Written answers

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

 
  • Departmental Reviews
    662. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 523 and 724 of 27 May 2025, to identify the lead Department responsible...
  • Departmental Funding
    663. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether the new rules around maximum fee caps will apply to childcare providers who are re-entering core...
  • Departmental Schemes
    664. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; the number of applications received; the...
  • Departmental Funding
    667. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her Department plans for the National Centre for Research and Remembrance; actions are being taken in relation...
  • Burial Grounds
    668. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions have been taken under the Institutional Burials Act 2022 to protect the sites associated with mother...
  • Departmental Budgets
    669. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the annual budget allocation to the Decision Support Service; the number of staff...
  • Departmental Funding
    670. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason AIM support educators funding is withdrawn when a child is absent due to illness or holidays; and if...
  • Disability Services
    674. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE psychologists based in Waterford south city children's disability network team in the years of...
  • Departmental Budgets
    677. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the findings and recommendations from the personalised budget pilot; her next steps to...
  • Disability Services
    678. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE social workers and nurses, by grade, that are based in south Kildare children's disability...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    683. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children as of 1 June 2025 or latest date available, that were awaiting a first assessment from...
  • Care Services
    688. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will outline the action she is taking to provide full-time early learning and care services for children...
  • Childcare Services
    689. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children that avail of NCS universal fee supports; the number of children that avail of targeted...
  • Departmental Data
    690. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in relation to recent announcements of fee capping in EY & SAC, to what percent do the Department...
  • Departmental Funding
    691. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth metric used to reduce the maximum amount of Core Funding from 600,000 in year two, 500,000 in year three and...
  • Health Services Waiting Lists
    692. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the waiting list for HSE home support in each month of 2025, broken down by regional health area and local...
  • Departmental Schemes
    693. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications for HSE home support (disability) in CHO 4 in 2024; and if she will make a statement...
  • Disability Services
    696. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of active service arrangements and grant aid agreements in place for disability services with...
  • Departmental Funding
    698. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide data on the total funding allocated and spent on disability services per CHO area in each of the past...
  • Disability Services
    699. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown of total expenditure on disability services in each of the past five years (details...
  • Departmental Data
    700. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the names of the five highest-funded for-profit organisations that have received payments under service...
  • Disability Services
    702. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the up-to-date position regarding the establishment of a community neuro-rehabilitation team in the CHO9 area....
  • Health Services Staff
    703. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE dietitians working at Coastal children's disability network team in the years of 2024 and to...
  • Health Service Executive
    704. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether provision has been made in the Health Service Executive’s draft service plan for the...
  • Disability Services
    705. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide a timeline for the roll out of an adult disability service in Wicklow Town; and if she will...
  • Health Services Staff
    706. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will allocate funding to an organisation (details supplied) from the 2026 National Service Plan for a...
  • Disability Services
    707. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who, having been referred for assessment for ADHD/ASD,...
  • Womans Health
    708. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether she will consider, in collaboration with the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment,...
  • Departmental Meetings
    709. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she has engaged with an organisation (details supplied) in relation to proposed changes to the guardian ad...
  • Guardians Ad Litem
    710. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the budget that has been allocated to ensure the success of the proposed changes to the guardian ad litem...
  • Health Services Staff
    713. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE clinical nurse specialist based at Coolock children's disability network team in 2024 and...
  • Departmental Data
    714. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her views in relation to a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32363/25]
  • Assisted Decision-Making
    715. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details of the amount spent or incurred by the Decision Support Service on PR consultants or PR...
  • Health Services
    717. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps her Department will take to ensure that a child (details supplied) will receive individual...
  • Childcare Services
    718. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the number of childminders who work in their own homes that are now registered under the national...
  • School Admissions
    719. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps her Department will take to ensure that a child (details supplied) will have access to an appropriate...
  • Departmental Data
    720. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps she will take to ensure that the number of preschool places available in Dungarvan and west County...
  • Departmental Websites
    721. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using...
  • Health Services Staff
    722. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she can outline the plans being developed by the disability unit within her Department to increase the...
  • Same-sex Marriage
    723. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her views on the ten years since the Marriage Equality Referendum; and if the Government intends to mark the...
  • Departmental Meetings
    724. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her attention has been drawn to a matter (details supplied); if she would be open to meeting with the family...
  • Child Poverty
    725. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures being taken to deal with the significant increase in the number of children living in poverty, as...
  • Departmental Strategies
    726. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the forthcoming national disability strategy will include specific actions and measurable targets to address...
  • Childcare Services
    727. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail the strategies being progressed within her Department to expand the provision of after-school and...
  • Health Service Executive
    728. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement her Department has had with the HSE on its proposed audit of capacity and provision of respite...
  • Departmental Contracts
    729. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the costs incurred by her Department and bodies under its aegis from contracts awarded to communications and PR...
  • Disability Services
    730. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the new services for children with special needs in County Monaghan for which funding was sought for delivery in...
  • Departmental Data
    731. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the new services for children with special needs in County Cavan for which funding was sought for delivery in...
  • Departmental Programmes
    732. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when Acorn, the new managed child savings account, will be established; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Staff
    733. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff employed in her Department's equality division and at which grades. [32769/25]
  • Nursing Homes
    734. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will prepare a dedicated nursing home care policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32772/25]
  • Judicial Reviews
    736. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of judicial review cases her Department has defended in each of the past ten years; the number in...
  • Departmental Legal Cases
    737. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of legal cases defended by her Department and or the HSE in each of the past ten years in respect of...

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