Written answers
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Home Care Packages
1174. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a person (details supplied) is not getting the full home support care; the reason carers are not... - Disability Services
1175. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline his plans for the development of respite services in each LHO of CHO4 for persons with... - Mother and Baby Homes
1177. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that the State forensic investigators are to acquire advanced new technology to allow them to... - Disability Services
1178. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a timeline for the roadmap being developed to support all stakeholders to progress the next... - Legislative Process
1179. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth considering that the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Act 2022 is now enacted and the Decision... - Childcare Services
1180. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth given the recent success in reducing creche fees, when a similar initiative will be available for childminders;... - Child and Family Agency
1181. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the report of the public consultation of the Tusla Early Years Inspectorate;... - Legislative Process
1182. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the drafting of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2022; and if he will make a... - Flexible Work Practices
1183. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when legislation for flexible work will be brought before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a... - Nursing Homes
1184. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on a residential care application by a person (details supplied); and if he will... - Disability Services
1185. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of speech and language therapist posts that are currently within children disability network teams... - International Protection
1188. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a property (details supplied) in County Clare is being acquired by International Protection Accommodation... - Disability Services
1189. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to previous representations and correspondence to him, if he will outline the care and supports put in... - Health Services Staff
1190. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to ensure pay parity for employees of Section 39 organisations providing disability... - Disability Services
1191. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline his engagement with the Minister for Transport concerning the operation of the 236A bus route... - Disabilities Assessments
1192. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on providing temporary funding assistance to the families of children on waiting lists for... - Departmental Staff
1193. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff within his Department who are based in and working with the European Union in Brussels;... - Disability Services
1194. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment with the national children disability services;... - Disabilities Assessments
1195. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay in assessing a child (details supplied) in County Donegal for speech and language... - Employment Rights
1196. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is considering introducing specific leave for women who have suffered a miscarriage; and if he will make... - Disability Diagnoses
1197. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what appeals process is open to a patient when their symptoms are attributed solely to a diagnosis of ASD, to... - Disability Services
1198. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the key services and supports available to children with learning disabilities such as autism in counties Sligo... - Ukraine War
1199. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and location of each accommodation property for beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine;... - Direct Provision System
1200. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to increase the direct provision allowance, as welfare allowances have been increased several times... - Social Welfare Benefits
1201. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if someone in receipt of a blind welfare allowance from the HSE will continue to receive this allowance when... - Child Detention Centres
1202. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of young people within Oberstown Children Detention Campus offered temporary release for each... - Emergency Accommodation
1203. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a service provider (details supplied) will be paid. [16805/23] - Early Childhood Care and Education
1205. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will increase the ECCE capitation to address the operational costs of preschools (details supplied); and... - International Protection
1206. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 472 of 7 March 2023, if an informal offer or discussions have taken place... - Childcare Services
1208. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a childcare facility (details supplied) can urgently be considered for DEIS status. [16887/23] - Direct Provision System
1209. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) proposed actions in relation to the well-being of people... - Health Services
1210. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update in the case of therapy sessions for a person (details supplied); and if he will... - Disability Services
1211. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the Disability Capacity Review Action Plan; when the action plan will be published; the reason... - Health Service Executive
1212. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of funding provided by the HSE to the National Multiple Sclerosis Care Centre in 2021, 2022 and... - Disability Services
1213. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many young adults with an intellectual disability on the northside of Dublin are on the waitlist for day... - Health Services Staff
1220. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he outline the progress relative to the pay parity issue for section 39 staff employed in the disability... - Disability Services
1221. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unfilled positions for speech and language therapists in each of the community disability network... - International Protection
1227. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a property (details supplied) in County Clare is being acquired by the International Protection... - Disability Services
1228. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that the two senior psychologists working in CHO5 children’s disability network team,... - International Protection
1229. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the basis for calculating the daily expense allowance under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme for... - Childcare Services
1232. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has engaged with stakeholders in the childcare sector regarding unintended consequences of the new NCS... - Childcare Qualifications
1233. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the fact that under the new national childcare scheme, the capitation rate paid to services with... - Health Services Staff
1234. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of dietitian posts allocated to the 2 CDNTs in South Tipperary; the numbers of those posts vacant;... - Childcare Services
1236. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to increase the rate of the after-school childcare scheme given the ongoing cost-of-living crisis;... - Departmental Funding
1237. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if financial supports could be put in place to reopen a facility (details supplied) for the continued... - Childcare Services
