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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: I thank Dr. Lynch for his response to the question about the national week on early years and quality child care. What can we do to make this happen? Would he like us to put together a proposal? Should we facilitate a meeting with some of the other interested bodies? This is something we should do. It would be very good to see a national campaign on early years and quality child care as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: We can discuss that and come back to Dr. Lynch with a proposal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: I remind members to make sure their mobile phones are switched off. This is important as they cause serious problems for the broadcasting, editorial and sound recording staff. Today, the Joint Committee on Health and Children is holding its third hearing on affordable and quality child care. The child care sector faces a range of challenges, including the significant cost of child care...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: I thank Ms Mary Lacey-Crowe for her opening statement. I invite Ms Denise McCormilla of the National Childhood Network to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: Thank you. We will move to some questions. Members will have six minutes each. I thank Deputy McLellan for joining us, as I know she had questions in the Dáil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: Deputy Sandra McLellan is the joint committee's special rapporteur on this aspect of child care. I invite her to make a contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: Quite a number of questions were posed. I will ask Ms Quinn to address those that were directed to her.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: We have heard about various approaches to providing for special needs. Does Ms Lacey-Crowe advocate a particular model? Is it a question of providing special needs assistants or additional training for mainstream service providers? What is the model of best practice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: What currently happens?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: We will move on to the second round of questions. I call Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor who will be followed by Deputies Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin and Catherine Byrne and Senator Colm Burke.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: We should leave it there. Ms McCormilla can come back in again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: I invite Ms Bradley to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: I thank everybody for their time and engaging presentations. Ms Quinn just mentioned the return. There are studies going back to the 1970s including the Perry pre-school project in the USA which showed that for every $1 invested, there was a return of $16. Ms Quinn is right that it takes someone with a bit of vision. It is not something that will be achieved in the cycle of a government....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Amnesty International Report on Ireland's Abortion Laws: Discussion (9 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: I thank the speakers for their contributions. I have not got to read the report in great detail today but I welcome the opportunity to discuss this issue with them. I have some specific questions about the pieces I have read. With respect to the closing arguments that were made about repealing the eighth amendment, that abortion be decriminalised and that the Protection of Life During...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (9 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: 783. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently waiting on a full diagnostic assessment for autism in Waterford University Hospital; if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the waiting list times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21937/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (9 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: 796. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details as to the composition of the autism team in University Hospital Waterford; if all the positions are covered; the number of psychologists on the team who can do a full diagnostic assessment; the length of time it will take, and the progress that has been made in recruiting a psychologist who can carry out a full diagnostic...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (9 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: 880. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to recruit a full-time consultant psychologist for the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in County Waterford; if he is satisfied with arrangements at present, given that the post has been vacant since April, and concerns are being expressed by the PNA; his views that the service is fit for purpose; if he will give a breakdown of waiting...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Fee Paying Schools (9 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: 977. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, for each of the past five years, the amount of funding provided to each fee paying school for the purchase of laptops, tablets (details supplied) and information technology equipment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21961/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Arts Funding (26 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: As it stands, no Arts Council funding is going into Waterford for festivals. I accept the Minister cannot interfere in the process. However, as the Department sets the policy in terms of inclusion of young people and of community arts in particular, can the Department find the €11,000 elsewhere? Otherwise we will have no festival in Waterford. The contracts have been signed and the...

Topical Issue Debate: Arts Funding (26 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: I want to raise the issue of a small amount of money that has a huge impact on Waterford every year. The Imagine arts festival is a special festival which is relatively small in scale but by no means lacking in programme events or community participation. The festival runs every October for ten days. It was founded in 2003 and has grown in scale and content since then. It is very much a...