Results 101-120 of 2,157 for speaker:Kathleen Funchion in 'Written Answers'

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Standards (11 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 17. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department has given consideration to a streamlining of the inspections system for the early years sector in order to decrease the amount of administrative work carried out by services. [22310/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (11 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 30. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to tackle the lack of availability of early years service provision to those under three years of age; and the work being undertaken by her Department to ensure that there is not a monopoly of early childhood care and education provision in the services for babies under three years of age. [22311/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) was not allocated with an EAL teacher in 2017 in view of the fact that the school requested and was previously allocated one EAL teacher for the previous three consecutive school years; and the reason this decision changed in 2017 in view of the fact that there has been no change to the school's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Goods Regulation (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 434. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Macushield and Artelac medications are not being made available for medical card holders. [24041/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Staff (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 655. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if recommendations in her Department's sustainability audits of community services recommend that services cut pay to child care staff; and if so, the capacity in which, the amount involved and the circumstances in which this was decided. [24120/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Costs (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 656. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost under the proposed universal subsidy of increasing the €80 per month subsidy in €20 intervals up to the amount of €600 for all eligible parents. [24165/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 657. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding for every level provided within the AIM programme in tabular form. [24166/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 658. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the breakdown of level 7 funding between the 10 and 15 hours options allowed within the AIM programme; the amount provided for the total 10-hour allocation and total 15-hour allocation nationally; and the number of children each of those total amounts provide for. [24167/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 659. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for a review of the early years child care sector; and the Government body that will conduct the review. [24168/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Data (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 660. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost per year of the ACS in the event that the wage rate for educators is revised from the current proposed wage rate for level 5 educators to €11.50 an hour, €13.00 an hour for level 6 educators and €14.75 an hour for level 7 educators. [24169/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 674. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to parliamentary question number 368 of 12 April 2017, the costs of the Tusla early years inspections, the Department of Education and Skills early years inspections and the Pobal compliance visits per year, in tabular form. [24564/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Data (23 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 678. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children under three years of age her Department estimates will take up both private and community crèche-based child care in September 2017; and the number of children under three years of age that attended both private and community crèche-based services from September 2016 to date in 2017. [24762/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (31 May 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of training CPD days both primary and secondary school teachers receive each year; the cost for those days; and his Department's total budget for teacher CPD training and the number of teachers. [26161/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (1 Jun 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 259. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the detail of the higher subsidy rate for persons under three years of age when introduced as part of the affordable childcare scheme; and the difference in amount compared with the ECCE higher and lower capitation rates. [26347/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (1 Jun 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 260. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the under three years of age subgroup of the early years forum will produce their recommendations to support and sustain provision for children under 3 in ECCE; and when this information will be readily available for consideration. [26348/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Data (20 Jun 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 1919. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of extending the ECCE scheme to 48 weeks. [27210/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (20 Jun 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 1921. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her Department's estimated hourly running cost for the early childhood care and education scheme and the hourly running cost of early years care for those under three years of age in services for both cohorts of children. [27385/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (20 Jun 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 1922. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of the early childhood care and education scheme over a 48 week period at a higher amount of €12 for both higher and lower capitation rates. [27386/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (20 Jun 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 1923. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of introducing a capitation rate of €12 to early years services for all babies under three years of age over a 48 week period. [27387/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Data (20 Jun 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: 1924. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children availing of the targeted subsidy within the ACS aged between six months and three years of age by amount (details supplied). [27438/17]