Written answers

Tuesday, 5 November 2024

Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

 
  • Care of the Elderly
    874. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the guidance his Department offers to individuals seeking to establish legal decision-making processes for...
  • Disability Services
    875. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a meeting that groups in Donegal have requested (details supplied) with Minister of State Rabbitte to discuss...
  • Special Educational Needs
    876. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures being taken to support the children in the special care unit at Johnstown, Navan, as they...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    877. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who is awaiting an assessment of needs; and if...
  • Child and Family Agency
    878. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will investigate Tusla’s involvement or lack of involvement in the case of a four-year-old boy...
  • Departmental Budgets
    879. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is funding available for upgrading existing playgrounds; to provide a list of such funding and...
  • Departmental Schemes
    882. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of the ARP programme for refugees; how many individuals have availed of it in 2024; the overall...
  • Departmental Funding
    883. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the full-year costs of this year’s expected delivery on residential places; the amount of funding that...
  • Budget 2025
    884. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of funding that was allocated in Budget 2025 to deliver the announced 40,000 additional home support...
  • Departmental Funding
    885. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of funding allocated to the progressive alignment of the PA rate and home support rate with older...
  • Disability Services
    886. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a breakdown of CDNT data for both Tipperary teams for 2024 in regard to staff numbers; positions filled and...
  • Departmental Properties
    888. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has purchased a property (details supplied) to repurpose as a community hotel; and if he will...
  • Rights of the Child
    889. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress in the awareness raising campaign, stated in a reply to a Parliamentary Question from this Deputy...
  • Childcare Services
    890. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 541 of 15 October 2024, if an assessment has been conducted that would...
  • Disability Services
    891. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on a payment to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Departmental Funding
    892. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the grants available to a facility (details supplied) to purchase a site for the development of a new centre;...
  • Departmental Staff
    893. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff vacancies, by grade, in his Department at the end of August 2023 and August 2024; and the...
  • Childcare Services
    894. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to replace a childcare service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Health Services
    895. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a project can be reviewed (details supplied); and if he can provide an update on the current status of the...
  • Disability Services
    896. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason there is no HSE hydrotherapy pool in the north west region that can cater for wheelchair users, which...
  • Special Educational Needs
    897. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when full-time therapists will be restored to each special school. [44202/24]
  • Mother and Baby Homes
    898. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an institution (details supplied) is now included in the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act...
  • Ukraine War
    899. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether a costing has been developed on the potential moving costs of modular homes if planning is refused when...
  • EU Directives
    900. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882) will be transposed; how many EU directives are...
  • Disability Services
    901. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that the HSE has indicated that there is not an interest in the premises at Cootehill, County...
  • Departmental Data
    902. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what action he and his Department will take to ensure that the historical pay increments for the staff of St....
  • Disability Services
    903. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are any plans to provide a full-time respite service for children in Cavan and adults in Cavan; if she...
  • Children in Care
    907. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of increasing the foster care allowance payment in 2025 by €1; and if he will make a...
  • Disability Services
    909. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of respite services available in Cavan and Monaghan for children and for adults; the further proposals...
  • Departmental Correspondence
    911. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a response will issue to correspondence received by his Department (details supplied); and if he will...
  • Environmental Impact Assessments
    912. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will he publish the environment impact assessment statement for the proposed development at Lissywollen,...
  • Public Sector Staff
    913. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is satisfied that the provisions of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan...
  • Disability Services
    914. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of positions currently filled at the north Louth CDNT under the following headings: dietitians,...
  • Ukraine War
    921. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of payments to accommodation suppliers that are being consulted upon by a company (details supplied);...
  • Health Service Executive
    922. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there has been any funding allocated in the HSE’s Capital Plan for 2025 to build a facility to provide...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education
    923. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Early Learning Care and School-Age Childcare services inspected in 2023 and 2024, broken down by...
  • Departmental Funding
    925. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total funds provided from his Department to youth groups and youth organisations in County Donegal, broken...
  • Departmental Data
    926. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unaccompanied minors in the State; the number of which are under the care of Tusla; and if a...
  • Disability Services
    928. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the HSE funds adult disabilities day care centres within CHO 8 that are opened on the weekends; and if so,...
  • Gender Proofing of Policies
    930. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has developed an online reporting system for the 2024 gender pay gap reporting cycle, which...
  • International Protection
    931. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has been in consultation concerning a property (details supplied) for use as IPAS/BOTP...
  • Mother and Baby Homes
    941. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 18 of 24 October 2024, the number of payments made in each category of...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education
    942. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration will be given to granting a second overage exemption for the ECCE programme (details supplied),...
  • Disability Services
    943. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position in relation to the provision of a residential placement for a person in County Cork (details...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    947. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of children on waiting lists for assessments of need in counties Roscommon and Galway; and the...
  • Child and Family Agency
    948. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of individuals whose Tusla files were lost, either wholly or partially, in the HSE cyberattack of May...
  • Health Services
    950. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for details of which HSE Health areas will be reviewing the 2025 section 39 funding applications for an...
  • Home Schooling
    951. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if financial or other supports are available to a mother who is homeschooling their seven children of various...
  • EU Directives
    952. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if Directive (EU) 2019/1158 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on work-life balance...
  • Departmental Equipment
    953. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by...
  • Childcare Services
    962. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full year cost of increasing pay for childcare staff by 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, and 25%, respectively....
  • Health Services
    963. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the HSE health areas that will be reviewing the 2025 section 39 funding applications for an organisation...
  • Child and Family Agency
    965. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures being taken to support a person (details supplied), who has lost her aftercare as a result of...
  • Health Strategies
    966. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the First 5 Strategy; the work that is being carried out for children and families not offered...
  • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
    967. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to develop a national pathway and specialist multidisciplinary functional neurological disorder...
  • Disability Services
    968. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of home personal assistant hours delivered in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [45007/24]
  • Public Inquiries
    970. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will support the call by the parents of a child (details supplied) for a public inquiry into the...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education
    977. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of providers that have been paid AIM funding for 2024; and the number awaiting payment, by county, in...
  • Disability Services
    978. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address specific issues raised in respect of the provision of services to a child with ASD in County...
  • Departmental Staff
    979. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE solicitors employed by his Department in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [45186/24]
  • Disability Services
    980. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child with additional needs in County Cork (details supplied) will receive services; where the child...
  • Nursing Homes
    981. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people aged under 65 residing in nursing homes in each of the years since 2020. [45263/24]
  • Disability Services
    982. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will report on the case of a person with cerebral palsy (details supplied) who cannot receive their full...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education
    984. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the review of the eligibility criteria for the ECCE scheme; if that review will look at the lower...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    985. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the rationale behind the delay in an assessment of needs for a child (details supplied); how much longer the...
  • Disability Services
    986. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current number of vacancies in the CDNT services, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    987. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children waiting longer than six months for AON assessment in Clare; how long they are waiting, in...

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