Written answers
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Department of Children, Disability and Equality
- Assisted Decision-Making
133. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a decision-making representation order is required for a relative of a person in residential services to request a second opinion... - Disabilities Assessments
134. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality in light of the ongoing delays in the provision of assessments of need and therapeutic supports, and the well-documented crisis in... - Disability Services
135. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if he will outline the measures being taken to address the inconsistency and disruption in therapy services experienced by young... - Childcare Services
136. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 208 of 2 July 2025, if she is aware of concerns from childcare providers about how complex and... - Early Childhood Care and Education
139. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the provisions being put in place for a child (details supplied) and other children with special needs who have lost access to... - Gender Equality
140. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline the expected timeline for the transposition for the EU Pay Transparency Directive, indicating in any assistance that will... - Child Protection
141. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the UNCRC Second Optional Protocol will be ratified before the summer recess (details supplied); and if he will provide an... - Disabilities Assessments
142. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of assessments of need conducted in each local health area or community healthcare network in 2023 and 2024 and to date... - Disability Services
144. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children on waiting lists for initial contact for each children’s disability network team at the end of June in... - Disabilities Assessments
146. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total spend on insourcing and outsourcing of assessments of need in 2023, 2024, and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [38133/25] - Disability Services
147. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total spend on insourcing and outsourcing of disability services, by service type, in 2023, 2024, and to date in 2025, in... - Disabilities Assessments
148. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number and percentage of assessments of need completed within timelines as provided for in regulations in each quarter for each... - Disability Services
149. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number and percentage of people with a disability who are in receipt of less than their full allocation of home support at the... - Childcare Services
152. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will address concerns raised about childcare provision in Kilcullen (details supplied); the plans her Department has for... - Departmental Expenditure
153. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her Department's expenditure on media training in each of the years 2015 to 2025; the firms contracted to provide training; and the...
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