1238. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average staff turnover rate in early learning and care services, broken down by service type (details... - Disability Services
1239. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking in response to the finding in the National Report of Children's Disability Networks Team... - Housing Provision
1241. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a property (details supplied) is to be used for emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on... - Childcare Services
1242. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that the national childcare scheme payments for afterschool clubs are accessible by children... - Disability Services
1243. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what additional staffing resources have been provided during 2022 and to date in 2023 to the Clare... - Health Services
1244. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will engage with the HSE to investigate whether providing group speech and language therapy while... - International Protection
1246. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he sought and received planning advice in respect of a building to accommodate persons seeking international... - Health Services
1247. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide additional funding to the MS care centre to provide an additional 1.128 bed-nights per year... - Disability Services
1248. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the parents of a person (details supplied) will receive a response/reply to their application for... - Direct Provision System
1249. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the progress made with implementing the white paper on ending direct provision;... - International Protection
1250. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when IPAS will issue a payment to an accommodation provider (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will... - Ukraine War
1251. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when overdue payments for accommodating Ukrainian refugees will issue to a hotelier (details supplied) in... - Direct Provision System
1252. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the progress his Department has made on ending direct provision and establishing a new... - Disability Services
1253. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacant occupational therapy roles in each children's disability network team; and if he will make... - Social Welfare Code
1257. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the payment assistance that is available for relative foster carers; the criteria that they have to meet to... - Disability Services
1258. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to provide an occupational therapy service for those with mild intellectual disability in... - International Protection
1259. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people in accommodation provided by the international protection accommodation services,... - Disability Services
1262. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacant psychology roles in each children's disability network team; and if he will make a... - Adoption Services
1265. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the operation of the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022; the number of entries made to... - Ukraine War
1266. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a hotel (details supplied) can expect to be paid for services it has provided to the State in terms of... - Asylum Seekers
1267. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will expand the rent-a-room scheme to allow households who have an available bedroom to rent it to asylum... - Direct Provision System
1269. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will increase the direct provision allowance, given that welfare allowances have been increased several... - Disability Services
1270. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average time it takes to advertise a post (details supplied) that has been left vacant in children's... - Departmental Programmes
1271. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amounts in grant aid or funding awarded by his Department, or through schemes administered by it, to an... - Disability Diagnoses
1272. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who awaits a diagnosis and follow-up therapies for... - Disability Services
1273. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the way in which resources are allocated between different community healthcare... - Childcare Services
1274. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the application for sustainability funding by a pre-school facility (details... - Disability Services
1275. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on HSE funding for transitions to adult supports for autistic people; if he can provide more... - Local Authorities
1276. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total value of capital expenditure allocated to play and recreation, by local authority, in each of the... - Departmental Staff
1278. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Departmental staff currently on sick leave or stress leave; and the number who took stress leave... - Departmental Functions
1281. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can expedite payment to a service provider (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the... - International Protection
1282. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline in detail specific information (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a... - Departmental Data
1283. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a full response will issue to correspondence from this Deputy (details supplied) sent in March 2022; and... - Disability Services
1284. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of providing 100,000, 200,000 and 500,000 additional personal assistance hours for people... - Health Services Staff
1296. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the starting salary cost of employing a basic staff grade physiotherapist, a staff grade speech and language... - Disability Services
1306. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated capital cost of providing 1,200, 1,450 and 1,700 additional day service places for school leavers... - Child Protection
1310. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he has taken in response to a report (details supplied), including any actions to ensure immediate... - Flexible Work Practices
1311. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will clarify whether a State body (details supplied) will engage in a public consultation process in the... - Departmental Policies
1312. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeframe for the publication of the Disability Capacity Review Implementation Plan; and if he will make a... - Departmental Data
1313. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons released from Oberstown Detention Centre in each of the past ten years and to date in... - Refugee Resettlement Programme
1320. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the concerns of persons in a location (details supplied) are warranted; and if he will make a statement on... - Childcare Services
1321. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of increasing the threshold for the maximum subsidy under the national childcare scheme from... - Departmental Staff
1322. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full year cost breakdown of increasing the intake of graduate social workers to 350 throughout... - Legislative Process
1323. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the assisted capacity bill will be enacted. [18263/23] - Departmental Data
1324. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in the context of the UNHCR resettlement programme, if he will provide a schedule of the annual refugee...
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