• Departmental Strategies
  2253. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the cross-departmental strategies being developed to make parenthood more accessible and less burdensome. [42553/25]
• Disability Services
  2254. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plan, timeline and cost to increase support for people with disabilities to access supported independent living; the provision...
• Disabilities Assessments
  2255. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of assessments of need overdue for completion at the end of quarter 2 2025, by area, in tabular form; and the mean time...
• Children in Care
  2258. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children in care who are in their third placement or greater within the previous 12-months in each of the years 2020,...
• Childcare Services
  2259. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps being taken to address the problem of childcare providers exiting the core funding scheme; if a review into the core...
• Health Services Staff
  2260. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE dietitians, by grade based at south Louth children's disability network team in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in...
• Departmental Legal Services
  2262. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total spend by her Department on external legal services in each of the past three years; the main areas of legal activity for...
• Departmental Legal Cases
  2263. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount spent on legal fees associated with litigation, advice and settlements in each of the past three years by her Department...
• Childcare Services
  2264. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to increase investment in childcare infrastructure and expand creche and after-school service...
• Disability Services
  2266. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will commit to providing ring-fenced funding to address the current and historic financial deficits experienced by voluntary...
• Childcare Services
  2267. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when funding from TUSLA of €28,000 will be provided to an organisation (details supplied). [40977/25]
• Flexible Work Practices
  2268. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update as of July 2025 on the Programme for Government commitment to promote flexible working arrangements that benefit both...
• Youth Services
  2270. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the procedure for establishing an aftercare, over 18, package for a young person in the care of Tusla; the circumstances in which...
• Disability Services
  2271. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to examine the case of a person (details supplied) requiring funding-support for daily transport; and if she will make a statement...
• Childcare Services
  2273. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if he will make childcare affordable by increasing the subsidy and threshold for the national childcare scheme; and if she will...
• Grant Payments
  2274. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the total value...
• Childcare Services
  2275. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a case will be examined (details supplied) where a childcare provider who withdrew from core funding last year and increased its...
• Children in Care
  2277. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children or young people either in State care, or previously known to child protection services, who have died in...
• Child Protection
  2278. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of unborn children placed on the child protection notification system in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025....
• Child Abuse
  2279. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of reports of child sexual abuse made to Tusla, in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025; the number made by...
• Children in Care
  2280. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of unaccompanied minors currently in State care. [41126/25]
• Disability Services
  2281. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding a long-term residential place for a person in Cork (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
• Childcare Services
  2282. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the planned investment in sustainable childcare infrastructure in Budget 2025, both at national and local level. [41159/25]
• Early Childhood Care and Education
  2283. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of funding allocated for new or expanded early years services in the Dublin 3, 5, 9, 13 and 17...
• Childcare Services
  2284. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps being taken to support the financial viability of community-based childcare providers facing rising operational costs....
• Legislative Process
  2290. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the Equality and Family Leave (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill will be presented for debate in the Oireachtas; and if she will...
• Family Resource Centres
  2291. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the status of an application (details supplied) for a community centre to join the family resource centre; and if she will make a...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2292. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will increase funding for the waiting list initiative to clear the waiting list and backlog for the assessment of need...
• Child Protection
  2293. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality regarding the 96,666 child protection and welfare referrals received by Tusla in 2024, the number that were subsequently assessed...
• Children in Care
  2294. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide, for each calendar year from 2020 to 2024 inclusive, and for the period January to June 2025, the number of...
• Child Protection
  2295. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to a matter raised by this Deputy during Topical Issues in the Dáil chamber on Thursday 10...
• Early Childhood Care and Education
  2296. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will allocate €10 million to establish local, publicly run early childhood, education and care services, beginning...
• Childcare Services
  2297. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to cases whereby childcare centres that have no refund policies regarding deposits and upfront...
• Care Services
  2298. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the level of respite services available in Cavan and Monaghan for children and for adults; the further proposals to extend the...
• Legislative Process
  2299. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the Health Assisted Human Reproduction Act 2024 will commence; if maternity leave entitlement will be included for people...
• Family Resource Centres
  2300. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to review correspondence (details supplied); to outline the supports available on rents for a family resource centre; and if she...
• Child Protection
  2301. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the timeframe for a review of a case by Tusla (details supplied). [41326/25]
• Mother and Baby Homes
  2302. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will undertake a review of the restriction on using first cousin DNA to link with the DNA of babies exhumed from the Tuam...
• Disabilities Assessments
  2303. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children referred for an autism spectrum disorder assessment to a CNDT (details supplied) team through either the...
• Childcare Services
  2306. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the €200 monthly subsidy for families with children attending early years and school age care, as committed to in the...
• Early Childhood Care and Education
  2307. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware that Kerry has an early years staff turnover rate of 25%, above the national average; and the measures she intends...
