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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (11 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 396 of 8 April 2025 and 61 of 14 May 2025, when he will meet an organisation (details supplied) as committed to back in April and still awaited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31068/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (11 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 273. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the full-year cost via the national childcare scheme to reduce childcare fees to €200 per month. [31085/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (11 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 274. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the full-year cost of increasing the wages across all grades of early years educators by €1.50 per hour [31086/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Resource Centres (11 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 275. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the full-year cost of including all family resource centres into the national forum based on the number that applied for inclusion this year (five were to join). [31087/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (11 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 276. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the full-year cost of opening all available beds in special care settings. [31088/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (11 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 364. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure funding is provided by the HSE to a young person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31072/25]

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome the Minister and her officials. I will run through my questions in one go. The first is on foster carers and ensuring a State pension for them, which is really important. I raised this with the Minister's predecessor a number of times and suggested that he would use the mechanism that is there for family carers and I hope the current Minister will do so. The State pension was...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (17 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 71. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps she is taking to retain early years educators in the sector, and therefore retain capacity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32746/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (17 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I wish to ask the Minister about our early years educators. Staff turnover rates are high, particularly for private providers. We also have issues with capacity and retaining our early years educators. Of course, pay is a key issue. What areas is the Minister looking at to ensure we retain our early years educators in order to build on the capacity that is very much needed?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (17 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister. We have known for quite some time that pay is the single biggest issue. It has become and continues to be the main issue. While the work of the joint labour committee continues, we are now well into June and it unfortunately appears there is a wide gap between one side of the table and the other on the joint labour committee. SIPTU is seeking that providers must pay...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (17 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I would like to see the figures from previous JLCs on the amount of money brought forward by the Government in previous budgets and the amount of money that was actually spent on whatever the increase was. We will find quite a gap there, particularly when we look at the last increase and the length of time it took to achieve that. It was little or nothing in real terms. Regarding the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (17 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 73. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions she has taken to date to reduce the assessment of need waiting list; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32747/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (17 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: My question follows on from the previous one. What actions is the Minister of State taking to reduce the ever growing waiting lists for assessment of need? We know from the HSE that it expects the waiting list will exceed 24,000 and will be closer to 25,000 by the end of this year.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (17 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. She may not have them with her but is it possible to get figures? She gave percentage increases of 30% and 65% in the first few months of this year. If she has the figures for what that means in the numbers of assessments of need, that would be really helpful. While the Government continues to build public capacity which is very important,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (17 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister of State. I presume and expect that, as we come to budget 2026, she will consider further capacity to reduce waiting lists further, in particular as the HSE is expected to exceed a waiting list of 24,000 by the end of the year, an incredible figure. We need to consider how much we can get from private capacity. In her final response, the Minister of State might...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Resource Centres (17 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 85. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to advise on the number of applications received for inclusion in the National Family Resource Centre Forum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32387/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (17 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 86. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to respond to the recently published report on behalf of Tusla regarding special care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32386/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (17 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 105. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she plans to make changes to expand access to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32389/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: State Pensions (17 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 109. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on progress to provide a State pension to foster carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32388/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Reviews (17 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 124. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to advise when the promised review of core funding will take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32390/25]