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Written Answers — Department of Health: Early Intervention Services (9 Jun 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 860. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an appointment for a assessment through the early intervention services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22285/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Jun 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 1010. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the planning permission for a new school (details supplied) in Fermoy, County Cork, will be lodged; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22457/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ombudsman for Children: Presentation (28 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: I thank the Acting Chairman. I welcome Dr. Muldoon and thank him for his presentation. I wish him well in his role. I wish to pass on the apologies of my colleague, Deputy Ó Caoláin. Unfortunately, questions to the Minister for Health are clashing with this meeting and he is on his feet in the Chamber as we speak. Some of the points I wish to raise with Dr. Muldoon have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ombudsman for Children: Presentation (28 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: I want to return to Senator Burke's point on the housing adaption grants. It is a major issue but if one lives in a private house, one accesses that grant differently. One submits the application and one will receive the adaptation grant within a number of months. However, a person living in a local authority house on submitting an application will have to wait ten years for an adaptation...

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: As outlined previously during my party colleagues' contributions, the Government's decision to sell its share in Aer Lingus is a short-sighted move which will create years of uncertainty and economic difficulties for the State. It will create uncertainty for the thousands of workers who work for Aer Lingus or who work peripherally to it in Ireland. A major question mark hangs over the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Data (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 2. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the interdepartmental group which was established by his Department to address the child care crisis is addressing the issue of low wages for early childhood professionals whose work is critical during this key foundation stage of child development; and his views that Government must take responsibility for the issue of training and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Data (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: Before I begin, I want to register my objection to the fact that Question Time to the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs has been cut by 50 minutes this morning on such an important issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Data (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: That said, I want to ask the Minister if the interdepartmental group, which was set up by his Department to address the child care crisis in this State, is addressing the issue of low wages of early childhood professionals whose work is critical during this key foundation stage of child development. Does the Minister believe that the Government must take responsibility for the issue of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Data (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: At a recent meeting of the Committee on Health and Children, a representative from a children's advocacy organisation stated that during the course of their research on the quality of child care in this State, one woman commented that she earned more in her local chipper than she did in her role as a child care worker. It was pointed out that it was common for workers to subsidise their...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Data (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: I am the special rapporteur for the preparation of an all-party Oireachtas Committee report on child care. During the course of that research we were told that for those who are willing and hopeful to upskill, there is simply no incentive to stay as there are no employment benefits. Does the Minister agree that the economics of child care have long been skewed? Amid an absence of...

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: That would be a change.

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: Two Whips?

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Funding (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 19. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, ceasing to fund the Disability Equality Specialist Support Agency on 30 June 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19795/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Remit (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 25. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, is responsible for the care of children with intellectual disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19794/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Bodies (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 26. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a detailed update on the work and meetings of the interdepartmental group established to address the issue of child care and related issues. [19797/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 39. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to have any input or make recommendations, specifically under his remit of the protection of children, to the working group set up by the Department of Justice and Equality which plans to review a range of issues pertaining to asylum seekers and direct provision, which will inevitably include the welfare of children residing in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 40. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when details of the Open Policy Debate on Future Investment in Early Years and School-Age Care and Education Services, which was hosted by his Department on 31 March 2015, will be published, in order that the proposals made at the meeting by parents, providers, academics, city and county child care committees and non-governmental...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 183. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure funding is provided to Cork County Council as per its request to employ a school warden to manage a pedestrian crossing at a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20902/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Wild Atlantic Way Project (27 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding available for pubs and restaurants located along the Wild Atlantic Way tourism route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20961/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (26 May 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 665. To ask the Minister for Health the reason some general practitioners are charging medical card patients for taking blood; his views on whether this is acceptable; if he will instruct general practitioners to end this practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20210/15]