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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 519. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications received to date in 2023 for respite care in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and the number of persons on a waiting list to get respite care service in the counties, in tabular form. [52411/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 520. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications received to date in 2023 for respite care; and the number of persons on a waiting list to get respite care service. [52412/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 522. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to establish a single-entry point to children’s disability services and child and adolescent mental health services for autistic and disabled children to ensure that children are no longer passed between services. [52423/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 523. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to liaise with third-level institutions to develop work placement schemes to attract staff to disability services. [52424/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 524. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to initiate a campaign in secondary schools targeting leaving certificate students to promote careers in disability services. [52425/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 525. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to engage with the relevant professional bodies representing speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, psychologists and nurses to inform a long-term strategy to address the staffing issues in disability services. [52426/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 526. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to rebalance the distribution of resources between staff working on assessments of need and staff implementing therapeutic supports. [52427/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Wage-setting Mechanisms (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 527. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to resolve pay parity issues for organisations that provide services under section 39 of the Health Act 2004; and the estimated cost of achieving pay parity issues for organisations that provide services under section 39 of the Health Act 2004. [52428/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 528. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to attract staff in disciplines relevant to disability services who have the right to work in Ireland to return by subsidising travel costs to return to Ireland; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure. [52429/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 529. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to recognise the work of community groups that support autistic people by establishing a distinct funding stream to develop their work and to facilitate the establishment of new autism community groups across the country; and the estimated cost of undertaking this...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 530. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to develop opportunities for career progression within public disability services for professionals in areas such as occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, physiotherapy or psychology; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure. [52431/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 531. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to incentivise working within the public health sector to ensure that fewer professionals leave Ireland and that staff do not feel compelled to supplement their income by working in the private sector; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure. [52432/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 532. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to ensure that public sector health workers are satisfied to work exclusively within the public health sector; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure. [52433/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 533. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to roll out suitable autism training for all public health staff to ensure that they can engage with and meet the needs of the autistic community; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure. [52434/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 534. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to develop clinical guidelines, along the lines of those developed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in the United Kingdom, for undertaking an autism assessment and ensure that they are adhered to by professionals within the public health...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 535. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken to liaise with the Department of Education to adopt an approach which integrates the school inclusion model and the children’s disability network team model to ensure that in-school therapies are available along with community-based services for autistic people; and the estimated...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 536. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken or if he has plans to develop and enforce guidelines to ensure that interventions provided to autistic people and disabled people are evidence-based and rights-based. [52437/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 537. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken or if he has plans to provide adequate financial supports to families who access assessments and supports privately due to their unavailability in the public health system until such time as vacant positions within CDNTs have been filled; and the estimated cost of undertaking this...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 538. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken or if he has plans to increase the capacity within respite care across all community health organisations; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure. [52439/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 636. To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding provided for mental health services in Budget 2023 and Budget 2024, broken down by ELS and 'new measure', in tabular form; and to provide a detailed breakdown of the status of each of the measures announced. [52405/23]