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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Autism Spectrum Disorder Bill 2017: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...two boys of 12 years of age going to school for the first time. That is a damning indictment of the services we have today. If the shoe were on the other foot and the parents did not send the children to school for 21 days, they would be prosecuted, yet we can have a situation where children do not go to school for seven years and nothing seems to happen. That is why we feel there is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...to have that clarified. One other issue that the committee has considered and made a recommendation on is about a similar application. It comes back to the caring periods that Deputy Ó Cuív mentioned regarding children. There is another cohort of people being missed in this debate today and they are foster carers. They are caught between a number of stools here. They are not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Child Maintenance and Liable Relatives) Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...Protection, namely, Mr. Rónán Hession, assistant secretary with responsibility for working age and family policy, Ms Dearbháil Nic Giolla Mhicíl, principal officer in the area of families and children policy, and Ms Marina Louarn, assistant principal in the area of one parent and child income policy. I invite Mr. Hession to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Child Maintenance and Liable Relatives) Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...our reservations regarding the impact of this legislation. We should point out that there is a legal responsibility on the other parent to make legally binding maintenance payments in relation to children and that we are anxious this is pursued by the justice committee and adequate resources are provided to the Courts Service by the Minister for Justice. With the agreement of this...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: 807. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of assessment of needs applications carried out in-house by the HSE and which were not outsourced, by CHO, in 2022 and to the end of June 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39507/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: 847. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1010 of 13 June 2023, if a key contact has now been appointed (details supplied); when the child will be called for speech and language and occupational therapy appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40288/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: 864. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child will receive an appointment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40458/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (12 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: 207. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of respite beds available people with a disability respectively, by CHO in 2019 and in 2023; when respite beds withdrawn during Covid will be reinstated in light of the hardship being caused to carers and their families. [34572/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency (4 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: During the noughties, 443 children went missing from State care, none of whom was ever found. That was approximately 44 children per year who disappeared without trace, and at least some of these unaccompanied minors ended up in the prostitution industry. This dropped to fewer than four per year after the State policy changed from placing unaccompanied migrant children in foster care rather...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency (4 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...House that a protocol was being put in place with the Garda and the HSE at that stage, 14 years ago. It is clear that when foster carers are responsible for the care of some of our most vulnerable children, they are less likely to be exploited. I have given an example of that from 14 years ago. There is clear evidence that providing those children at the time with a foster home rather...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency (4 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: 56. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to ensure that children are not exploited when under the residential care of Tusla; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31581/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (4 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: 82. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the Programme for Government commitment to establish an agency (details supplied) to assist in the expansion of high-quality childcare, spearheading leadership, best practice and innovation, as well as professional development in community and private settings; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (4 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: 89. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to address the additional transport costs associated with disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31580/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (4 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: 104. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to support and ensure adequate staffing of children's disability network teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31579/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (4 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: 112. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to support the provision of allied health services to children with a disability within the community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31578/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Constitutional Amendments (4 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: 539. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on progress in relation to the referendum on equality and care due to take place in November; when the interdepartmental group will publish its proposed wording in relation to Articles 40.1, 41.2 and 41.3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32729/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (29 Jun 2023)

Denis Naughten: 403. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total advertising budget allocated by his Department and agencies in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2023, respectively; the funding provided directly to RTÉ in each year; if he has sought and secured an assurance that none of this funding was rebated via the RTÉ advertising barter...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2023)

Denis Naughten: ..., including evenings and weekends, enabling them to maintain their skills. Evening and weekend appointments would also assist families where parents are working and result in fewer hours lost for children. Many of these services are located alongside GP out-of-hours services, so the buildings are already open. We are now seeing health services like endoscopy providing out-of-hours...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2023)

Denis Naughten: It is no secret that children's disability services are at breaking point. However, the sheer scale of the problem is shocking when you learn that almost 800 vacancies exist in children's therapy services across the HSE's primary care services and children's disability network teams. Those 800 vacancies exist across physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...productive recommendations for these Departments to take on board. Groups that are at-risk and that have the most to gain from the SDGs, as identified in the January SDG national stakeholder forum, include children and young people; disabled people; people living with long-term health issues; older people; the Travelling community; refugees, internally displaced people and migrants;...