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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Childcare Services (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: I am grateful for the opportunity to raise this issue today. I acknowledge that the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, was before the Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs earlier today, where she agreed to make available a programme support payment of, as I understand it, approximately €1,500 to childcare providers. In many cases, insurance costs are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision not to grant temporary accommodation to a school (details supplied) will be reviewed. [53556/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: I welcome the Minister, who is appearing before us at short notice but with potential solutions. I am seeking a greater degree of clarity around the programme support payment of €1,500. I wish to show the Minister examples whereby, notwithstanding the process that providers have been through, in particular providers of long standing who have always been compliant and whose risk...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: We should not overburden the sector to the extent where facilities are being forced to close because their capital and insurance costs are too high and the €1,500 payment is not enough to meet the challenges they face.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: The Minister has stated that, by 28 December, the process will have been gone through.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: I fail to understand how the Minister is going to get through a process where the childcare providers that I represent can interact with Pobal or the county childcare committee to benefit from this grant by-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: So it is not an application process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: Then there is the issue of the current insurance model-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: -----and the need to address the fact that people have received quotes with twofold, fourfold or sixfold increases, as in the three examples to which I can speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: With respect, what the Minister stated does not give any comfort to those providers. There are also those people who have yet to be registered up to June. What can they derive from the process to which the Minister refers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: Did the Minister say 30%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: A provider who is not a member of Early Childhood Ireland paid €550 last year and is now being quoted €2,100. She will pay only €1,500 if she pays €245 to Early Childhood Ireland, but the risk profile of someone who is a member of Early Childhood Ireland does not increase or decrease.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: The Government has skin in the game because the Minister partly funds Early Childhood Ireland. Therefore I believe she has some muscle in this regard with the insurance companies.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will be allowed accommodation to sit their leaving certificate in a separate room due to a medical condition. [52687/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Eligibility (17 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if home tuition hours will be extended for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [52914/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Legislation (17 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: 278. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the nature of the representations received from persons involved in private members clubs; the responses he or the Minister of State with Special Responsibility for Equality and Immigration have made to such representations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53235/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (17 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: 331. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency and non-emergency ambulance call-outs to Great Island, Cobh, County Cork in each of the years 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the median response times as opposed to the mean average for each year; and if an ambulance will be permanently located on Great Island, Cobh, County Cork. [52566/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: 394. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will have their assessment of need carried out. [52910/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport Expenditure (17 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: 395. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on patient transport in the past year in the Kildare West Wicklow CHO7 area; if the amount increased; and the criteria used to select patients for transport. [52911/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency (17 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: 636. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla is now using guidelines of one refuge space per 10,000 persons as opposed to 10,000 women; if a review of refuge spaces in the greater Dublin area is taking place; if so, when the results will be available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52662/19]