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Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (23 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: As of 5 August 2025, 553 childcare services were registered with Pobal in Cork. Of those, 9 had left Core Funding at one point over the past 3 years and continued to operate outside of this scheme on this date. A further 26 services had left Core Funding but later rejoined and were signed up to the third year of the scheme on this date. 502 services in Cork, an overwhelming majority, have...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (23 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 (23 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: Family Resource Centres (23 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: 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 funding equalisation scheme was initiated in 2024 for the Family Resource Centre Programme. The scheme ensures that all Programme members...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (23 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: The Programme for Government commits for the first time to provision of early learning and childcare through State-led facilities adding capacity in areas where unmet need exists. State ownership of facilities is a very substantial and significant development and offers the potential to influence the nature and volume of provision available and to ensure better alignment with estimated...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (23 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: Ombudsman for Children (23 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: Reply not received from Department.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (23 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: The Programme for Government commits for the first time to provision of early learning and childcare through State-led facilities adding capacity in areas where unmet need exists. State ownership of facilities is a very substantial and significant development and offers the potential to influence the nature and volume of provision available and to ensure better alignment with estimated...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Family Resource Centres (23 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that the number of applications to join the Family Resource Programme that were unsuccessful on this occasion was forty-four. A total of forty-nine organisations applied for membership of the Family Resource Centre Programme. This followed on from an announcement of an open call for applications to join the Programme, made possible by my Department securing...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (23 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: Disabilities Assessments (23 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: This Government recognises that waiting times for Assessment of Need (AON) are too long and have a significant impact on delivering on the needs of children and their families. Both this Department and the HSE are committed to addressing delays in the delivery of Assessments of Need and have been working intensively to progress measures to achieve this. The provision of an effective and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Health Service Executive (23 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: Please note that this PQ has not been selected in the top 20 oral PQ's and as a result, a written response will be issued directly to the Deputy. 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 (23 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 (23 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 (23 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly in relation to this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: I thank the Deputy for the question. Government recognises the extra living costs experienced by people with disabilities and the ways in which these costs can negatively impact the lives of disabled people and their families, often leading to an increased risk of poverty and financial insecurity. The Programme for Government commits to addressing the cost of disability through a range of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Communications (23 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: Responsibility for the provision of public infrastructure, including playgrounds, falls under the remit of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. The Department of Children, Disability and Equality has no information about the planned playground referred to in the question. Kildare County Council may be in a position to provide the requested information.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Middle East (23 Sep 2025)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 525 and 526 together. My officials inform me that my Department has no suppliers based in Israel or an Occupied Palestinian Territory and that therefore my Department has not accessed any product or service from a supplier based in Israel or an Occupied Palestinian Territory within the last two years.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Health Services Waiting Lists (23 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 Funding (23 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.