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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: I will finish to this point and move on to the next question then. This is not normal for the simple reason that these children are the ones who are most in need and they thrive on routine and early intervention. Part of it is that those parents are hugely frustrated and they need to get their children back into it. It is the childcare providers who are getting the brunt of this because...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: Does the Department believe that there is merit in the temporary wage support scheme being put on a permanent footing as a new model in the context of childcare? It would reduce the cost to parents and ensure staff earn a decent wage. I am sure this was Dr. Lynch's concern on 13 March. I remember ringing him on that particular day to ask what the difference was between what the shortfall...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: Everybody has touched on insurance. When did the Department know that the insurers would not cover front-line workers as part of phase 1 of our roadmap?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Ms McNally very much for being very honest in that. It is important to know the position. I am going to delve into something that I suppose many new Deputies would not be aware of, namely, how complex the whole childcare sector is. Deputy Funchion is here with me. We sat on the Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs in the previous Dáil. We know exactly how...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: That would be greatly appreciated. I am hearing - and Deputy Colm Burke said it earlier - that they are having problems logging on to the system. They feel they are being left out. We need to have joined-up thinking. If the Department could look at the model of including everybody, then we could go in the right direction. I thank the Acting Chairman for his leniency.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: I shall follow on from where Deputy Cullinane finished talking about the costing of the entire model. I ask the witnesses to correct me if I am wrong about the following. Did it cost €150 million all-inclusive for everything to be paid for the 11 weeks? If so, does that mean, if one multiplies it out, a fully funded public childcare model, without fees coming in, would cost the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Ms McNally.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 Jun 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has an input into whether drivers over 70 years of age can operate Bus Éireann school contracts on routes which are operated by contractors; his plans to extend the age limit to 75 years of age; if the issue has been raised with his Department to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11238/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (16 Jun 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is the school that is deemed the employer of a teacher as opposed to his Department; if his Department is deemed the paymaster as opposed to the employer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11622/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: 312. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if post mortems have been suspended during the Covid-19 crisis; if so, the date on which post mortems ceased; when they will recommence; if persons can request a post mortem to be carried out on a family member who has been buried; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11147/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (16 Jun 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: 357. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases of domestic violence that have been reported to An Garda Síochána each month in 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11148/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (16 Jun 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: 358. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the additional resources made available by his Department in tackling the increase in cases of domestic violence by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11152/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (16 Jun 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: 740. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the epidemiological report into the discovery of atypical BSE in a cow in County Tipperary will be finalised; when his attention was drawn to the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10631/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Exports (16 Jun 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: 741. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when beef exports to China will recommence; the estimated financial loss due to the suspension of exports; the discussions he has had with Chinese officials regarding the suspension of exports; if he has meetings scheduled with Chinese officials about the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10632/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: 904. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which the verification processes will be implemented as outlined in the temporary wage subsidy childcare scheme; the estimated amount that will be recouped from same; the reason the guidelines regarding verification were updated; the purpose for which the funds will be used; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: 973. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to support those working in the photography and videography industry whose businesses have been wiped out due to Covid-19 restrictions and numerous cancelled events as a result; if she will extend supports to such sectors in view of the fact they will be slow to recover to return to some sense of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (16 Jun 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: 1008. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of farmers who have been granted the pandemic unemployment payment since it was introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11149/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (9 Jun 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: 39. To ask the Minister for Finance the expenditure on the temporary wage subsidy scheme in respect of childcare providers and staff in each week since its establishment in tabular form. [9872/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (9 Jun 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for blended learning for primary school and secondary school pupils for the recommencement of the 2020/2021 academic year in September 2020; the ratio of days in school to online learning at home there will be; if children with special educational needs that are better suited to the in-school routine will be given preference to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Preparations (9 Jun 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: 280. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans and the plans of the agencies under her remit to minimise the impact of Brexit on the supply of medicines; the engagement she has had on the matter with the European Union; the details of discussions she is having on the matter with her counterparts in the UK Government; the measures she plans to put in place to help...