Results 21-40 of 2,157 for speaker:Kathleen Funchion in 'Written Answers'

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (11 Oct 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: 582. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the bus service (details supplied) from Callan, County Kilkenny, to Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, has discontinued; his plans to provide an alternative service. [29391/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Expenditure (13 Oct 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: 46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of the school transport scheme; and if his Department will consider increasing funding to the scheme in line with a recommendation by a charity (details supplied) of €5 million resulting in an abolition of fees for parents. [30045/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (13 Oct 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: 177. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of schools in receipt of funding for the school completion programme; the total amount of funding allocated from her Department for the school completion programme; and the amount by which the total amount of funding has been cut in 2016. [30053/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (13 Oct 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: 178. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the childminding advisory service; and her plans to reinstate it in view of the need for regulation of the childminding sector. [30054/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (13 Oct 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: 179. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for the regulation of the growing childminding sector. [30055/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (25 Oct 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: 459. To ask the Minister for Health the reason, after spending over €12 million on renovations to Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel, County Tipperary, wards are sitting idle with the hospital not running at full capacity; and if this was due to the elevator size as the elevator is incapable of transporting a hospital bed in accordance with HIQA regulations. [31897/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Review (23 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of the school transport scheme; and if his Department will consider increasing funding to the scheme, in line with a recommendation by a charity (details supplied), by €5 million, resulting in an abolition of fees for parents. [36469/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (23 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: 182. To ask the Minister for Health the existing drug addiction facilities in County Carlow, specifically around support and follow-up care for addicts who have recently completed rehabilitation programmes. [36468/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (13 Dec 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: 460. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the new technology for young children with diabetes, the freestyle libre (details supplied); if he will consider investing in this technology to improve blood sugar control in young diabetics; and if he and the HSE will consider approving the freestyle libre on the long-term illness scheme. [39747/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (14 Dec 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: 184. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding for a project (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if the HSE will be forthcoming with the initially agreed funding for the project [40324/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Strategy Implementation (17 Jan 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 1674. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures in place for the potential fallout from the implementation of new guidelines for crèches that will cause huge difficulties for the staffing of services and that will commence as of 1 January 2017, when the new guidelines are proposed to come into effect; if her attention has been drawn to the crisis in the early years...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Garda Vetting Applications (17 Jan 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 1675. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to address the length of time it takes early years services to get Garda clearance for hiring new staff; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that it often has little to do with the actual process and is in fact more to do with a backlog; and if her Department is researching any new options that will relieve this...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (17 Jan 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 1721. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason the small Army contingent currently serving in Mali, Africa are not afforded any kind of stipend towards phonecall credit to be used to contact families at home while away on duty (details supplied); and his views on whether it is unacceptable that those serving in Mali who are living in isolated locations without access to...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (25 Jan 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 291. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the delay from her Department regarding the issuing of transitional funding to support the impact to community child care services regarding the exclusion of community employment trainees, without level 5 qualification, from adult-child ratios; if her attention has been drawn to the impact this has on the sustainability of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (25 Jan 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 293. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of and terms of reference for the cross-Border early childhood care and education consortia; and the way in which a person can apply for access to them. [3458/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commercial Rates Impact (31 Jan 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 773. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to tackle the ongoing issue of high commercial rates within the child care sector for private operators in view of the fact that rates bills being received currently for 2017 are up from 40% to 80% in some areas compared with 2016; and her views on whether this is not sustainable and will result in a negative impact on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services Funding (31 Jan 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 777. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding a group (details supplied) received in 2016; and the amount it should expect to receive in 2017 and when. [4292/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (31 Jan 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 779. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the recent announcement in budget 2017, that Garda vetted, first aid trained and tax compliant child minders are unregistered and thereby excluded from budget 2017, could be a breach of EU competition laws for the Government by funding one mode of child care business, which is centre based, to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (1 Feb 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 60. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an initiative he is taking with other countries to negotiate collectively to lower the prices of drugs; the status of meetings that both he and officials from his Department have had with their counterparts on this; the way he will proceed on this; if targets have been set; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4701/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (1 Feb 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 111. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 400 of 24 January 2017, the status of the review of international public funding models for fertility treatment, in view of the fact that it was to be furnished to him by the end of 2016; the reason for the delay in finalising the review; the timeframe to receive the review, analyse it and publish it; the knock-on...