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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (1 May 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress his Department has made in respect of the implementation of the Cush report regarding part-time and fixed-term employment in third level institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18969/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (1 May 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the establishment of an adjudicator system to hear disputes arising from the implementation of the Cush report as requested by his Department in 2017. [18970/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Contracts (1 May 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress his Department has made in respect of the implementation of the Ward report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18971/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (1 May 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which his Department plans to deal with the provision of a sports hall for a school (details supplied); and the details of project preparatory or pre-planning works carried out to date in addition to likely project timelines should a planning application be approved. [19030/18]

Nurses' and Midwives' Pay and Recruitment: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I commend my colleague, Deputy O'Reilly, on her excellent ongoing work on this issue. Nurses and midwives play a very positive role in the health services. They are at the front line and often deal with very difficult situations. Nurses are sometimes expected to be almost social workers and counsellors in addition to their healthcare role, since people often open up more to nurses or to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I will begin by apologising for being late. I thank all of the speakers for their presentations. I would be completely opposed to any sort of live streaming of classes. As the mother of two boys, I would absolutely refuse to send my children to school if that was the level we reached. That is completely unacceptable. Students need to have a teacher to whom they can speak if they have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: No, I just wanted to make those points.

Topical Issue Debate: Water Pollution (19 Apr 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: It is a simple request. We are asking the Minister to use his offices to insist that Inland Fisheries Ireland would meet this group. The society is an established group and its members have spoken to their local representative, which is not uncommon, but I cannot get any indication from Inland Fisheries Ireland that it intends to organise a meeting. I accept that this is the area of...

Topical Issue Debate: Water Pollution (19 Apr 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I am glad to have the opportunity to raise this issue on behalf of the Barrow River Piscatorial Society. I thank my colleagues, Deputies Martin Ferris and Martin Kenny, for their support in this regard. I have been dealing with the society for over a year. It is very active in the community and has very serious concerns about the mainly commercial pollution of the River Barrow and the...

Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: We will support the Bill. I commend Deputy Ruth Coppinger and her colleagues for bringing it forward. The ad hocnature of the SPHE and RSE programmes is failing to fully equip young people with positive and informed outlooks on their sexual health, self-care, body image, relationships, gender identity, contraception, consent and sexuality. Now, more than ever, it is very hard to be a young...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I will make a brief point. I am glad the witnesses came before the committee to tell those stories, one of which has been going on for 13 years. There is nothing like hearing at first hand the circumstances in which people find themselves. This is an issue the committee should prioritise because there is little point in members talking about the benefits of education and the great...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: It is in the public domain already.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: My apologies, but I had to step out of the meeting earlier and missed what the witnesses said. The point I was making earlier to the schools representatives is that there is no plausible excuse for children being taught in substandard schools in this day and age. Obviously prefabs are a temporary solution in certain schools but the conditions the schools representatives were describing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (17 Apr 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school build that a company (details supplied) was working on; the implications the examinership of the company will have for the build in terms of potential delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16637/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (17 Apr 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools can offer core curriculum subjects as alternatives for students that opt out of religious instruction (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16798/18]

Affordable Housing: Statements (29 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: That is right. We will take four minutes, three minutes and three minutes, respectively. I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate. I did not prepare a speech when I was thinking about what I wanted to say because, to a certain extent, when we come in here and talk about housing, the housing crisis and affordable housing, I feel like it is Groundhog Day. I do not know how...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (29 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 2. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the review of autism spectrum disorder, ASD, places available to children in both primary and post-primary schools in counties Carlow and Kilkenny, as promised on 1 February 2018. [14557/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (29 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: What is the timeframe for the review of ASD places available to children in primary and post-primary schools in my constituency, Carlow-Kilkenny? On the previous occasion on which he took questions, the Minister promised a review in the area and I want to know the progress made in respect of it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (29 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I accept that there has been an increase. When I contacted the Minister regarding one or two specific cases, those places were resolved, which was very welcome for the families involved. Knowing exactly where their children will go to school in September takes the pressure off. They have a place either in a special school or in an ASD unit. However, all the schools with ASD units maintain...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (29 Mar 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I welcome that and I would appreciate getting a more detailed response from the NCSE. One of the schools the Minister mentioned, St. Lachtain's in Freshford, is the only school that provides an ASD preschool. The additional funding it sought was to add an additional room to its preschool. I know the Minister said it, but I missed it. Will that be done by September of this year or is it...