Written answers

Tuesday, 28 November 2023

Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

 
  • Departmental Data
    466. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff currently employed in Enable Ireland in Cavan-Monaghan; the number of vacancies in Enable...
  • Disability Services
    467. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is a mechanism for private providers to indicate their willingness to participate in the provision of...
  • Childcare Services
    468. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is any capital funding available to private childcare facilities who need to relocate due to expansion...
  • Departmental Staff
    469. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are personnel in his Department who could be classified as having a significant or exclusive focus of...
  • Childcare Services
    470. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the minimum notice period for a crèche which decides to withdraw from the core funding scheme, and if...
  • Care Services
    473. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the investigation into the care home in the south east (details supplied); if each individual case...
  • Ukraine War
    474. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay in offering a contract for accommodation offered to his Department for Ukrainian people...
  • Nursing Homes
    475. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in view of the Ombudsman report Wasted Lives, the number of disabled people under the age of 65 years that...
  • Departmental Data
    476. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated number of residential places for disabled people that will be needed over the next 5, 10, 15 and...
  • Departmental Strategies
    484. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the Autism Innovation Strategy; the timeframe for the publication of the Autism Innovation...
  • Departmental Data
    487. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has plans to collect disaggregated data for the purposes of forward-planning for the autistic community;...
  • Departmental Functions
    488. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has any plans to establish a dedicated cross-departmental unit in his Department to facilitate a...
  • Rights of People with Disabilities
    489. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that the optional protocol of the UNCRPD has not yet been ratified; and the timeframe for the...
  • Departmental Policies
    490. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if all Government Departments have a dedicated autism policy in place; and which Departments have developed a...
  • Disability Services
    491. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what actions he has taken to address the staffing issues in disability services, including the recruitment and...
  • Departmental Data
    492. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of establishing a one-stop-shop where autistic people and their families and carers can...
  • Ukraine War
    493. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay in offering a contract to an organisation (details supplied) for accommodation offered...
  • Departmental Funding
    494. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what efforts are being made to ensure that an organisation (details supplied) can continue to provide a...
  • Freedom of Information
    495. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of Freedom of Information requests submitted to his Department in 2022 and to date in 2023; the...
  • Mother and Baby Homes
    496. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the urgency attached to implementing the arrangements under the Mother and Baby Institutions...
  • Departmental Funding
    497. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will reverse the funding cuts that an organisation (details supplied) have received; if he will ensure...
  • Direct Provision System
    498. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 464, 465, 467, 468 and 469 of 14 November 2023, the expected total...
  • Disability Services
    501. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the recruitment process for a CDNT manager in County Louth will be completed; if this position is exempt...
  • Childcare Services
    502. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider removing the requirement for crèche operators to have professionally produced accounts;...
  • Departmental Advertising
    503. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total costs incurred by his Department arising from the placing of advertisements with the national...
  • Departmental Communications
    504. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department, or any body under the aegis of his Department, has facilitated in-person or remote briefings...
  • Departmental Funding
    505. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 843 of 20 September 2023, if he will provide an update on the engagements...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education
    506. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that his Department is requiring early year service providers who are receiving core funding to...
  • International Protection
    507. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to use a property (details supplied) for the purpose of emergency accommodation for people...
  • Departmental Funding
    508. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details of funding streams (details supplied); when each fund opens annually; the number of...
  • Departmental Data
    509. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details in tabular form of Ireland's potential share in total of the asylum, migration and...
  • International Protection
    510. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details as to whether the asylum, migration and integration fund can be used to fund the return of...
  • Departmental Data
    511. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details of the amount in the Ireland for Ukraine fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Departmental Funding
    513. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for the current estimate of funding required to meet demographic and unmet need in the disability sector; and if...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    514. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 192 of 4 October 2023; if the information sought can be provided as soon...
  • Legislative Measures
    515. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 439 of 21 November 2023, if he has made representations to his...
  • International Protection
    516. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 466 of 14 November 2023, the equivalent average cost per night in...
  • Gender Recognition
    517. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details on the research commissioned by his Department to examine issues of concern relating to...
  • Departmental Budgets
    518. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost to implement a 12.5% increase across the board for youth funding schemes. [52410/23]
  • Care Services
    519. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications received to date in 2023 for respite care in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and the...
  • Childcare Services
    521. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way the charter of accounts for core funding aligns with the practical and financial realities in the...
  • Disability Services
    522. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to establish a single-entry point to children’s disability...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    526. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to rebalance the distribution of resources between staff working on...
  • Wage-setting Mechanisms
    527. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to resolve pay parity issues for organisations that provide...
  • Disability Services
    528. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to attract staff in disciplines relevant to disability services who...
  • Departmental Funding
    529. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to recognise the work of community groups that support autistic...
  • Disability Services
    530. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to develop opportunities for career progression within public...
  • Health Services Staff
    531. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to incentivise working within the public health sector to ensure...
  • Departmental Policies
    534. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to develop clinical guidelines, along the lines of those developed...
  • Disability Services
    535. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken to liaise with the Department of Education to adopt an approach which integrates the...
  • Departmental Policies
    536. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken or if he has plans to develop and enforce guidelines to ensure that interventions...
  • Disability Services
    537. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken or if he has plans to provide adequate financial supports to families who access...
  • Care Services
    538. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken or if he has plans to increase the capacity within respite care across all community...
  • Magdalen Laundries
    539. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the Government-approved National Site of Conscience on the site of the former Magdalene...
  • Direct Provision System
    540. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people in County Mayo currently in the direct provision system; to list the type of accommodation...
  • Ukraine War
    541. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and location of each accommodation property for beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine in...
  • International Protection
    542. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and location of each accommodation property for international protection applicants in County Mayo;...
  • Ukraine War
    543. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons from Ukraine who are being provided with accommodation by the State per county; and if he...
  • International Protection
    544. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of international protection applicants who are being provided with accommodation by the State per...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education
    545. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of small, independent pre-schools that are struggling to meet the chart of accounts requirement...
  • Departmental Funding
    546. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether his Department can provide a pathway for organisations such as (details supplied) to access funding for...

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