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Wed, 22 Mar 2017
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Legislative Programme
Kathleen Funchion
207. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Health his plans to bring forward legislation regarding commercial surrogacy in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14350/17]
Tue, 7 Mar 2017
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Early Start Programme
Kathleen Funchion
818. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there is a taskforce for the development of the early years strategy; and if so, the detail of the members of the taskforce, their title and their organisation. [11185/17]
Tue, 7 Mar 2017
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Child Care Services Provision
Kathleen Funchion
838. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children that availed of centre based child care, both community and private, in 2016. [12150/17]
Tue, 7 Mar 2017
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Child Care Services
Kathleen Funchion
839. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children anticipated to avail of targeted subsidies in the affordable child care scheme, ACS, scheme in year one; and the estimated cost for that number. [12151/17]
Tue, 7 Mar 2017
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Child Care Services
Kathleen Funchion
840. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children anticipated to avail of the universal subsidy in the affordable child care scheme, ACS, in year one; and the estimated total cost for that number. [12152/17]
Tue, 7 Mar 2017
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Child Care Services Funding
Kathleen Funchion
841. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of reinstating the childminding advisory service. [12153/17]
Tue, 7 Mar 2017
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Child Care Services Funding
Kathleen Funchion
842. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost over a five-year period of increasing her Department's agreed threshold of €47,500 of a household's combined income year on year for those five budgetary years by €500 per year, that is, year one increasing the threshold to €48,000, in tabular form; and the total cost over a five-year period for all households eligible for affordable child care scheme, ACS, subsidies. [12180/17]
Tue, 28 Feb 2017
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Child Care Services
Kathleen Funchion
822. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way applications by persons and registrations and payments to Tusla registered child care providers will work with respect to the targeted subsidy (details supplied). [10220/17]
Tue, 28 Feb 2017
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Information and Communications Technology
Kathleen Funchion
823. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the IT system for both the universal and targeted subsidy will be fully automated (details supplied); and if her Department is factoring in a reasonable amount of time to be allowed to services and county child care committees to become familiar with the system themselves prior to it being automated. [10221/17]
Tue, 14 Feb 2017
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Child Care Services
Kathleen Funchion
75. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether the child care settings will be equipped to cope with the roll out of the single affordable child care scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7090/17]
Tue, 14 Feb 2017
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Further Education and Training Programmes
Kathleen Funchion
180. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the number of tourism and hospitality skills training positions that were allocated to the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency in 2015 and 2016. [6817/17]
Tue, 14 Feb 2017
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Further Education and Training Programmes
Kathleen Funchion
181. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the amount of funding that was allocated to the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency for tourism and hospitality skills training in 2015 and 2016 by his Department. [6819/17]
Tue, 14 Feb 2017
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Further Education and Training Programmes
Kathleen Funchion
182. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Education and Skills to specify the agency or Government body that has oversight and responsibility for hospitality and tourism skills development policy. [6821/17]
Tue, 14 Feb 2017
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Tourism Funding
Kathleen Funchion
625. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding that was allocated to the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency for tourism and hospitality skills training in 2015 and 2016 by his Department. [6820/17]
Tue, 7 Feb 2017
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Community Employment Drug Rehabilitation Projects
Kathleen Funchion
323. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Social Protection the way in which participants will be chosen for the Kilkenny city community employment scheme which is being run by an organisation (details supplied); and the type of work participants will be engaged in through the programme. [5902/17]
Tue, 7 Feb 2017
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Proposed Legislation
Kathleen Funchion
703. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the legislation for the affordable childcare scheme, ACS, is expected to be passed; if passed, if the background work will have been completed to ensure roll-out for September 2017; and when the guidelines for the ACS will be made available. [5907/17]
Wed, 1 Feb 2017
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Medicinal Products Prices
Kathleen Funchion
60. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked 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]
Wed, 1 Feb 2017
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Assisted Human Reproduction
Kathleen Funchion
111. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked 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 effects this has for the general scheme of legislative provisions dealing with assisted human reproduction, AHR; the timeframe for the legislation dealing with AHR; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4571/17]
Tue, 31 Jan 2017
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Child Care Services
Kathleen Funchion
773. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked 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 child care infrastructure if pursued. [3805/17]
Tue, 31 Jan 2017
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Domestic Violence Services Funding
Kathleen Funchion
777. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked 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]