• Rural Schemes
  2313. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a targeted rural childcare investment strategy is being considered to address specific workforce retention and sustainability...
• Disability Services
  2314. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason children with autism spectrum disorder in County Kerry no longer receive the previously standard six-week block of...
• Disability Diagnoses
  2317. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider implementing a national policy to review ASD diagnoses in key educational transition years, 1st, 2nd, and 6th...
• Care Services
  2318. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the efforts being made to increase capacity at overnight respite centres serving Kerry families (details supplied); and whether...
• Disability Services
  2320. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason such a small proportion of families accessing disability services in Kerry are currently assigned key workers under the...
• Childcare Services
  2324. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to urgently address the issues outlined by Childminding Ireland (details supplied) as the sector is on the brink of collapse; and...
• Disability Services
  2326. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of current staff vacancies across children's disability network teams in County Meath; the breakdown of these vacancies,...
• Early Childhood Care and Education
  2327. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will address the issue whereby recommendations from speech and language therapists who are registered with CORU, but operate...
• Departmental Legal Cases
  2329. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if all external legal fees incurred by her Department, and by any bodies under its aegis, are charged at negotiated discounted...
• Disabilities Assessments
  2336. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children awaiting an assessment of needs in the CHO 7 area; the number of children waiting longer than 12 months; and...
• Disability Services
  2337. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children in the CHO 7 area currently waiting to access therapies by the CDNT, by category of therapy, in tabular...
• Disabilities Assessments
  2339. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently on a waiting list with the NCSE for an assessment of needs; the number of children on a waiting...
• Children in Care
  2340. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of foster carers regarding the need to increase access to therapeutic supports for...
• Childcare Services
  2344. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of parents who fall under fee band F in relation to their childcare fees; if the...
• Children in Care
  2345. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to ensure that financial support is addressed in Budget 2026 around therapeutic supports for children in care, through expanded and...
• Early Childhood Care and Education
  2347. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is concerned that early years educators are having difficulty accessing mortgages due to having to sign on to jobseekers...
• Disability Services
  2348. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the CDNTs within CHO1 that currently have vacant psychologist posts; the estimated timeframe for filling each of those vacancies,...
• Children in Care
  2350. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will introduce measures (details supplied) in Budget 2026, to support foster carers; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Disability Services
  2351. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of day-only and nighttime respite places available for children in the integrated health areas of Dublin north, and...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2352. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the breakdown of the number of children on waiting lists in the children’s disability network teams of Coolock, Kilbarrack...
• Disability Services
  2355. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of referrals received for an assessment of need with the children's disability network team in CHO6 Wicklow and CHO7...
• Child and Family Agency
  2356. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the five new family resource centres will be announced by Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41925/25]
• Disability Services
  2357. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of child physiotherapists in CHO6 and CHO7, County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41927/25]
• Ambulance Service
  2361. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a child safety officer has been appointed to St John’s Ambulance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41944/25]
• Departmental Programmes
  2362. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will be working alongside the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to support and implement the...
• Programme for Government
  2363. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department has conducted the assessment of access referenced in the Programme for Government to finance and financial...
• Departmental Inquiries
  2364. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 313 of 10 July 2025, the reply from the HSE furnished to me on 5 July 2025, if he will direct...
• Parental Leave
  2365. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the establishment of maternity, paternity and adoptive leave policies for all elected representatives; and if she...
• Childcare Services
  2366. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the engagement her Department have had with childcare providers to determine how to reduce the administrative burden on providers;...
• Departmental Administrative Arrangements
  2367. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress her Department has made in trying to reduce the administrative burden on providers; and if she will make a statement...
• Childcare Services
  2368. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on planned changes to the planning guidelines for childcare facilities to facilitate more applications; and if she...
• Education Schemes
  2372. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress that has been made by her Department to host state led after school care and support start up supports for groups...
• Health Service Executive
  2373. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question number 313 of 10 July 2025, if the Minister seek further clarification to matter (details...
• Disability Services
  2374. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount of State funding that was provided to private operators of disability services in Wicklow in 2020-2025; and if she will...
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2377. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality Further to Parliamentary Question No. 341 of 22 May 2025, to provide details of each employer of the 93 CDNTs (detail supplied);...
• Childcare Services
  2378. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures she will be undertaking to assist for childcare costs for working families; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Insurance Coverage
  2381. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the actions she will take to reduce increasing insurance costs for childcare providers; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Early Childhood Care and Education
  2382. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a crèche place for a child (details supplied) will be made available; to outline any interventions that can be made for the...
• Childcare Services
  2383. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the commitments in the Programme for Government that have been commenced in relation to making childcare more affordable for...
• Paternity Leave
  2386. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the way in which her Department encourages the take-up of statutory leave for fathers; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Departmental Priorities
  2387. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the plans her Department are working on to tackle the falling birth rate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42167/25]
• Early Childhood Care and Education
  2388. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress being made to ensure the Review of Early Learning and Care and School Age Childcare operating system in Ireland will...
