Results 61-80 of 20,818 for speaker:Norma Foley

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (7 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 529 and 530 together. 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: Disabilities Assessments (7 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: As this question refers to the 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 (7 Oct 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: Health Services Waiting Lists (7 Oct 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: Health Services Waiting Lists (7 Oct 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: Health Services Waiting Lists (7 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: As this question refers to the 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: Mother and Baby Homes (7 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme provides payments and health benefits to people who spent time in any of the Mother and Baby or County Home Institutions that were identified by the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation as having a main function of providing sheltered and supervised ante and post-natal facilities to single mothers and their children. The...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (7 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: In June, the Department confirmed the introduction of maximum fee caps for all Partner Services in Core Funding from September 2025. These new maximum fee caps will place a limit on the fees that can be charged across all types of provision. This will reduce costs for families who are facing the highest fees across the country, while promoting fairness in the market by addressing fee income...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Family Resource Centres (7 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: I can inform the Deputy that the Department allocates core funding for the Family Resource Centre Programme through Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. Tusla administers the Family Resource Centre Programme, which supports members throughout the country. The core funding allocation is standardised across the Family Resource Centre Programme, and principally covers the salaries of staff, along...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Social Welfare Eligibility (7 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: A key objective of this Department and the system as a whole, is to ensure that public monies are 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: Family Support Services (7 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: Tusla has shared the following response with my office:With co financing from the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), the Department through its National Model of Parenting Support Services, in partnership with Tusla and Treoir, has worked to transition and expand the Teen Parent Support Programme (TPSP), into the Young Parent Support Programme (YPSP).Through this expansion, the 11 existing...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Health Services Waiting Lists (7 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: This is a matter for the Local Authorities.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (7 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: The 2001 Planning Guidelines for Local Authorities on Early Learning and Childcare Settings were issued under section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000. The Guidelines are intended to ensure a consistent approach to the treatment of planning applications in respect to the land use planning aspects of early learning and childcare provision. The Programme for Government...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Thalidomide Victims Compensation (2 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: Since March of this year, the National Thalidomide Advocacy Office has supported four individuals to apply to Contergan in Germany for recognition that their disabilities are as a result of Thalidomide exposure. The National Thalidomide Advocacy office received acknowledgements on the 23rd of September 2025 that all four applications have now been received by Contergen. These applications...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (2 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: The number of unique children registered for early years and school age childcare for the 2025/2026 programme year-to-date is as follows: Programme Number of Registrations as of 30/09/2025 ECCE 2025/2026 102,364 CCSP Saver Programme 2025/2026 576 NCS 2025/2026 190,878 Total number of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (2 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 387 and 388 together. The total number of unique children that are registered for the ECCE 2025/2026 programme call as of 30th September is 102,364. 49,403 / 48% unique children are registered in the 2025/2026 ECCE Programme Year 2 as of 30th September. The number of unique children registered this time last year in the 2024/2025 ECCE Programme is up...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (2 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 389 and 390 together. The Programme for Government 2025 commits to "Explore making available an extra hour of ECCE each day in the second year of preschool". This commitment was informed by an independent review of the ECCE Programme which was published in October of last year. During the course of the ECCE Review, representative organisations,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (2 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: In June, I announced the introduction of maximum fee caps for all Partner Services in Core Funding from September 2025. These new maximum fee caps will place a limit on the fees that can be charged across all types of provision. This will reduce costs for families who are facing the highest fees across the country. The fee freeze will remain in place for all Partner Services with fees that...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (2 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: Improving access to quality and affordable Early Learning and Care and School Age Childcare is a key priority of Government. Currently approximately a quarter of all early learning and childcare provision is delivered by not-for-profit operators and three quarters by for-profit operators. For-profit operators range from sole traders and partnerships to much larger scale multi site...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Medical Aids and Appliances (2 Oct 2025)

Norma Foley: It is entirely open to the health professional in the HSE to determine what equipment is essential to safely meet the needs of the child. All equipment to be used for the support needs of individuals must be prescribed and risk assessed. It is important to have due regard to the rights of child in the use of a restriction in the provision of supports and services. Services have a...