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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (17 Oct 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: If I were to accept the 50% figure which I am more than willing to do, my other concern relates to the recruitment of staff. It is my biggest concern. The Minister's predecessor, former Deputy James Reilly, announced the recruitment of an additional 247 staff in 2015, but if one looks at the figures for the past 18 months, one will see that we are struggling to recruit the necessary staff....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (17 Oct 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 31. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding that will be ring-fenced for the roll-out of mandatory reporting in 2018; her views on whether this will be sufficient; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44020/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (17 Oct 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding that will be ring-fenced for the roll-out of mandatory reporting in 2018, her views on whether this will be sufficient and to make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (17 Oct 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 29. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether the subsidy levels under the single affordable childcare scheme are sufficient to account for the absence of increases to these levels in budget 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44019/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (17 Oct 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: My question is to ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether the subsidy levels under the single affordable childcare scheme are sufficient to account for the absence of increases to these levels in budget 2018, and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (17 Oct 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I welcome what was delivered in the budget for ECCE. Focusing on the affordable childcare scheme, will the Minister confirm what she has started with regard to the affordable childcare scheme, and that our ICT system will be in place for September 2018? I am seeking a commitment from the Minister to have a pathway for that to ensure it will be there. How is the legislative framework...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (17 Oct 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I ask the Minister about ICT in every session. She has said she hopes that it will be there. Is funding the issue? Is it very complex? Is it difficult for one Department to work with three others? Is it that we are introducing a new system that has never been brought in before? Is the Minister looking at the model with regard to the student universal support Ireland, SUSI, system? I am...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Programmes (17 Oct 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 52. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for the ABC programme in 2019; the date by which she anticipates publishing the review of the programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43770/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Programmes (17 Oct 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 510. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for the ABC programme in 2019; the date by which she anticipates publishing the review of the programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43781/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Provision (17 Oct 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 57. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will allocate increased funding to foster care services in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43773/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Provision (17 Oct 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 513. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will allocate increased funding to foster care services in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43784/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Costs (17 Oct 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 63. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the ongoing difficulties in regard to affordability and sustainability in the non-ECCE early years sector; and the reason her Department has not increased the amount of subsidies payable to parents under the single affordable child care scheme in view of these issues. [43769/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Costs (17 Oct 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 509. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the ongoing difficulties in regard to affordability and sustainability in the non-ECCE early years sector; and the reason her Department has not increased the amount of subsidies payable to parents under the single affordable child care scheme in view of these issues. [43780/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Oct 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 363. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for surgery. [43814/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (17 Oct 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 483. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when funding will be allocated to a road (details supplied) in east County Galway. [43820/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Eligibility (17 Oct 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 506. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if flexibility will be given in circumstances in which a family have a child in a creche and it has signed up to the affordable child scheme and the parent works flexible days three days one week and two days the second week but the provider does not allow flexible options and will allow the child sign up for the scheme for only two days...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Crisis Pregnancy and Primary Care: Irish College of General Practitioners (12 Oct 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I have sat and listened to the whole debate, but I want to ask a question in the interests of balance. Do patients in crisis pregnancy situations who choose to have their babies tell their GPs, who are normally their first point of contact afterwards, that they were happy with their decisions?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (12 Oct 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an application to extend the speed limit at the entrances to Abbeyknockmoy along the N63 has been submitted (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43259/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (12 Oct 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the provision which has been put in place to address resurfacing, signage, reducing open space, reducing of the speed limit and downgrading of the old N63 of Annagh Hill, Ballyglunnin, Abbeyknockmoy, County Galway (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43260/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (12 Oct 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the provision which has been put in place to address resurfacing, signage, reducing open space, reducing of the speed limit and downgrading of the old Athenry Road, Annagh Cross, Ballyglunnin, Abbeyknockmoy, County Galway (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43261/17]