• Departmental Correspondence
  2389. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she uses personal emails for her Government business; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42170/25]
• Social Workers Register
  2391. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of social workers and family support workers employed by Tusla working in the Wicklow area from the years...
• Traveller Community
  2392. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the breakdown of the amount of funding that was allocated to an organisation (details supplied) in the years 2020-2025. [42203/25]
• Disability Services
  2393. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will outline how the Government intends to explore and implement proven intensive, interdisciplinary therapy models...
• Mother and Baby Homes
  2394. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the use of a cadaver dog has been considered to investigate parts of the Tuam site that are not being excavated; and if she will...
• Disability Services
  2395. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the details of the respite houses available to young adults with disabilities in the town of Clonmel; the location; who operates...
• Family Resource Centres
  2396. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is considering the creation of a capital funding stream to support the building of new or refurbishment or extension of...
• Disabilities Assessments
  2397. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures being taken to reduce the waiting times for children awaiting an assessment of need; the average waiting time by...
• Childcare Services
  2398. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childminders who have registered with Tusla and are part of the national childcare scheme since the expansion of the...
• Children in Care
  2399. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the up-to-date position regarding her engagement with the relevant stakeholders including foster families, on the proposed national...
• Disability Services
  2400. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of persons with disabilities that received home support hours in CH04 up to July 2025; the number of persons with...
• Employment Schemes
  2402. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide the up-to-date position on meeting the 6% target for employment of people with disabilities in the public...
• Assisted Human Reproduction
  2403. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she intends to engage with and meet groups representing parents and families of children conceived through surrogacy and...
• Departmental Expenditure
  2405. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount spent by her Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date...
• Assisted Decision-Making
  2406. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding any engagement with a group (details supplied) as part of the progression of the Assisted Decision Making...
• Public Procurement Contracts
  2411. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to state whether her Department or any agency operating under its aegis has, in the past five years, used reserved contracts or...
• Early Childhood Care and Education
  2412. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the timeline for the establishment of the National Agency for Early Learning and Childcare; the interim measures being taken to...
• Childcare Services
  2413. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the fiscal supports being considered by her Department to alleviate the burden of childcare costs; and if she will make a statement...
• Disability Services
  2415. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason people with alcohol-related brain injuries are excluded from community neurorehabilitation services; to outline the...
• Disabilities Assessments
  2418. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average wait time for assessment of needs referrals, by regional health area and integrated healthcare area, in tabular form....
• Disability Services
  2420. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will urgently review the case of a person (details supplied) who has been waiting over 15 months for an appointment with a...
• Disabilities Assessments
  2421. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children and young persons on waiting lists for an assessment of need, by health region and integrated healthcare...
• Disability Services
  2422. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children on a waiting list for speech and language therapy by health region and integrated healthcare area; age...
• Oireachtas Committees
  2431. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of times the Cabinet Committee on Children, Education and Disability has met since the formation of the current...
• Disability Services
  2432. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality in view of the recent announcement by a service provider (details supplied) if she is willing to release emergency funding to...
• Family Support Services
  2433. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding whether kinship carers with a formal agreement have the same rights as foster carers. [42773/25]
• Disability Services
  2435. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE play therapist posts that were filled at east Clare Children's disability network team in the years of 2023, 2024...
• Childcare Services
  2438. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to consider introducing a cap or ban on administrative fees charged by crèches for placing children on waiting lists; and if...
• Assisted Decision-Making
  2443. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if future decision support services will accept paper submissions to register an enduring power of attorney for elderly or...
• Disabilities Assessments
  2444. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the Autism Assessments and Interventions Pathway Protocol Project; and if she will make a...
• Health Services Waiting Lists
  2446. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children on CDNT waiting lists in Kerry, broken down by team and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will...
• Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
  2447. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of vacancies that exist in CDNTs in County Kerry, by CDNT region, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
• Childcare Services
  2448. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the capital allocations that have been granted to her Department as part of the National Development Plan; whether any allocations...
• Disability Services
  2449. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the urgent actions her Department will take to address the backlog of over 14,000 overdue assessments of need for children...
• Early Childhood Care and Education
  2451. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality given the Government’s commitment to expanding affordable and accessible early education and school age childcare, if she...
• Disabilities Assessments
  2453. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when a child (details supplied) will be called for their assessment of need appointment; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Capital Expenditure Programme
  2454. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the details of the capital funding programmes or grants which her Department or any body under her aegis has responsibility, for...
• Departmental Schemes
  2456. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children, by county, who benefitted from supports under the national childcare scheme in 2023, 2024 and 2025, in...
• Legislative Measures
  2457. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on proposals for legislation to ban conversion practices; when she will bring Heads of Bill to Cabinet; and if she...
