Parliamentary questions

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Kathleen Funchion

348. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 90 and 976 of 15 June 2021, the breakdown of the figure referred to of the €7.2 million weekly cost of the enhanced employment wage subsidy scheme rate for childcare, of employment wage subsidy scheme, pay and non-employment wage subsidy scheme pay from the start of the scheme on 1 September 2020 to end of Q3, 2021; and the allocation and amount drawn down for this period. [33967/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Kathleen Funchion

89. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Finance the amount of funding allocated in 2020 and 2021 to the employment wage subsidy scheme; the amount drawn down in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33688/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Kathleen Funchion

90. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Finance the amount of funding allocated in 2020 and 2021 to the temporary wage subsidy scheme; and the amount drawn down in tabular form. [33689/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Kathleen Funchion

91. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Finance the amount of funding allocated in 2020 and 2021 to the employment wage subsidy scheme for ECCE pay; and the amount of this allocation drawn down in tabular form. [33733/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Kathleen Funchion

92. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Finance the amount of funding allocated in 2020 and 2021 to the employment wage subsidy scheme for NCS pay; and the amount of this allocation drawn down in tabular form. [33734/21]

Departmental Schemes

Kathleen Funchion

176. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of funding allocated in 2020 and 2021 to the temporary wage subsidy childcare scheme; and the amount drawn down in tabular form. [33690/21]

Departmental Schemes

Kathleen Funchion

177. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of funding allocated in 2020 and 2021 to the temporary wage subsidy childcare scheme for NCS pay; and the amount of this allocation drawn down in tabular form. [33731/21]

Departmental Schemes

Kathleen Funchion

178. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of funding allocated in 2020 and 2021 to the temporary wage subsidy childcare scheme for ECCE pay; and the amount of this allocation drawn down in tabular form. [33732/21]

Child and Family Agency

Kathleen Funchion

180. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost to employ an additional 50 social workers. [33948/21]

Child and Family Agency

Kathleen Funchion

181. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost to employ an additional ten administrative support staff for social workers. [33949/21]

Social Welfare Schemes

Kathleen Funchion

397. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed and the reason for refusing a domiciliary care allocation for them re-examined considering their complex needs. [32990/21]

Childcare Services

Kathleen Funchion

435. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding allocation in 2019, 2020 and 2021 for county childcare committees by county; and the amount of this allocation that was spent in 2020 and 2021, in tabular form. [32992/21]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Kathleen Funchion

437. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average staff turnover rate for full day services based on the data collected in the Pobal Early Years Sector Profile 2019-2020. [33273/21]

Public Sector Staff

Kathleen Funchion

448. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost to employ an additional 50 social workers. [31656/21]

Public Sector Staff

Kathleen Funchion

449. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost to recruit an additional ten administrative support staff for social workers. [31657/21]

School Attendance

Kathleen Funchion

802. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Education the estimated cost to restore the school completion programme to 2010 levels. [31671/21]

Disability Services

Kathleen Funchion

848. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Social Protection the details of the uptake and funding rates of the disability awareness support scheme between 2017 and 2021, in tabular form. [30609/21]

Maternity Leave

Kathleen Funchion

912. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost to extend maternity leave by 52 weeks. [31655/21]

Parental Leave

Kathleen Funchion

915. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing six weeks of parental benefit which would be the same rate as maternity benefit but which could be taken by either parent or shared between the two at the end of the period of maternity leave. [31664/21]

Departmental Data

Kathleen Funchion

916. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing maternity, paternity and adoptive benefit by €10 per week. [31666/21]