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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (30 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Deputy Costello. I also have a few questions for the Minister, mainly to do with the early years sector. It is fine if the Minister wishes to provide the answers to some of these questions in writing afterwards. Briefly, before I get into those questions, is there any expected date for the redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (30 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the Minister. It was very interesting what the Minister mentioned about childminders. It is great to see 2,000 of them coming into the system. I assume they are all registered. Some work must have been ongoing to register that number of childminders.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (30 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: I am sorry. It was the number of children. How did we got to that figure, from two to 2,000?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (30 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: Yes, because they are different.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (30 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: I have a few other questions on the early years sector. Do we have any figures for the number of services that have closed? I refer to official figures. I know sometimes we hear various reports in this regard, but what are the official figures? I would also like to know how many services opened in 2023. How many such services closed and how many opened in 2023? It is fine, as I said,...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (30 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: The number I have is 238, but I accept that might not be correct.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (30 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the Minister very much. With regard to the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte's sector, I am sure she probably gets this more than any of us but some of the issues still seem to be the lack of staffing or trying to recruit and retain staff in the disability sector. Does the Minister of State want to talk about that? I know there have been increases and they are welcome, but how...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (30 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: That is good to hear. Sometimes, the difficulty with panels is that people feel they go on a panel and do not hear anything else. Obviously, there is such competition at the moment with the private sector. It might be able to give people a definite start date and, of course, particularly for younger people, that is what they want to know. People hear they are on a panel and wonder whether...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (30 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: It is also proposed to publish the opening statements to the Oireachtas website. Is that agreed? Agreed. I thank the Ministers and all the officials.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Message to Dáil (30 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for public services for the year ending 31 December 2024: Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, and Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (30 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: 135. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his officials in the foreign births registration section will liaise with the parents of a child (details supplied); if he will confirm receipt of the application which was sent in December 2023 through the Irish embassy in Beijing China; the status of the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4242/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (30 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: 457. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of early years and SAC closures, by county. in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; the number of babyroom closures, by county, for 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; if he has considered the policy paper drafted by an organisation (details supplied) to assess and react to early...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Hospital Services (30 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: 502. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is referred to either St. James’s or St. Vincent's Hospital. [3726/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (25 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: 325. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of children availing of his Department’s funding programmes (details supplied) in 2022, 2023, in tabular form. [3432/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (25 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: 326. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated number of childcare services that have signed core funding contracts; the total number who signed up for core funding and subsequently withdrew; the years they withdrew; and the estimated number of children that are not covered by NCS, in tabular form. [3433/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (25 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: 327. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children by county/ nationally that are not covered by his Department’s NCS subsidy excluding ECCE services. [3434/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (25 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: 328. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the lowest, highest and average, geographically of fees actually currently being paid by parents in 2023/2024. [3435/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: 407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting 14 weeks for a decision on their invalidity pension claim. [3062/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (23 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: 420. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of physical family visits to prisons that took place in 2023, by the number of visits per prison and the number of visits with a child present, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2433/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Promotion (18 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the Minister. I acknowledge a particular woman, Laura, who brought this to my attention. There are also others who campaign with her. It is probably an issue about which we do not speak a lot. When we say it people ask what is the problem. We can look at how much we now know about smoking and cigarettes and their links to cancer. We have the images on packaging now. With regard...