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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Implications for Good Friday Agreement of UK Referendum Result (Resumed) (9 Mar 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: On behalf of the committee, I thank Dr. Morrow for coming. We appreciate him being with us and look forward to hearing from him. We will hear his opening statement which will be followed by questions and answers. Members, guests and anyone in the Visitors Gallery should please ensure their mobile phones and tablets are switched off completely for the duration of the meeting as they cause...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Implications for Good Friday Agreement of UK Referendum Result (Resumed) (9 Mar 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Implications for Good Friday Agreement of UK Referendum Result (Resumed) (9 Mar 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Thank you, Dr. Morrow. I invite the members to put forward questions. I call Deputy Breathnach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Implications for Good Friday Agreement of UK Referendum Result (Resumed) (9 Mar 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Thank you. What was excellent in the presentation was the practical suggestions. That is welcome and refreshing. Obviously, we have been dealing with Brexit since last year but specifically in the last number of months because we will be compiling a report on it. It is helpful for us to get practical suggestions, particularly the first point you made about the special status. It is very...

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to Disability Service in the South East and Related Matters): Motion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I hope that after many long years of abandonment by the State, the Health Service Executive and Tusla, Grace will receive the truth and justice she deserves. As previous speakers pointed out, however, the commission of investigation must not be hypocritical by failing to address the cases of other children who were failed and who suffered abuse. It must bring fair retribution for Grace and...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I have a question on subhead B7, area-based childhood programmes. Some people involved in these programmes have a fear their funding will not be continued. Is there a commitment to continue the funding? Is it just for the next year? Is there a timeframe? Does the figure for the general child care programmes include the cost of the new affordable child care scheme?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (8 Mar 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I have a question on programme C. Is there an allowance for the publication and roll-out of the early years strategy?

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Start Programme (7 Mar 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 818. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there is a taskforce for the development of the early years strategy; and if so, the detail of the members of the taskforce, their title and their organisation. [11185/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (7 Mar 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 838. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children that availed of centre based child care, both community and private, in 2016. [12150/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (7 Mar 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 839. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children anticipated to avail of targeted subsidies in the ACS scheme in year one; and the estimated cost for that number. [12151/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (7 Mar 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 840. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children anticipated to avail of the universal subsidy in the ACS in year one; and the estimated total cost for that number. [12152/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (7 Mar 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 841. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of reinstating the childminding advisory service. [12153/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (7 Mar 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 842. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost over a five-year period to increase her Department's agreed threshold of €47,500 of a household's combined income year-on-year for those five budgetary years by €500 per year, therefore, year one increasing the threshold to €48,000, in tabular form; and the total cost over a five year period for...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (28 Feb 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 822. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way applications by persons and registrations and payments to Tusla registered child care providers will work with respect to the targeted subsidy (details supplied). [10220/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Information and Communications Technology (28 Feb 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 823. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the IT system for both the universal and targeted subsidy will be fully automated (details supplied); and if her Department is factoring in a reasonable amount of time to be allowed to services and county child care committees to become familiar with the system themselves prior to it being automated. [10221/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the Chairman. I thank the witnesses for their excellent presentations. They painted a scary picture. The delegation mentioned a strategy and it was touched on by Senator Noone. Who does the ISPCC believe should roll out the strategy? Is it Tusla? There is a question mark over whether people would have the confidence in Tusla to do such work. Does the ISPCC want a digital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: All the questions have been asked and I will not rehearse a group of question that have already been answered. I want to make the point that a lot of people who I and many of the public representatives would deal with are parents who are voluntarily putting their children into care because they know it is best for them for a period of time. It is important to make the point that it is a...

Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: As a member and Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, we have been inviting civic and business groups and political representatives to present to the committee since the Brexit vote was passed. There is cross-party consensus in the committee that there will consequences for the island, not only economically but also politically, what with all of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (14 Feb 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 75. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether the child care settings will be equipped to cope with the roll out of the single affordable child care scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7090/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes (14 Feb 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the number of tourism and hospitality skills training positions that were allocated to the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency in 2015 and 2016. [6817/17]