Results 81-100 of 2,157 for speaker:Kathleen Funchion in 'Written Answers'

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Strategy Implementation (12 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 367. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of early years services, both community and private, that have completed the full Aistear curriculum to date; and the number that have yet to complete the curriculum. [18671/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (12 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 368. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of inspectors employed by Tusla to inspect all services in the early years sector. [18672/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (12 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 369. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost for inspectors employed by Tusla to inspect all services in the early years sector in one budgetary year. [18673/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (12 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 370. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an allocation of additional funding has been made towards community-based crèches which face imminent closure; and if so, the amount and the number of those community services being targeted with the additional funding. [18674/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Reviews (13 Apr 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 385. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the expected cost of the independent review of the cost of providing quality childcare in private and community settings; and if her Department will require additional money in budget 2018 to meet the cost. [19108/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications Data (2 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 98. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons on a list in 2017 to be cleared of Garda vetting for the purpose of working in early years services. [20639/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Maternity Benefit (2 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 606. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of increasing the weekly maternity benefit payment by €20 for one year based on maternity leave uptake numbers in 2016. [20497/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Garda Vetting Applications Data (2 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 1452. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of extra funding allocated to an organisation (details supplied) to shorten the backlog of Garda vetting; when that extra funding was allocated; and the number of early years practitioners that have been cleared of their Garda vetting to date as a result of that extra funding. [20638/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Capitation Grants (2 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 1453. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost to increase both lower and higher capitation rates by €9 to all registered service providers engaging in the free pre school year. [20640/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (3 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 75. To ask the Minister for Health the special steps or initiatives taken since November 2016 in response to the deteriorating overcrowding situation; the status of these initiatives or steps that were announced; the preparations which are being made for winter 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20217/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (3 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 102. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons under 65 years of age now account for one in every four strokes, yet home care packages are not tailored to the specific needs of persons that could be living with the side effects of strokes for decades; if he will create an entitlement to home care that is appropriate for stroke survivors of all...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (3 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the construction process for a school (details supplied); the response from the design team to date; and when his Department expects the project to commence and be completed. [20919/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Maternity Benefit Data (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 128. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the full combined cost of increasing maternity benefit by €20, €30, €40 and €50 per week while extending maternity benefit by two, three, four, five and six weeks, in tabular form. [21167/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Staff (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 161. To ask the Minister for Health the hourly cost for ten HSE therapists employed as part of level 6 of the access and inclusion model, AIM, for children with additional needs taking part in the free pre-school year. [21163/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Staff (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 162. To ask the Minister for Health the duties of a HSE therapist working as part of level 6 in AIM; the number of hours a therapist spends with a child per day; and the number of days a week. [21164/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Staff (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 163. To ask the Minister for Health if a HSE therapist working with a child as part of AIM works consistently with the same child over a period of time or if the therapist changes every visit. [21165/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (4 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 263. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons (details supplied) with additional needs registered with early years services. [21166/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (9 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 661. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of admissions of women to a centre (details supplied) in the past ten years. [22006/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (9 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 662. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children or babies of women attending a centre (details supplied) in the past ten year period who have been taken into care by social services as a result of being deemed at high risk. [22007/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Birth Data (10 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 194. To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies that were delivered prematurely in 2016; and the number of babies that have been delivered prematurely to date in 2017. [22231/17]