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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]

Early Years Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: I did not see the Minister of State's amendment until late this evening. I should know better at this stage but I actually thought that the Government might support my motion because what is contained in it is solutions. It is all done in very serious consultation with the sector, and it was not done overnight. It was not a case of a few phone calls a few days before we decided to put down...

Early Years Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: Vótáil.

Early Years Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: Can we get a copy of it now?

Early Years Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: I do not have my Oireachtas email on my phone and I have to say it is the first I ever heard of the Business Committee agreeing that. I do not mean to interrupt the Minister but it is extremely unusual.

Early Years Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: I will take five minutes and my colleagues will follow. They know the order in which they will speak.

Early Years Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes: — the early years sector has been acutely underfunded for many years and as a result Ireland is ranked the lowest country in the European Union (EU) for investment in this vital area; — this lack of adequate and sustainable funding has ensured fees for parents are amongst the highest in the EU; — that the steep costs...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (21 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 543. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing issue of the difficulty in recruiting suitably qualified support staff for early years settings; his plans to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16624/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (21 Jul 2020)

Kathleen Funchion: 544. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is satisfied there is sufficient capacity in the early years and school-age childcare system in view of the impact that Covid-19 has had on settings; the details of notifications of closures issued to Tusla for early years settings since January 2020 by service type; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16625/20]