Written answers
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Special Educational Needs
7. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps that have been taken to address the shortage of additional need services at a school (details supplied);... - Early Childhood Care and Education
14. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration will be given to raising the pay of early years educators by €1.50 per hour, as sought by... - Childcare Services
15. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cost of moving the entire childcare system into a public State model operated by the Department of Education,... - Disability Services
16. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will consider the provision of new clinical therapies such as kinesitherapy for children with... - Early Childhood Care and Education
17. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of early learning and childcare facilities in the mid-Cork region that have withdrawn from Core... - Disability Services
18. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the budgetary measures implemented since 2020 to support and improve services for adults with additional needs in... - Disabilities Assessments
19. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress being made to ensure that every child who requires an assessment of needs has early access to same,... - Childcare Services
20. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the most recent data on childcare closures and new openings; if he has data on expansions and on the number of... - Departmental Projects
21. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects the proposed national centre for research and remembrance to advance; when physical works will be... - International Protection
22. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he agrees with the Taoiseach that immigration is causing the homelessness crisis; and if he will make a... - Early Childhood Care and Education
23. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to provide capital funding for the development of facilities for providers of early childhood care and... - International Protection
24. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has conducted a socio-economic impact assessment in relation to the accommodation recognition... - Childcare Services
25. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration will be given to implementing Sinn Féin's €10 a day childcare affordability plan;... - Early Childhood Care and Education
26. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of childcare services availing of the new Equal Start support package; if he has plans to expand the... - Disability Services
27. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the work of his Department in providing assistive technologies to aid children with autism; and... - Early Childhood Care and Education
29. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration has been given to increasing financial assistance for parents who are sending their children to... - Childcare Services
30. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on his efforts to make childcare accessible and affordable; the amount he believes it is... - Departmental Schemes
31. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the national childcare scheme will be open to childminders who are not registered with Tusla; and if he will... - Childcare Services
32. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will engage with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on the provision of childcare... - Youth Services
33. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the new measures he has implemented in the area of youth work and youth employability; and if he will make a... - Childcare Services
34. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to increase core funding for childcare providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39083/24] - Disability Services
35. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the discussions he had with the Minister for Social Protection in advance of Budget 2025 with regard to... - International Protection
36. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of international protection applicant refugees that are currently without accommodation; and if he... - Flexible Work Practices
37. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is a plan to expand entitlements to flexible working and remote working contained in the Work Life... - Equality Issues
38. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on development of the next LGBTQI+ inclusion strategy; and if he will make a statement on the... - Childcare Services
39. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether an up-to-date audit of the gaps in childcare provision is being planned to inform future capital... - Rights of People with Disabilities
40. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he is taking to ensure the ratification of the Optional Protocol of the United Nations Convention on... - Mother and Baby Homes
41. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 291 of 18 June 2024, the number of applications to the mother and baby... - Disability Services
42. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE staff that will be removed from each CDNT into special schools, in tabular form; and if he... - Health Services
43. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the work currently being undertaken to recognise foetal alcohol syndrome as a long-term condition and disability;... - Childcare Services
44. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will establish a publicly owned childcare service in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Departmental Meetings
46. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times he has met with the Minister for Health in person regarding pay and conditions for CDNT... - Departmental Funding
47. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding streams available under his Department to assist with migrant integration; the amount allocated under... - Disability Services
48. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average waiting times for services in community disability network teams in Dublin mid-west; and if he will... - Child Poverty
49. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on his Department's efforts to tackle child poverty in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on... - Special Educational Needs
50. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will approve a suite of interim funding arrangements for special schools to hire their own school... - Disability Services
51. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress being made in addressing the delivery of assessment of need and therapy services for disabled... - Special Educational Needs
52. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the next phase of the pilot programme to reinstate in-therapy supports to special schools; when... - Childcare Services
53. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is satisfied with the availability of childcare facilities, given the increasing need for both parents to...
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