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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Would Ms Cadwallader like to comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Mr. Ritchie and Ms Cadwallader.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: On behalf of the committee, I thank all of the delegates for being here today. We believe everybody on all sides needs to see justice and truth. It is unacceptable to us that people have had to campaign for so long just to get information. This is a topic on which the committee is now focused. As I am sure the delegates are aware, the focus of the committee earlier this year and last year...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I do not think there is any issue with that. The British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly is meeting in Liverpool on Sunday. Deputies Brendan Smith and Breathnach and I are members of the assembly and as such we can try to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Coveney, will be coming before the committee around the end of November. Hopefully by that time a number of the proposed series of meetings on this issue will have been held such that we will be in a position to raise some issues with him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the delegates for their attendance today. We will be in touch.

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Last week, thousands of third level students were on the streets outside the Dáil demanding increased investment in education and rejecting a student loans system. While the Government speaks of helping families in need, it has no problem with the ever-increasing cost of third level education becoming a crippling burden on thousands of students and their parents. Astronomical...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (3 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered alternative measures to reduce school book costs via businesses such as a company (details supplied) or other practical methods that would reduce costs for parents. [41482/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Breaches of Fire Safety Standards: Discussion (26 Sep 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I am okay.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (26 Sep 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legislation that his Department is responsible for that puts particular primary or secondary level curriculum on a legislative footing. [40128/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (26 Sep 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to formalise the SPHE curriculum to ensure it is being taught in an inclusive and diverse manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40129/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Sep 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the long-delayed three school campus for Buncrana, County Donegal; if he will meet with a delegation of Donegal Education and Training Board in addition to local teachers and parents to hear their concerns regarding the long delay in progressing this project and the implications for the existing three schools and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Grants (21 Sep 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the participation of a parent in schemes such as Turas Nua is not considered as an eligible payment towards a dependant's special rate of maintenance grant application when applying for this grant. [39949/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (11 Sep 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for a reversal in decision to grant a concessionary ticket for school transport to a person (details supplied) and if he will review this decision. [37574/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Completion Programme (11 Sep 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the most recent figure for school completion rates in DEIS schools. [37692/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Completion Programme (11 Sep 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the most recent national average figure for school completion rates. [37693/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Staff (11 Sep 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current student to staff ratio in institutes of technology. [37695/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (11 Sep 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available to deaf parents of hearing children who study through the medium of Irish in order to assist them at home with their studies; if supports are available from the home tuition department for these families in these circumstances and the application requirements for same; and his views on whether, in circumstances in which...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (11 Sep 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 1633. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the most recent figure for the full-year funding allocated to the school completion programme for DEIS schools. [37694/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Regulation (11 Sep 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 1653. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the purpose of the proposal to submit child care providers' audited accounts to her Department and Pobal agents; the reason a Government body other than the Revenue Commissioners would be granted or need access to the financial information of private individual or self employed businesses; and if she will make a statement on the matter....