• Departmental Funding
  2458. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the LGBTI+ Community Services Fund will fund the outhouse community casework service in 2026; and if she will make a...
• Health Services Staff
  2459. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the independent review of low pay in Section 39 organisations will commence as committed to in the 2025 WRC agreement; the...
• Disabilities Assessments
  2460. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children as of 1 July 2025, or latest date available, that were awaiting a first assessment of need from the HSE...
• Child Protection
  2463. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her position on the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; and if she will...
• Child and Family Agency
  2464. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress made on the reform of Tusla and improvements to child protection services; the level of funding allocated to family...
• Disabilities Assessments
  2465. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total cost of assessments of needs commissioned by the HSE, per each respective provider, in each of the years 2022, 2023, 2024...
• Ministerial Responsibilities
  2471. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the responsibilities that have been devolved to the Minister of State with responsibility for Disability; and if she will make a...
• Disability Services
  2472. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline her plans regarding the ongoing research and planning on the development of assistive technologies to be used to assist...
• Disabilities Assessments
  2474. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans for assessing the best means of carrying out assessments of needs and therapies provision for those with autism; and if...
• Disability Services
  2477. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the positions that are unfilled by the CDNT team, in tabular form; the plans to fill these; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Children in Care
  2479. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the engagement there has been with foster carers to deliver on their asks regarding the foster...
• Child and Family Agency
  2480. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on early child and family interventions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43552/25]
• Disability Services
  2481. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the positions and teams unfilled for community neuro rehabilitation teams, by region, in tabular...
• Childcare Services
  2487. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to address the cost of childcare in areas like Dublin Rathdown, where the cost is above the...
• Early Childhood Care and Education
  2488. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department has engaged with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science on ensuring...
• Departmental Staff
  2491. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of full time equivalents directly employed by her Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form. [43653/25]
• Departmental Equipment
  2492. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for better...
• Disability Services
  2493. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the status of respite funding for adults with intellectual disabilities and autism in counties Carlow and...
• Children in Care
  2494. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider the recommendations put forward by an organisation (details supplied) in its pre-budget submission 2026,...
• Disability Services
  2496. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider supporting the introduction of a 10% candidate quota for people with disabilities on party ballots, in line...
• Departmental Funding
  2497. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she plans to sanction the final €5 million in funding needed to complete a complex (details supplied) which would,...
• Disability Services
  2500. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she plans to provide a community neuro-rehabilitation team in the Dublin and north-east region noting that they do not currently...
• Childcare Services
  2501. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to confirm that consideration would be given to reforming the core funding model for childcare centres, to provide additional...
• Children in Care
  2503. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost of increasing foster care allowance rates by €15 or €25, or alternatively index linking it to...
• Childcare Services
  2505. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the current funding streams for childcare; the breakdown of the additional funding provided in...
• Early Childhood Care and Education
  2507. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the additional funding required to increase funding for the ECCE scheme by 10%; if she will provide a breakdown of those proposed...
• Departmental Data
  2508. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the timeframe for when additional funding will be provided for a service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
• Disability Services
  2509. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider collecting and publishing data on the average number of overnight respite beds and a record of respite bed...
• Departmental Policies
  2511. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she or her Department plan to alter the current departmental description of autism spectrum disorder as an umbrella term, with...
• Disability Services
  2513. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to move from an emergency-based approach to a planned, rights-based model of disability support;...
• Disabilities Assessments
  2514. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the actions her Department is taking to reduce the backlog of over 14,000 overdue assessments of need for children with...
• Departmental Funding
  2515. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will outline any new funding or staffing measures being put in place to clear the assessment of need backlog, particularly...
• Disabilities Assessments
  2516. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the timeframe within which she expects the current backlog in disability assessments and supports for children to be resolved; and...
• Disability Services
  2518. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the progress being made on rolling out the national information management system for children's disability...
• Departmental Policies
  2520. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to ensure the implementation of the public sector equality and human rights duty in the...
• Public Procurement Contracts
  2521. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to ensure the implementation of the public sector equality and human rights duty in the public...
• Departmental Funding
  2522. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated total recurring and accumulated funding deficits reported by State-funded service providers across the childcare and...
• Public Sector Pay
  2523. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated total cost of aligning section 39 provider pay scales with pay scales in the statutory disability services sector....
• Home Help Service
  2525. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost of increasing personal assistance hours by at least 270,000. [44329/25]
• Disability Services
  2527. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost of prioritising 460 people under 65 with a disability to move from family homes, congregated settings and...
• Early Childhood Care and Education
  2533. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if consideration will be given to allocating funding for after-school facilities as part of the National Development Plan Review...
• Disabilities Assessments
  2534. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the waiting times for assessments of need for Q1 and Q2 in 2025 with a breakdown, by county; and if she will make a statement on...

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