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Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Programme for Government (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2363. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department has conducted the assessment of access referenced in the Programme for Government to finance and financial services for women from minority groups; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41952/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Parental Leave (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2365. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the establishment of maternity, paternity and adoptive leave policies for all elected representatives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42041/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2366. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the engagement her Department have had with childcare providers to determine how to reduce the administrative burden on providers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42042/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2367. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress her Department has made in trying to reduce the administrative burden on providers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42043/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2368. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on planned changes to the planning guidelines for childcare facilities to facilitate more applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42044/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2384. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress that has been made on the review of the 2001 Childcare Facilities Guidelines for Planning Authorities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42162/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2369. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the transformation of the supply management unit into a forward planning and delivery unit to determine the supply of childcare needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42045/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2370. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress that has been made to purchase or build state owned childcare facilities to create additional needs in areas who have the most unmet need; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42046/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2371. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress that has been made by her Department to develop State-led childcare facilities in tandem with the school building programme in Dublin Fingal West; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42047/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Education Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2372. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress that has been made by her Department to host state led after school care and support start up supports for groups involved in after-school activities in Dublin Fingal West; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42048/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2385. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the timeline of implementation of the centralised portal on pay transparency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42165/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Paternity Leave (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2386. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the way in which her Department encourages the take-up of statutory leave for fathers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42166/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Paternity Leave (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2409. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps being taken to address and mitigate against the impact of the motherhood penalty on women in the workplace, particularly in relation to: income inequality and pay progression, barriers to promotion and career development, access to affordable childcare and flexible working arrangements, and measures to support women...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Paternity Leave (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2410. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline any cross-departmental efforts underway to tackle the structural contributors to the motherhood penalty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42542/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Paternity Leave (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2414. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures being considered to promote more equitable sharing of childcare responsibilities between parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42549/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Priorities (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2387. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the plans her Department are working on to tackle the falling birth rate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42167/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2388. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress being made to ensure the Review of Early Learning and Care and School Age Childcare operating system in Ireland will be ready for publication in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42168/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2412. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the timeline for the establishment of the National Agency for Early Learning and Childcare; the interim measures being taken to address the affordability crisis in childcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42546/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2413. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the fiscal supports being considered by her Department to alleviate the burden of childcare costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42547/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2438. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to consider introducing a cap or ban on administrative fees charged by crèches for placing children on waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42812/25]