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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (7 Nov 2023)

Kathleen Funchion: ...SETU’s bid for a new veterinary medicine school at its campus, given that there is only one veterinary school in the country presently, and given the proven track record SETU has in delivering land sciences education and related research in conjunction with regional stakeholders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47264/23]

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jan 2023)

Kathleen Funchion: ..., is crucial in delivering a fair price to Irish farmers. Carlow and Kilkenny have some of the finest food producers anywhere in the country. Many would say we are very blessed with top quality land and the best of top quality produce is grown throughout the counties. However, for too long smaller farmers, who do not have the same resources to take on factories or marts to get better...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (8 Dec 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: ...not up to standard as a farmer. He had been saying all along that it was to do with a premises and industry which was in operation right next to his farm in respect of the contamination of his land. It turns out he was correct about that because when the company closed up, everything went back to exactly as it should be on the farm. He was, therefore, correct and was made to feel I am...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: ...crux of what we are trying to get at is that there is no principal reason to specify that contemporary burial practices from the 1940s, 1950s and either earlier or later should apply to any potential burial lands. An example of this would be that, in certain situations the practice at times was that babies, particularly if they had not been baptised at the time, had died in childbirth or...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: ...to delete lines 24 to 27 and substitute the following: “(5) The Government shall make every effort where a site proves problematic to resolve difficulties and thoroughly examine burials on the land, before it is determined that memorialisation of the burials on the land, is more appropriate.”. The reason for the amendment is that memorialisation in the absence of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: ...committee are the voices of the people we represent in the early years and childcare sector on this issue, and not just our own constituents. There is total panic this week. It always seems to land on the shoulders of the workers and providers in the early years and childcare areas. They always seem to get the wrong end of everything. They had to panic about the re-registration and now...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (19 Nov 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 666. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are council-owned lands in County Kilkenny that could be identified as suitable for affordable housing. [47575/19]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: ...Day and everyone is talking about how it is okay not to be okay, but for anyone in a very difficult housing situation, it is something that has an impact on their mental health. We need to see genuine measures. The Minister is in cloud cuckoo land on housing. He cannot be living in the real world. It is impossible because from the measures he has proposed, he certainly is not dealing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: ...should apply in the context of new schools so that when a new school is announced, it is delivered within two or three years at most. Schools should not fall off the list or go into never-never land for 13 years or more. Common sense is needed here. The school representatives made some very good points earlier. They pointed out that we know what the population is going to be in an area...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Dublin Homeless Network, Limerick and Clare Homeless Alliance, Cork Social Housing Forum (12 May 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: I agree with much of what the witnesses say, particularly about landlords not taking up the housing assistance, HAP, scheme, the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, and every other scheme. They have no interest. They will make up any excuse in the book and avoid it as much as possible. These are some of the best submissions we have got from any housing organisations because they deal with...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: County and City Management Association (26 Apr 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: ...many of my questions have been addressed, the point has been made that there are sufficient resources. I have a question about delays and do not refer simply to building social housing. While land is available in some areas, I also refer to a huge delay in buying social housing. It sometimes is taking six, seven or eight months when local authorities buy houses for people. What is the...