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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (11 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 30. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to tackle the lack of availability of early years service provision to those under three years of age; and the work being undertaken by her Department to ensure that there is not a monopoly of early childhood care and education provision in the services for babies under three years of age. [22311/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Birth Data (10 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 194. To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies that were delivered prematurely in 2016; and the number of babies that have been delivered prematurely to date in 2017. [22231/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (9 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 661. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of admissions of women to a centre (details supplied) in the past ten years. [22006/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (9 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 662. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children or babies of women attending a centre (details supplied) in the past ten year period who have been taken into care by social services as a result of being deemed at high risk. [22007/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Deputy Brendan Smith and Senators Frances Black and Denis Landy have sent their apologies for their absence. The UK Parliament has been dissolved so there are no Northern Ireland MPs in attendance. On behalf of myself and the committee, I thank them for their work on the committee over the last year and wish anybody who is contesting the election the best of luck. As Pat Doherty MP is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Acht na Gaeilge: Engagement with Conradh na Gaeilge (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Tá fáilte roimh na finnéithe go léir. I apologise that that is probably the extent of my Gaeilge. The witnesses are very welcome and we are really glad that they are here with us today. I know that we have at least one Gaeilgeoir on the committee and possibly others with better Irish than I have myself. I give a very sincere welcome to Mr. Ciarán Mac Giolla...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Acht na Gaeilge: Engagement with Conradh na Gaeilge (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I will open it up to questions. I call Deputy Breathnach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Acht na Gaeilge: Engagement with Conradh na Gaeilge (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I will pass over to the witnesses, but I will first ask a question myself. I hope that the witnesses do not mind if I ask it in English. Deputy Breathnach spoke about the language diminishing here in the Twenty-six Counties, yet there seems to be a huge demand for children to go to Gaelscoileanna. In my own constituency and in my own county, there is at least double what the school can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Acht na Gaeilge: Engagement with Conradh na Gaeilge (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Did Senator Ó Donnghaile wish to come back in on that, or was it on something else?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Acht na Gaeilge: Engagement with Conradh na Gaeilge (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Do any other members of the committee wish to add anything?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Acht na Gaeilge: Engagement with Conradh na Gaeilge (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Is the Deputy referring to the proposal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Acht na Gaeilge: Engagement with Conradh na Gaeilge (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: There is no difficulty with that. I would just like to say that I can hear, to a certain extent, the frustration in the witnesses' voices. I can appreciate that. I think it was Mr. de Spáinn who noted it has been nearly 20 years since the Good Friday Agreement. Clearly we are the committee tasked with trying to ensure the Agreement gets fully implemented, so it is no difficulty for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Acht na Gaeilge: Engagement with Conradh na Gaeilge (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I concur with what Mr. Mac Giolla Bhéin is saying. We completely agree and Mr. Mac Ghiolla Bhéin definitely has the support of this committee. In respect of what he has said about some of his work suffering, I think he is doing excellent work. There has been good promotion. I would have loved the opportunity to have attended a Gaelscoil. I have at least had the opportunity to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Acht na Gaeilge: Engagement with Conradh na Gaeilge (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Mr. Mac Giolla Bhéin. I encourage members to attend that on Saturday, 20 May. I thank the witnesses for coming in and for their presentations. We have no problem endorsing the proposal and we are hopeful we will follow up with them in respect of progress, and not in 20 years.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Maternity Benefit Data (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 128. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the full combined cost of increasing maternity benefit by €20, €30, €40 and €50 per week while extending maternity benefit by two, three, four, five and six weeks, in tabular form. [21167/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Staff (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 161. To ask the Minister for Health the hourly cost for ten HSE therapists employed as part of level 6 of the access and inclusion model, AIM, for children with additional needs taking part in the free pre-school year. [21163/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Staff (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 162. To ask the Minister for Health the duties of a HSE therapist working as part of level 6 in AIM; the number of hours a therapist spends with a child per day; and the number of days a week. [21164/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Staff (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 163. To ask the Minister for Health if a HSE therapist working with a child as part of AIM works consistently with the same child over a period of time or if the therapist changes every visit. [21165/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 263. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons (details supplied) with additional needs registered with early years services. [21166/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: City and County Child Care Committees: Discussion (3 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I have tied in with our local CCC and was on its board years ago. I was the ICTU representative about ten years in Kilkenny so I know a lot about the work done by the CCCs. My first question is about resources and might be difficult to answer. Do the witnesses feel the CCCs are adequately resourced given that there have been so many new...