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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 May 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for this government. It is also a key priority for my department and for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The vast majority of children with special educational needs are supported to attend mainstream classes with their peers. Where children with more complex needs require additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (1 May 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for this government. It is also a key priority for my department and for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The vast majority of children with special educational needs are supported to attend mainstream classes with their peers. Where children with more complex needs require additional...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (1 May 2024)

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Housing Provision (1 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: 220. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the locations of the 30 sites identified for accelerated builds for refugees and other social housing purposes; if he will outline the plans for the provision of modular homes in the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council area; the sites under consideration there for the provision of modular homes; the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Staff (1 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: 221. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail the arrangements in place for where an employee of the Department, and each organisation under its aegis, becomes elected or co-opted to a local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19575/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Correspondence (1 May 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 222. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a person (details supplied) can expect a substantive response to her letter to you dated 24 April 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19586/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (1 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 223. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if denying healthcare to a specific group as suggested in a recent article (details supplied) would be in line with anti-discrimination rights such as represented in the Equal Status Act 2000-2018 (details supplied). [19594/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (1 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Steven Matthews: 224. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to ongoing concerns by a group (details supplied); if he is conscious of the need to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19610/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (1 May 2024) See 2 other results from this answer

Duncan Smith: 225. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline his plans for the development of respite services in CHO6 for persons with disabilities and their families including the increasing of staffing levels; and the facilities that are planned or where works have commenced. [19643/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Home Help Service (1 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: 228. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the full-year costs of providing an additional 100 intensive home support packages. [19793/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (1 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 229. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a child (details supplied) is still waiting on an assessment of need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19846/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (1 May 2024) See 6 other results from this answer

Patricia Ryan: 230. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to clarify if he is aware that the owner of a property (details supplied), currently being used to house people seeking temporary international protection, is being paid the sum of €75 per person per night; to clarify if that is not the sum, if he will clarify the correct sum; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (1 May 2024) See 7 other results from this answer

Rose Conway-Walsh: 236. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average fees being paid by parents (exclusive of State-provided ECCE funding) prior to reductions and savings from the national childcare subsidy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19901/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (1 May 2024)

Mary Butler: I propose to take Questions Nos. 240 and 288 together. On foot of the publication of the Maskey Report in 2022, this Government committed to the introduction of a non-adversarial route for children and their families, specifically covered by the Maskey Report, to seek compensation for the shortfall in care received. The nature of State Compensation schemes is such that they are defined by...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (1 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 295. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons under the age of 13 years who have been referred from the school dental programme for children to a dentist for further examination and or procedures in 2023 and to date in 2024, by CHO region; the number in the waiting list, by CHO region; and the average time in each CHO to be seen by a dentist. [19688/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Priorities (1 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...implementation of the National Oral Health Policy across the organisation. Priorities for 2024, as captured in the HSE's National Service Plan, include progression of oral healthcare packages for children aged from birth to seven years of age supported by additional funding of €4.75m from Budget 2023. These packages will ensure that families can bring their children to attend a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (1 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Mark Ward: 306. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who presented to the HSE looking for treatment for eating disorders who were referred to non-eating disorder inpatient public acute mental health facilities from 2018 to date, by year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19763/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: 308. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting to see a consultant paediatric neurosurgeon at Cork University Hospital. [19799/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: ...absolutely outstanding with her background team. She has done a tremendous amount of work. She is part of the team here, and the team has been excellent. She is transferring to the Department of children, and she has certainly got a great grounding here over the past three and a half years. We wish her the very best, and I say a sincere thank you on behalf of the committee for the work...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: UN Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (1 May 2024)

...it is not integrated or embedded sufficiently across all Departments. We have an inter-departmental working group but it is relatively weak. To take the food poverty working group and hot school meals for children, for example, a lot of the food used is not local and is not necessarily sustainable in terms of packaging. There is incoherence there on something that is very easy to be...