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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Years Sector (8 Sep 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: This question relates to the overage exemption for the ECCE programme and asks the Minister to give some explanation for the high level of refusals for this exemption, which causes a great deal of stress and anxiety for families looking to take it up.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Years Sector (8 Sep 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the Minister. Is it the case then that once the two years is completed, regardless of the other circumstances, that child will not be eligible for the overage exemption? I could be wrong but until now, that was not my understanding of it. I thought it was supposed to be available mainly for children who might have additional needs or who might be struggling. As we all know, the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Years Sector (8 Sep 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: I raised this question because a huge number of people contacted us in recent weeks about it. I have often dealt with queries about the overage exemption and I have to say that, to date, I do not know one person who has got it. I might have been unlucky with the cases I have been dealing with, in that people have not got it. It seems to be the case that if it is available parents feel they...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Attendance (8 Sep 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 22. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if schools will still be required to submit biannual student absence reports to Tusla for student absenteeism over the 20-day limit; and if he will consider an exemption due to the public health emergency that includes illness and or suspected contact with a person with Covid-19 which would require a period of self-isolation. [22336/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Attendance (8 Sep 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. My apologies as I thought that a cleaning session was under way and I was unsure as to whether I should come into the Chamber or not. These are the joys of Covid-19. My first question relates to the Tusla rule relating to the 20-day limit. Will the Minister consider even a temporary exemption due to the public health emergency that includes illness...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Attendance (8 Sep 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the Minister and the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I welcome this answer because I have been contacted by many parents about their concerns on this issue. Everybody wants to do the right thing and this is a nervous and anxious time. It is also a good time to see the schools reopening and for parents to see children return, which I welcome as a parent. There are concerns about trying to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Attendance (8 Sep 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: I will make a brief response because, in fairness, the question has been answered. I understand why that rule is there and I generally support it because many children have the potential to fall through the cracks and this rule is in place to identify that. Given that we are in such strange and unusual times it is good to see that a common sense approach, something I often refer to in this...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (8 Sep 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 55. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the final report of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes will be published in view of the fact the report for survivors has been delayed several times. [22321/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Sep 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 57. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the supports in place for childcare providers to continue to operate after-school care during the Covid-19 public health emergency. [22324/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Undefined (8 Sep 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 436. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding or public money is allocated to an organisation (details supplied); and if so, if a breakdown of same in each of the past five years will be provided. [22297/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Reports (8 Sep 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 800. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when he plans to publish the Crowe Report. [22705/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (8 Sep 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 802. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding being allocated to the childcare sustainability fund; and the breakdown of the spend for the new sustainability fund announced 24 July 2020. [21192/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency (8 Sep 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 804. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of babies under ten days old have been taken into care in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020. [21317/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency (8 Sep 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 805. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of newborn babies taken under the age of ten days old for each of the Tusla 17 service areas. [21318/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency (8 Sep 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 806. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of mothers of children in foster care that have died in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and the number for each of the Tusla 17 service areas. [21319/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Community Childcare Subvention Programme (8 Sep 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 813. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children registered on CCSP including the universal scheme in 2019 to 2020 that were then registered on ECCE for 2020 to 2021 and were not on a scheme from 16 August 2020 to 24 August 2020. [21678/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Childcare Scheme (8 Sep 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 814. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the average time to award a CHICK for a targeted subsidy in that month; the longest time to award a CHICK; the number of awards that took more than one week to process; and the number of those delayed awards that were service providers that paid the full amount due, that is, paid from the date the child started in their service. [21679/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Sep 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 1330. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria for a patient to be provided with the xolair injection (details supplied). [22144/20]

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: I refer to the various campaign groups we regularly see advocating, which mainly comprise parents who advocate on behalf of their own children with additional needs. In particular I mention Enough is Enough: Every Voice Counts, and at this stage everybody knows the excellent work it does. I will also reference the AsIAm survey. It is good that we have a Minister of State with...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the witnesses. I acknowledge the nervousness and worry of parents and students over the past weeks as schools have started back. I also want to focus on the positives. It is good to see them interacting with their friends and maybe getting back to some sort of normality. A large number of schools have done their very best over the past while. There have been teething problems, and...