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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Staff (12 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: 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, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (12 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I want to be clear that the delivery of appropriate and accessible services for children with disabilities and their families is a priority of this Government, my Department, the HSE and its lead agencies. The core principle of the Progressing Disability Services (PDS) policy is to achieve fairer and more equitable access to services for children with disabilities based on their needs,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (12 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: 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, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (12 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: 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, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (12 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: Publication of the next National Disability Strategy is a key priority for me as Minister and for the Government more broadly, and I expect it to be finalised and published shortly. The development of the next National Disability Strategy is a Programme for Government commitment and will be a milestone achievement, representing a step-change in how we deliver disability policy in Ireland....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (12 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: Personal assistance is a service primarily for adults with physical disabilities that enables them to live their lives as independently as possible and to take decision making control. Typically, the person with the disability either directly employs their personal assistant or is involved in the process of selecting a personal assistant to work with them. The person with the disability...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (12 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: A personalised budget is an amount of funding allocated to an eligible person with a disability to enable them to make their own arrangements to meet specified support needs. On foot of a commitment in the Programme for Partnership Government (2016) to introduce personalised budgets for persons with disabilities in Ireland, bringing about the establishment of the Personalised Budgets...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (12 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: The Programme for Government – “Securing Ireland’s Future” sets out a clear commitment to increase staffing, train more therapists and prioritise Children’s Disability Network Teams (CDNTs) to deliver supports and services. I fully acknowledge that recruitment and retention of staff is a challenge across the disability sector overall, due to the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (12 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: Ireland ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in 2018. The UNCRPD articulates a range of social, economic, and cultural rights, as well as civil and political rights, which the State is obliged to uphold and advance in relation to disabled people. Since ratification, the State’s approach to UNCRPD implementation has been one of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (12 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: 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, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (12 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: 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, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (12 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: There has been significant investment in respite in recent years. There is a commitment in the Programme for Government to continue the expansion of respite services, and the Action Plan for Disability Services 2024-2026 recommends that provision is increased by a third. While acknowledging that there is currently no formal policy underpinning Specialist Community Based Disability Respite...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (12 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: The Autism Innovation Strategy was published in August 2024. The Strategy contains 83 actions across four core pillars which will be delivered within the 18-month lifespan of the Strategy. 11 Government Departments and related public bodies have committed to leading on, or supporting, actions in the Strategy. This Government is committed to the full implementation of the Strategy, and...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Census of Population (11 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: On 1 March 2022, the Government formally decided to conduct a Census of Population in 2027, to be carried out by the Central Statistics Office (CSO). The exact census date has not yet been decided. It is however expected that census data collection will run in April and May 2027. Census 2027 will be a major undertaking for the CSO as, for the first time in Irish history, the public will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Diagnoses (11 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: 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, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Staff (11 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: 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, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (11 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: 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, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (11 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: 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, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (11 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: 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, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (11 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: 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.