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Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Reports (2 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: I recognise that pregnancy loss is a tragedy which takes an enormous toll on expectant parents. The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth commissioned a qualitative research study to examine the workplace experiences of parents coping with pregnancy loss. The study, ‘PLACES | Pregnancy Loss (under 24 weeks) in Workplaces: Informing Policymakers on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (2 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: A wide range of supports are available through the Access and Inclusion Model (AIM). The Access and Inclusion Model supports children with additional needs to access and meaningfully participate in the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme through 7 levels of universal and targeted supports. AIM Level 5 provides funding for specialised equipment, appliances or small capital...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 396 and 397 together. The Department oversees the National Childcare Scheme (NCS) compliance function which is administered by Pobal CAR (Compliance, Audit and Risk). Pobal CAR are responsible for carrying out compliance inspections on service providers. These inspections check if services are adhering to certain programme rules and contract conditions, as...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: To confirm, subsidies awarded under the National Childcare Scheme (NCS) typically last 12 months. Every NCS award has an end-date which is clearly stated on the award. Applicants must renew their application before this end-date if they wish to continue receiving a subsidy for their child. If they do not renew, the award will expire and the subsidy payment will stop at the end date i.e. the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (2 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: In June, I confirmed the introduction of maximum fee caps for all Partner Services in Core Funding from September 2025. These new maximum fee caps will place a limit on the fees that can be charged across all types of provision. This will reduce costs for families who are facing the highest fees across the country, while promoting fairness in the market by addressing fee income disparity. ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: After-School Support Services (2 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: Many families avail of the National Childcare Scheme (NCS) as a way to reduce the cost of their early learning and childcare. The purpose of the NCS is to reduce the cost of childcare for parents by way of a subsidy paid directly to the childcare provider. The NCS does not purport to cover the operating costs of the childcare provider. Core Funding is a grant for early learning and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (2 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 401 and 402 together. Each year, Pobal compiles and publishes data from Early Learning and Care (ELC) and School Age Childcare (SAC) providers as part of the Early Years Sector Profile. While the allocation of ELC or SAC places is flexible, the published capacity data provides an estimate of the number of children enrolled in ELC and SAC at a given time. ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Family Support Services (1 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: The Programme for Government contains commitments with regard to kinship carers. Accordingly, the Department is in the process of developing a national policy on the rights of children living in informal kinship care. As part of the development of the national policy the Department:is in the process of completing the scoping exercise on informal kinship care in Ireland. This exercise will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (1 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (1 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: In Budget 2025, a total of €3.2 billion was allocated for HSE Disability Services. This amounts to an increase of 11.5% in funding (some €333m), on funding provided in 2024. Specialist Disability Residential services make up the largest part of the Disability funding disbursed by the HSE, approximately 60% of the total budget. Budget 2025 provided €107m to residential...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Family Resource Centres (1 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: There are currently no plans to further increase core funding provided to Family Resource Centre Programme members. Notwithstanding this, there is a Programme for Government commitment to work to increase funding and expand the capacity and network of Family Resource Centres, and this is something I will engage on over the lifetime of this Government. I can inform the Deputy that a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (1 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: Among other objectives, Core Funding supports the ability of service providers to meet the additional costs resulting from the EROs for Early Years Services, as it provides increases in funding to early learning and childcare service providers to support improvements in staff wages, alongside a commitment to freeze or reduce parental fees. The base rates in Core Funding have been...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (1 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: Among other objectives, Core Funding supports the ability of service providers to meet the additional costs resulting from the EROs for Early Years Services, as it provides increases in funding to early learning and childcare service providers to support improvements in staff wages, alongside a commitment to freeze or reduce parental fees. The base rates in Core Funding have been...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (1 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: Pay is one of a number of issues impacting the early learning and care and school-age childcare workforce. The level of pay for early years educators and school-age childcare practitioners does not reflect the value of their work for children, families, society and the economy. It is my intention to deliver on the Programme for Government commitment to ‘continue to implement...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (1 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Mental Health Services (1 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: This is a matter for my cabinet colleague, the Minister for Health.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Mental Health Services (1 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: This is a matter for my cabinet colleague, the Minister for Health.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (1 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (1 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (1 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 171 and 173 together. As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

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