Written answers
				Tuesday, 8 April 2025
  				
Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
				 
  - Departmental Programmes 
 789. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the recommencement of personalised budgets, as outlined in the Programme for Government. [16822/25]
- Early Childhood Care and Education 
 790. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department will assist an early years service (details supplied), which is now without a room as its...
- Departmental Projects 
 791. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way in which her Department is working to improve the accessibility of the online power of attorney system...
- Departmental Funding 
 792. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will commit funding in Budget 2026 to establish a community neurorehabilitation team for the north Dublin...
- Childcare Services 
 793. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when Cavan and Monaghan CDNTs will be reconfigured in line with the new HSE regional structures; if the new...
- Departmental Policies 
 795. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason foetal alcohol spectrum disorder is not recognised as a disability; and if she will make a statement...
- Departmental Funding 
 796. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 974 of 5 February 2025, the plans currently in place to increase funding...
- Departmental Reviews 
 797. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth following the Disability Capacity Review published in 2021, to outline the number of additional residential...
- Departmental Funding 
 798. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when expressions of interest will open for family resource centres seeking to be included in national funding;...
- Departmental Reviews 
 799. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a timeline for the review of the ‘PLACES | Pregnancy Loss (under 24 weeks) in Workplaces:...
- Childcare Services 
 800. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to increase the number of crèche facilities in the Fingal east constituency given the increasing...
- Departmental Policies 
 801. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she intends on introducing surrogacy leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16652/25]
- Childcare Services 
 802. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm that consideration would be given to permitting a child (details supplied) attending an ECCE service...
- Departmental Projects 
 803. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide a schedule of all capital projects being delivered or which have been completed by her...
- Departmental Strategies 
 804. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 971 of 5 February 2025, to provide an update on the new national strategy...
- Departmental Policies 
 805. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide an update on the development of child and youth impact assessments; the work undertaken to...
- Departmental Projects 
 806. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide an update on the procurement of an external project management agency to design a project...
- Departmental Reviews 
 807. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide an update on the scope of the Your Place Your Space review; and if she will make a statement...
- Departmental Schemes 
 808. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide an update on the development of a measurement impact tool which will measure the impact of...
- Departmental Programmes 
 809. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide an update on the significant preparatory work which will be undertaken in 2025 to further...
- Childcare Services 
 810. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an urgent appointment with the CDNT; and if she...
- Departmental Budgets 
 812. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the capital budget allocation to her Department in 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [16879/25]
- Childcare Services 
 813. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of student placements of physiotherapists that were offered for CDNTs in 2023 and 2024, in tabular...
- Immigration Support Services 
 814. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the criteria and processes being used to assess a proposed IPAS centre (details supplied); if an impact...
- Departmental Schemes 
 816. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of service providers that have pulled out of the core funding scheme since its introduction in 2022;...
- Departmental Funding 
 817. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she is aware of a promise made by her predecessor at a visit to a disability services provider (details...
- Departmental Appointments 
 820. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay issuing a speech, language and occupational therapy appointment for a child (details...
- Departmental Staff 
 822. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE vacancies, by job title currently at Clontarf, Kilbarrack and Coolock children's disability...
- Departmental Priorities 
 823. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she plans to exercise powers under section 47(1) Child and Family Agency Act 2013 to give additional...
- Departmental Staff 
 824. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a list with the job titles and salaries of all Ministerial staff, and Department private secretaries....
- Immigration Policy 
 825. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if no new contracts will be entered into with hotels for the use of IPAS accommodation where the hotel is the...
- Departmental Reports 
 826. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide an update on the report submitted to her Department in relation to talks with Catholic...
- Child Protection 
 827. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unborn children placed on Tusla’s child protection notification list in each of the past...
- Departmental Staff 
 828. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE physiotherapists and social workers based at Clondalkin Children's Disability Network Team in...
- Departmental Communications 
 831. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will confirm receipt of correspondence from a person (details supplied), and what actions she will take....
- Children in Care 
 832. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unaccompanied minors currently in State care; the age range of these children; the length of time...
- Departmental Staff 
 835. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE dietitians working in Galway CDNTs in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [17394/25]
- Childcare Services 
 836. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of childcare providers signed up to core funding in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular...
- Departmental Reviews 
 838. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the review of core funding will take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17404/25]
- Departmental Policies 
 840. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will examine the use of the Joint Labour Committee in setting wages for early years educators; if she...
- Early Childhood Care and Education 
 841. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the development of a national early learning and childcare agency; the actions her...
- Derelict Sites 
 842. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department has any vacant or derelict buildings in Dublin-Rathdown; to provide the addresses of these...
- Departmental Staff 
 843. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the staffing cohort at the CDNT at the west Galway children’s disability network team; if the service is...
- Departmental Communications 
 844. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she has been in communication with the Department for Social Protection as part of the interdepartmental...
- Childcare Services 
 845. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1383 of 19 March 2025, if she is aware that the childcare facility...
- Departmental Funding 
 846. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action being taken by her Department in relation to core funding given the feedback of many providers and...
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