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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Jun 2020)

Verona Murphy: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been further development on the summer development programme which will serve as an alternative to the July provision in 2020. [10051/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Reserve (9 Jun 2020)

Verona Murphy: 220. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Garda Reserve programme will be reopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9936/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Jun 2020)

Verona Murphy: 610. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to commit to a clear set of guidelines which will allow the childcare sector to return to work safely and as soon as possible. [10047/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (9 Jun 2020)

Verona Murphy: 611. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the criteria to become a member of the advisory group established for the childcare sector. [10046/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (9 Jun 2020)

Verona Murphy: 612. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the continuity of funding for the access and inclusion model will be confirmed. [10049/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Jun 2020)

Verona Murphy: 631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pandemic unemployment payment of €350 will be suspended in view of the fact it was a 12-week temporary payment; and if not, the length of time it will be extended for. [10052/20]

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Verona Murphy: They are less than 1% of the social welfare recipients.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Verona Murphy: May I take this opportunity to thank the Minister for all the work she has done over the years? I will be sorry to see her go and wish her all the best in the future. With all the talk of Estimates, once again it is a 96-page document which we received quite late yesterday. Given that we are in the middle of a pandemic and we are not going to be able to debate it, the Regional...

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Verona Murphy: The Minister might be able to inform me of what that is, if I send her correspondence.

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Verona Murphy: I do not accept what the Minister is saying about a subset of advisers.

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Verona Murphy: What the Minister said originally was that the sector picked the advisory group. She is now telling us that the advisory group was picked from some section that was already there advising Government, which means the Federation of Early Childhood Providers was never considered in the first place. What is important and what I would like the Minister to note, particularly on behalf of...

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Verona Murphy: In that case, I would like the Minister, for transparency, to commit to providing the actual criteria that were required for being a member of the advisory group. Will she commit to that?

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Verona Murphy: Even if the Minister did not, her Department would have done so.

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Verona Murphy: I will have to write to the Minister to seek to have this matter clarified in writing. There certainly seems to be some consternation about why this particular group is being excluded. Early childcare providers and educators play an important role in children's development and provide valuable support for families and young children, particularly those in the access and inclusion model,...

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Verona Murphy: I am referring to the accession and inclusion model provision, in respect of which the contracts were pulled a week after closure.

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Minister. The many Wexford childcare providers I have been in touch with have all voiced their concern as to the overbearing administration of the multiple-agency inspection framework. A bigger concern is the speculation that the Department of Children and Youth Affairs may be abolished by a new Government at a time when the sector requires a comprehensive streamlining of the...

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Verona Murphy: I wish the Minister well in her future, whatever that may be. I am sure it will be such that we will come across one another again. Throughout this crisis many parents and families in Wexford have expressed to me just how they truly miss daily interactions with their childcare centres. They have expressed huge regard and respect for the profession, valuing these relationships as an...

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Verona Murphy: Can the Minister note the urgency?

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Minister. I must beg to differ with her on an issue already broached with her by some of my colleagues, namely, the advisory group and the acceptance of the Federation of Early Childhood Providers. The issue here is that none of my Wexford constituent providers was contacted in regard to who should join the advisory group. The Minister will find that Seas Suas which, I am...

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Verona Murphy: The Federation of Early Childhood Providers.