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Residential Institutions Statutory Fund: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I commend Deputy Connolly and her colleagues in Independents 4 Change on bringing this motion to the House. This is an important issue of concern to many of us. As stated by Deputy Nolan, Sinn Féin supports the call for measures to include an immediate review of the operations of Caranua and for negotiations between the Department and the OPW on an appropriate solution that will not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) was not allocated with an EAL teacher in 2017 in view of the fact that the school requested and was previously allocated one EAL teacher for the previous three consecutive school years; and the reason this decision changed in 2017 in view of the fact that there has been no change to the school's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Goods Regulation (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 434. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Macushield and Artelac medications are not being made available for medical card holders. [24041/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Staff (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 655. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if recommendations in her Department's sustainability audits of community services recommend that services cut pay to child care staff; and if so, the capacity in which, the amount involved and the circumstances in which this was decided. [24120/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Costs (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 656. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost under the proposed universal subsidy of increasing the €80 per month subsidy in €20 intervals up to the amount of €600 for all eligible parents. [24165/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 657. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding for every level provided within the AIM programme in tabular form. [24166/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 658. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the breakdown of level 7 funding between the 10 and 15 hours options allowed within the AIM programme; the amount provided for the total 10-hour allocation and total 15-hour allocation nationally; and the number of children each of those total amounts provide for. [24167/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 659. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for a review of the early years child care sector; and the Government body that will conduct the review. [24168/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Data (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 660. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost per year of the ACS in the event that the wage rate for educators is revised from the current proposed wage rate for level 5 educators to €11.50 an hour, €13.00 an hour for level 6 educators and €14.75 an hour for level 7 educators. [24169/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 674. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to parliamentary question number 368 of 12 April 2017, the costs of the Tusla early years inspections, the Department of Education and Skills early years inspections and the Pobal compliance visits per year, in tabular form. [24564/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Data (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 678. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children under three years of age her Department estimates will take up both private and community crèche-based child care in September 2017; and the number of children under three years of age that attended both private and community crèche-based services from September 2016 to date in 2017. [24762/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (18 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Apologies have been received from Deputies Maureen O'Sullivan, Brendan Smith and Sean Sherlock and Senator Mark Daly. As I said at the last meeting, we do not have Northern Ireland MPs present because the Westminster Parliament has been dissolved. We will not have any Northern Ireland members until 8 June. Today, we will hear from Mr. Mark Bassett, barrister-at-law, and Professor Colin...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Voting Rights in Northern Ireland: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I welcome our guests, Mr. Mark Bassett and Professor Colin Harvey. They will address our meeting today on the topic of voting rights. We will invite both witnesses to give their opening statements and then we will take some questions from the committee. Before we begin, I remind members of the committee, guests and those in the Visitors Gallery to ensure that their mobile phones, tablets...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Voting Rights in Northern Ireland: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Whichever way the witnesses would like to proceed is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Voting Rights in Northern Ireland: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank both witnesses for their presentations. We will have questions from members now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Voting Rights in Northern Ireland: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Professor Harvey.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Voting Rights in Northern Ireland: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I have some questions. The part that is relevant to us as the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement is voting rights in the North, but are the witnesses also advocating for voting rights for people in, say, America and other countries where Irish citizens reside? Is it just for presidential elections or something that should be extended to a general election...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Voting Rights in Northern Ireland: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the delegates for their contributions on what is a very interesting topic. I do not know if we can give a date for the referendum, but as the next presidential election is due to be held in November 2018, I imagine it would have to be held before then. It will probably be held early next year, if we are to speculate. I thank the delegates for coming. Their presentations were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Findings of HIQA Statutory Foster Care Service Inspection Reports: Discussion (17 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Ms Dunnion for the presentation. It is, as Senator Freeman stated, scary, but it also would make one very angry. HIQA has a reputation that it can go in and potentially close down organisations that are not operating to standard, and yet we have a situation where 465 children have no assigned social worker and nothing can be done about it. I wonder where HIQA sees the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Standards (11 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 17. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department has given consideration to a streamlining of the inspections system for the early years sector in order to decrease the amount of administrative work carried out by services. [22310/17]