Written answers

Tuesday, 30 May 2023

Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

 
  • Special Educational Needs
    583. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the return of therapists to special schools; the number who have returned to...
  • Maternity Leave
    584. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position in respect of calls by a charity (details supplied) to ensure that new mothers with cancer can...
  • Home Care Packages
    585. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if additional home support hours can be provided to a person (details supplied) who suffers from spinal muscular...
  • Child and Family Agency
    586. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the potential costs to undertake a comprehensive review of staffing structures within Tusla; and if he will make...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education
    587. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of increasing capacity in early years providers for baby places 0-1 nationally by 10%. [25594/23]
  • Child and Family Agency
    588. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the budget allocated for Tusla under the NDP for ICT infrastructure; the budget allocated for Tusla by his...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education
    589. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will review the core funding model which is presently undermining the viability of sessional providers,...
  • International Protection
    590. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on payments due to a service provider (details supplied); and if he will make a...
  • Health Service Executive
    593. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of funding spent on providing training for clinicians in private clinics providing outsourced...
  • Disability Services
    594. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will confirm the number of vacant posts waiting to be filled in the Mid-West Disability Team providing...
  • International Protection
    595. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has any intention of housing refugees in a location (details supplied); if he will engage with...
  • Human Rights
    596. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he received correspondence from the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in...
  • Disability Diagnoses
    597. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children and young persons on waiting lists for an assessment of need by CHO, age category and...
  • Ukraine War
    599. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on outstanding payments to an accommodation centre (details supplied) for Ukrainian...
  • Departmental Schemes
    600. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the uptake of applications for the Ireland against racism fund; if the number of applications to...
  • International Protection
    601. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details on the proposals to issue tenders for floating accommodation to house international...
  • Childcare Services
    602. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department assists with, or makes a financial contribution to, the sourcing or provision of childcare or...
  • Rights of People with Disabilities
    603. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of ratifying the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with...
  • Childcare Services
    604. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports he, in conjunction with the Department of Social Protection, will put in place to support parents...
  • Disability Services
    605. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding provided for residential respite for children's disability services in CHO 4 in each of the past...
  • Departmental Strategies
    607. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the Autism Innovation Oversight and Advisory Group; when the next public...
  • Disability Services
    608. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth that available therapeutic resource for children with special needs is properly allocated between completing...
  • Health Services
    609. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that community neuro-rehabilitation is a vital support for people living with neurological...
  • International Protection
    610. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will change policy to ensure that all refugees will in future be provided with accommodation; and if he...
  • Direct Provision System
    612. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current position in relation to the Programme for Government commitment to end the direct provision system;...
  • Disability Services
    613. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the eligibility criteria to access respite care for children with disabilities in counties Cavan and...
  • Health Services Staff
    614. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to increase the number of senior therapy staff within Children's Disability Network Teams to enable an...
  • Disability Services
    616. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the high vacancy rates in CDNTs; if he will report on how unspent funds, which were...
  • International Protection
    617. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of refugees who have been settled in County Donegal, broken down by townlands and whether they have...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education
    618. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has any concerns that the current design of the National Childcare Strategy does not facilitate part-time...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    620. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount paid by his Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms and consultants in...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education
    621. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if early years educators in the public system can be paid throughout the school holidays in order that they do...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    622. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children awaiting their AON in CHO 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26316/23]
  • Disability Services
    624. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE speech and language therapists in the children's disability network teams in County Westmeath...
  • International Protection
    625. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the inspections, per county, conducted by his Department on sites being utilised for those seeking international...
  • Child Protection
    628. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he and his Department continue to monitor the needs of children, in the home, in care, or...
  • Disability Services
    630. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which children with special needs continue to receive the support of Tusla in all situations where...
  • Rights of the Child
    631. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he and his Department continue to monitor the needs of children who are refugees or in the...
  • Direct Provision System
    632. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of direct provision centres currently available and inhabited throughout the country; the...
  • International Protection
    633. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he and his Department have identified vacant buildings throughout the country which might be...

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