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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Education Policy (24 Nov 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 537. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available for children diagnosed as gifted; and if she will consider adding gifted children to the diagnosis that enables carers and parents to apply for the domiciliary care allowance (details supplied). [38373/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Nov 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 619. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the supports available for parents to pay childcare fees during a period of self-isolation (details supplied). [38122/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Qualifications (24 Nov 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 620. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childminder learner fund grants awarded to childminders; the number of applications his Department has received; and the breakdown of the funding provided for 2018, 2019 and 2020. [38127/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Nov 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 854. To ask the Minister for Health if at least seven days’ notice of the type of restrictions that may come into effect as Ireland emerges from level 5 at the start of December 2020 will be considered. [38358/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (24 Nov 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 883. To ask the Minister for Health if IVF is available through the public hospital system for a medical card patient. [38517/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (24 Nov 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: Apologies have been received from Deputy John Paul Phelan and Senator Erin McGreehan. Before we begin, I request that members sit only in the permitted seats and in front of available microphones to ensure they are heard. This is important as not doing so can cause serious problems for broadcasting, editorial and sound staff. I remind members to please maintain social distance all times...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care and Complaints Process: Tusla (24 Nov 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: The witnesses are addressing the committee from meeting room B in LH2000. I welcome Mr. Gloster and his colleagues, Ms Kate Duggan, national director of services and integration, Mr. Pat Smyth, director of finance, and Mr. Ger Brophy, chief social worker. I thank the witnesses for providing an overview of the functions of the organisation for the information of members of the committee....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care and Complaints Process: Tusla (24 Nov 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Mr. Gloster. We can hear him very well but, unfortunately, the screen seems to have frozen. Could he perhaps try turning off the camera and then turning it back on, the age-old solution to all technological problems? Aha! There we go. That is excellent. We could hear him perfectly, just to reassure him of that. I will now open the floor to Members. Our first speaker is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care and Complaints Process: Tusla (24 Nov 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: I have to move the discussion on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care and Complaints Process: Tusla (24 Nov 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: Really briefly. I will have to ask for a written response because three other members are waiting to speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care and Complaints Process: Tusla (24 Nov 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: I can let members back in if there is time at the end. We are moving on to Senator Ruane.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care and Complaints Process: Tusla (24 Nov 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: I will ask one or two really brief questions. I know Deputy Cathal Crowe would like to come back in as well. With regard to the new money allocated in this year's budget, about which some people have spoken, is it possible for us to get a breakdown of the €61 million? I appreciate the witnesses may not have that with them today but what is the plan as to how to spend that additional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care and Complaints Process: Tusla (24 Nov 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: That is fine. It would be our intention to have ongoing engagement with Tusla anyway. I thank Mr. Gloster, Ms Duggan, Mr. Smyth and Mr. Brophy for appearing today via video link. It is a different experience for us all but we are getting used to it. We look forward to ongoing engagement with the witnesses over the lifetime of this committee. I propose that we publish Mr. Gloster's...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (25 Nov 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 157. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the means by which the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation is contacting witnesses that gave testimony to it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38942/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (25 Nov 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 228. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that trials and pilot programmes in a number of countries, including the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands and the United States, have shown that lung cancer screening can increase early detection of the disease and thereby improve mortality; and his plans to introduce a lung cancer screening programme...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Electronic Cigarettes (25 Nov 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 229. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the findings (details supplied) of a recent Health Research Board report, published on 12 October 2020; and his plans to introduce stricter regulation on the sale and use of e-cigarettes. [39035/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Renewal Schemes (1 Dec 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the regeneration plan, Project Carlow 2040: A Vision for Regeneration, launched recently by Carlow County Council and the local enterprise office and supported by local business groups in Carlow town; and if he will engage with and agree to meet local Deputies and business representatives...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (1 Dec 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 531. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children that have applied for an ECCE overage exemption; the number of children whose applications have been successful; and the number of children that have been unsuccessful for the overage exemption by county in tabular form. [39823/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (1 Dec 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 588. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied). [39824/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (1 Dec 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 676. To ask the Minister for Health if developmental checks on babies by public health nurses are proceeding under current Covid-19 restrictions in counties Carlow and Kilkenny. [39822/20]