Written answers
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Department of Children, Disability and Equality
- Care Services
987. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the list of the counties in which home share is available for those seeking respite; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Psychological Assessments
988. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children awaiting an assessment of need in primary care in County Longford for 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; and if... - Childcare Services
989. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the initiatives planned by Government to support the establishment of new childcare and preschool facilities in communities where... - Ministerial Responsibilities
990. 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
991. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans in relation to the ongoing research and planning on the development of assistive technologies to be used to assist... - Departmental Projects
992. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the status of progress of a pilot project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47557/25] - Disabilities Assessments
993. 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... - Health Services Waiting Lists
994. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the waiting lists for those awaiting assessment of needs, by time and county; the projected waiting list by the end of 2025, in... - Departmental Staff
997. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the unfilled positions, by CDNT team; the plans to fill these; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47562/25] - Social Welfare Benefits
999. 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 requests regarding the foster... - Early Childhood Care and Education
1000. 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. [47565/25] - Departmental Staff
1001. 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; the plans to... - Disability Services
1003. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans, the timeline and estimated cost to deliver around 1,200 additional day service places each year to ensure places for... - Health Services
1004. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans, the timeline and estimated cost to deliver 800,000 additional personal assistance hours, and 110,000 additional home... - Disability Services
1005. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans, the timeline and estimated cost for continued expansion of respite services, including alternative respite options such... - Low Pay
1008. 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; if she... - Departmental Strategies
1009. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the national disability strategy and the plans to implement it will be published; and if she will make a statement on the... - Public Procurement Contracts
1011. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide the web links to her Department’s Q1 2025 and Q2 2025 published reports of procurement-related payments or... - Early Childhood Care and Education
1013. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on a building blocks extension grant (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47829/25] - Family Resource Centres
1014. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will list the new family resource centres provided since 2020, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the... - Child Protection
1015. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when Tusla closed the case with the young boy from north Dublin who is currently believed to be dead; and the other State agencies,... - Family Support Services
1018. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps she is taking to strengthen families in order that they are better equipped to raise their children. [47903/25] - Child Protection
1019. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children that have gone missing from State services in 2025 to date and for each of the past five years. [47904/25] - Children in Care
1020. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of reports sent to the Gardaí for crimes that were committed against children while they were in State care over... - Child Protection
1021. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of Tusla cases involving individual children that have been closed, for each of the past 15 years. [47906/25] - Family Resource Centres
1022. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of senior management in a resource centre (details supplied) related to the... - Child Protection
1023. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she accepts the Ombudsman for Children's finding that the National Review Panel is "not a powerful vehicle" and "disrespectful... - Childcare Services
1029. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures being taken by her Department to increase the provision of childcare services in east Cork given the current high... - Mother and Baby Homes
1030. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to examine an application for a person (details supplied) under the mother and baby payments scheme; the way in which a review of... - Home Care Packages
1031. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason a person with a major brain injury (details supplied), whose family need extra home support hours, cannot receive the... - Disability Services
1033. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current average waiting times for an occupational therapy appointment at Cavan children's disability network team, CDNT; and if... - Home Care Packages
1038. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the list of the counties in which home share is available for those seeking respite; and if she will make a statement on the... - Departmental Contracts
1039. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the current contract with a respite centre for children (details supplied) is due to expire; if it is proposed to extend that... - Disability Services
1040. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the status of a new children’s disability respite centre in Monaghan; the additional respite places that will be available... - Child and Family Agency
1051. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide the number of children on the books of Tusla; the number of children who have gone missing from Tusla care in the past... - Ombudsman for Children
1052. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline the powers available to the Ombudsman for Children to investigate any body or bodies, who have responsibility in any way... - Budget 2026
1053. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to prioritise in the Budget 2026 the chronic shortage of respite beds in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the... - Child Protection
1054. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will bring forward legislation to establish a statutory independent review mechanism for cases involving the death or... - Child and Family Agency
1055. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will set out the Department’s current procedures for data quality assurance of Tusla case management systems; if she... - Disabilities Assessments
1056. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total cost of outsourcing assessments of need in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, by Health Region-CHO. [48141/25] - Departmental Policies
1057. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the consideration that has been given to extend still birth leave in cases in which babies are born at 18-weeks; and if she will... - Child and Family Agency
1058. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the date Tusla first became aware of fraud convictions regarding persons connected to a service provider (details supplied);... - Child Protection
1064. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if all special emergency arrangement providers have undergone a post-case audit since April 2023; the number audited and the number... - Disability Services
1065. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current number of adults with an intellectual disability waiting for residential placements nationwide, by health region and... - Parental Leave
1067. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider extending the parental leave scheme past the existing 962 hours, in recognition of the challenges parents are... - Child Protection
1068. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason and the basis on which, the case of a missing child in Donabate has been referred by Tusla to the National Review Panel... - Ombudsman for Children
1072. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the actions her Department is taking on foot of the Ombudsman for Children’s child death report to ensure that a... - Childcare Services
1075. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of early years services, excluding child minders, which have signed up to the core funding partnership from September... - Departmental Strategies
1078. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the organisations she consulted in the preparation of the National Human Right Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030; the reason... - Home Help Service
1079. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the allocation of additional home support services care for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make... - Disability Services
1080. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE vacancies, by job title at the children's disability network team in Cashel, County Tipperary; and the timeframe... - Disabilities Assessments
1082. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of persons under 18 years-of-age who are on an autism assessment waiting list in County Wexford; the length of time on... - Disability Services
1083. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of student placements, by discipline offered to children's disability network teams within CHO5 in 2024 and to date in... - Child and Family Agency
1084. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of child protection officers working with Tusla in 2023, 2024 and 2025. [48475/25] - Early Childhood Care and Education
1085. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to examine concerns raised in correspondence regarding ECCE scheme eligibility (details supplied); and if she will make a statement... - Legislative Programme
1086. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality that status of the drafting of legislation to ban conversion practices; when she expects to bring the heads of Bill to Cabinet for... - Childcare Services
1087. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the capital funding supports available to enable the development of new early years facilities in communities with no existing... - Disability Services
1088. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will review the current funding model for disability day services, particularly the standard six-hour day, with a view to... - Health Services
1096. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current number of children waiting for speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and psychology services in south... - Disability Services
1098. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if funding awarded to organisations through the Children’s Disability Grant Fund has been received by the organisations; if... - Health Services
1099. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the timeline for the full national rollout of community neurorehabilitation teams; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Disabilities Assessments
1101. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children in Donegal that have been identified as requiring respite in their assessment of need; the efforts being... - Departmental Policies
1102. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she plans to extend the two-year period for when parents can claim parents' benefit after their child is born; and if she will... - Statutory Instruments
1103. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a list of all statutory instruments signed by her in 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the... - Disability Services
1104. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a residential placement will be provided for a person (details supplied). [48779/25] - Homeless Accommodation
1105. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the approach of Tusla to housing pregnant homeless people where there are welfare issues. [48820/25] - Departmental Policies
1106. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will recognise the role of school assistance dogs within the implementation framework of the National Human Rights Strategy... - Early Childhood Care and Education
1108. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to consider removing the age eligibility of two years and eight months by 31 August for the free ECCE scheme, allowing children to... - Childcare Services
1109. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will ensure that a Montessori operating an inclusive model of education and care (details supplied) is not forced to reduce... - Departmental Policies
1110. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will ensure that inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is formally considered by the Cabinet Committee on Disability, in order... - Departmental Programmes
1111. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the location of each young parent support programme; the catchment for each of these young parent support programmes, in tabular...
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