761/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home School Community Liaison Scheme (18 Dec 2019)

Colm Brophy: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of the home school liaison programme. [53762/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (18 Dec 2019)

Colm Brophy: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing the number of pupils which a small school requires to retain or recruit a teacher by one and two pupils, respectively. [53763/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Excellence Fund (18 Dec 2019)

Colm Brophy: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding provided in budget 2020 for the school excellence fund. [53764/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Data (18 Dec 2019)

Colm Brophy: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to increase the management supports available to special schools by providing for the appointment of additional administrative deputy principals. [53765/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Data (18 Dec 2019)

Colm Brophy: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of ensuring that each special school has access to behavioural therapists. [53766/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (18 Dec 2019)

Colm Brophy: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of investment in teacher continuous professional development. [53767/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early Childhood Care and Education (18 Dec 2019)

Colm Brophy: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that exist for naíonraí; and the cost of increasing such supports by 5%. [53769/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Strategies (18 Dec 2019)

Colm Brophy: 233. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the National Space Strategy for Enterprise 2019-2025 and its goals. [53757/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (18 Dec 2019)

Colm Brophy: 423. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the supports that exist for naíonraí; and the estimated cost of increasing the supports by 5%. [53768/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (18 Dec 2019)

Colm Brophy: 453. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of progressively rolling out the hot school meals programme to a further 35,000 schoolchildren each year on the same basis as that agreed in budget 2020. [53760/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (18 Dec 2019)

Colm Brophy: 480. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports that exist for naíonraí; and the estimated cost of increasing those supports by 5%. [53770/19]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by Department of Health Officials (19 May 2020)

Colm Brophy: There has been a second speaker from Fianna Fáil. Does the sequence not mean that a Fine Gael speaker is due to ask questions now?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by Department of Health Officials (19 May 2020)

Colm Brophy: I thank the Chairman. I endorse the comments of my colleague. I thank Mr. Breslin and the Chief Medical Officer for their service. I want to address the Department specifically in my first question. Allowing for Mr. Breslin's opening statement and the preceding media coverage of it, we are facing into a crisis that may last for years rather than months. I want to comment on one...