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Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Health Services Staff (30 Sep 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: Departmental Bodies (30 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: Ms. Patricia Carey was appointed to the role of Special Advocate for Survivors of Institutional Abuse in March 2024. Operating independently of the Minister and the Department, her primary role is to amplify the voices of survivors as a central, essential input to Government deliberations on matters which affect them and to promote the collective interests of survivors. Strategic...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (30 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: The calculation of a services Core Funding grant contains multiple elements – the Base Rate, Graduate Premiums, Targeted Measures and the new Staff Funding Additional Contribution. The base rate, which is the majority of the allocation, provides funding on the basis of a services staffed capacity. It is calculated as the number of places offered multiplied by the hours for which...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (30 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: As of 2 September 2024, the minimum rate for the National Childcare Scheme (NCS) increased from €1.40 to €2.14. The increase was introduced as part of Budget 2024 measures and means that parents now receive a higher subsidy rate towards their childcare fees. With this new rate, the maximum level of hourly support according to age for the lowest level of income is detailed...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (30 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: The Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme is a universal free two-year programme available to all children within the eligible age range. A child must have turned 2 years and 8 months on or before 31st August in the programme year and not turn 5 years and 6 months on or before June 30th the following year, to be eligible for the ECCE programme. The ECCE Programme is provided...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: The Access and Inclusion Model (AIM) is a programme of supports designed to ensure that children with additional needs can access the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme. Since its introduction in 2016, AIM has had a major impact on the lives of children with additional needs and the overall quality of early learning and care. Through this period over 38,000 children have...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (30 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: Work is well advanced on the Programme for Government commitment to develop an Action Plan for Administrative and Regulatory Simplification for the Early Learning and Childcare Sector, supported by a Working Group comprising representatives from the Department, Pobal and the City / County Childcare Committees and an Advisory Group comprising providers, educators/practitioners and parent...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Health Service Executive (30 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: A key objective of this Department and the system as a whole, is to ensure that public monies and used as effectively and efficiently as possible. This also means that funding is provided to those with the highest level of need. Means testing supports the targeted allocation of funding along this principle. It also ensures that the scheme remains in line with other related Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Child and Family Agency (30 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: Thank you Deputy for your question. As this is an operational issue for Tusla, I have asked Tusla to collate the information requested, and to respond directly to you on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Child and Family Agency (30 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: Please find below, a table outlining the number of Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) Social Workers employed by Tusla as of end-December 2019 to 2024, and as at end-June 2025: WTE 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 (end-June) Social Workers 1,533 1,669 1,669 1,612 1,612 1,679 ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Children in Care (30 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: As this question relates to operational information held by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, the question has been referred to the Agency to reply directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (30 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 803 and 804 together. As with all State expenditure, there is a limited amount of funding available in a given year and adequate budgetary controls are required to ensure that expenditure does not exceed the funding allocated for a specific purpose. The maximum Base Rate allocation is an enhanced budgetary control for Core Funding that has been...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Care Services (30 Sep 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 (30 Sep 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: Disability Services (30 Sep 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: Disability Services (30 Sep 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: Disability Services (30 Sep 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: Departmental Schemes (30 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: There is no backdating of financial support on the National Childcare Scheme (NCS). It has always been communicated by the Department that NCS subsidy awards are payable from the week they are claimed by the Provider. NCS subsidies can only be paid once an application is successfully completed, a Childcare Identifier Code Key (CHICK) has been registered with a childcare provider, and the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: An application was received from Magic Years, Beechlawn under the Private Extension strand of the Building Blocks Extension Grant Scheme. The service was successful in its progression to next stage, which involves the completion of a legal framework, and includes the signing of a Grant Agreement. While the Department can appreciate the service is anxious to commence projects works, it...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (30 Sep 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.