Parliamentary questions

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Kathleen Funchion

1014. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of expenditure spent on advertising the public notice entitled Mother and Baby Home Records published on his Department’s website on 27 May 2021 (details supplied). [31726/21]

Departmental Advertising

Kathleen Funchion

1015. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will launch an advertising campaign explaining the way to make a subject access request to his Department. [31727/21]

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Kathleen Funchion

1016. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount spent by his Department and the commission on advertising the mother and baby homes commission of investigation outside Ireland. [31728/21]

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Kathleen Funchion

1017. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount spent by his Department and the commission on advertising the investigation committee of the mother and baby homes commission of investigation. [31729/21]

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Kathleen Funchion

1018. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount spent by his Department and the commission on advertising the confidential committee of the mother and baby homes commission of investigation. [31730/21]

Departmental Advertising

Kathleen Funchion

1019. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount spent on advertising for the consultation process on the development of the restorative recognition scheme. [31731/21]

Departmental Advertising

Kathleen Funchion

1020. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount spent on advertising to consult adopted persons, survivors, natural mothers and relatives on the general scheme of the birth information and tracing Bill 2021. [31732/21]

Childcare Services

Kathleen Funchion

1022. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost if the State was to provide the funding necessary to fund the sector such as pay increases to the living wage of €12.30 per hour for the current level 5 childcare staff working in the sector by way of direct payment to childcare providers. [31905/21]

Childcare Services

Kathleen Funchion

1023. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if staff salaries represent 70% of the cost of the childcare sector; his views on whether this is 70% of providers costs; and if not, if it is 70% of all costs including costs that are covered by the State funding. [31907/21]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Kathleen Funchion

1024. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown including early childhood care and education, ECCE pay and non-pay, the access and inclusion model and so on of the €334.500 million provided for ECCE and AIM preschool in line B.3 of the revised estimate for 2021. [31908/21]

Education and Training Provision

Kathleen Funchion

1055. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his attention has been drawn to the soaring cost in obtaining a valid Solas Safepass card and the issue of accessing training which has led to a decline in workers holding this essential pass; if he will consider allowing highly qualified health and safety practitioners to deliver this essential training; and if he will further consider a change in the criteria to include them as certified trainers. [31089/21]

Departmental Expenditure

Kathleen Funchion

311. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown of the costs of his Department’s budget for the provision of after school in early years and childcare in tabular form. [30276/21]

Family Support Services

Kathleen Funchion

320. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the ABC and the PPFS programmes; and the breakdown on spend on these programmes in each of the years 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [30392/21]

Family Support Services

Kathleen Funchion

185. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown of the budget in regard to parental supports across areas (details supplied); and the breakdown of costs for 2020 and 2021, in tabular form. [30223/21]

Childcare Services

Kathleen Funchion

1. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the official complaint by an association (details supplied) to the United Nations and the Ombudsman for Children regarding the systemic discrimination against children and families by his Department in the context of its childcare policy under the national childcare scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28588/21]

Youth Services

Kathleen Funchion

3. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he is taking to address the shortfall in volunteers in the youth sector given that the sector relies heavily on volunteer hours and that many services are now facing closure due to a serious shortfall in properly trained volunteers. [28589/21]

Cybersecurity Policy

Kathleen Funchion

35. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions his Department has taken in view of the serious cyber-attack on the HSE to negate the impact on Tusla’s significant child protection casework and child protection and welfare functions. [28593/21]

Childcare Services

Kathleen Funchion

72. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department is examining the serious issues in relation to the current national childcare scheme exclusion of disadvantaged children as part of the wider review of childcare funding. [28590/21]

Childcare Services

Kathleen Funchion

79. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will consider commissioning research into capacity and forecasting in the childcare and early years sector to specifically map future population growth and capacity for childcare places (details supplied). [28591/21]

Bus Services

Kathleen Funchion

79. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Transport if a list will be provided of all new routes established by the National Transport Authority since March 2020. [28471/21]