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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (19 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 598. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the basis on which she seeks to ignore the Labour Relations Commission recommendation on pensions for community employment supervisors; her views on whether the introduction of auto enrolment has no bearing on the community employment workers recommendation; her further views on whether the State needs to take the direction...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (19 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 665. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there have been new affordable housing developments in County Kilkenny in the past ten years. [47574/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (19 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 666. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are council-owned lands in County Kilkenny that could be identified as suitable for affordable housing. [47575/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (19 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 667. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to roll out affordable housing in County Kilkenny in the next two years; and the details of the plans. [47576/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (14 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 165. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in State care that are the children of mothers who grew up in State care. [46955/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Data (14 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 166. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the percentage of children in foster care that come from a Traveller background. [46956/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (12 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 495. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which the allocated €1.5 million in budget 2020 for the 121 family resource centres will be divided; if the amount allocated is in addition to core funding; and if it is planned for certain programmes that will be rolled out within the family resource centres. [46078/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: Before I address Mr. Gloster, I want to note that I had reason to contact Mr. Lee over the summer and I thank him for his assistance with the matter I raised with him. I have opened with that because I genuinely believe I am the type of person who acknowledges work when it is done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: Our guests may perceive some of my comments as negative, but I see them as constructive criticism. I do not have a huge amount of confidence in Tusla as it currently exists. I am just being 100% honest. It is a very toxic organisation. I am glad Mr. Gloster used the word "defensive" because that has been my experience and that of people who contact me. Part of our duty on this committee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: I will be careful with the second set of questions. If I am steering off course, the Chairman might put me back on track.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: Is there any independent review or appeal process in place within Tusla if somebody is not happy with the outcome of a case? Take the example of a birth mother who has restricted supervised access to her child for maybe one hour a week. I will group the questions together if that is okay. Is there any independent process in place at the moment which would allow such a case to be reviewed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: Okay. That might be easier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: That is good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: That is fair enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: I know that. I am just interested in Mr. Gloster's opinion on it really.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: Will I go on to the next set-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: On the other issue, we had a discussion at the committee during the summer and there was a lot of talk about closing facilities and whether there was the power to do that. Is there ever a situation, and what might that situation be, whereby if a decision were taken to close a crèche, it would be the case that if somebody had a criminal conviction, he or she could then get to a situation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: Parents feel very disconnected from this. They have said they used the numbers provided the last time but felt that they were not really getting anywhere. That is the big issue and that is why I have raised the matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: Perhaps there could be a way of following up on that part of it

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Mr. Lee.