Written answers
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Department of Children, Disability and Equality
- Parental Leave
518. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider increasing the number of days for parental leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50008/25] - Disability Services
519. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of respite care facilities operated by HSE or funded partners which are available to children with disabilities in Cork... - Departmental Communications
524. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the planned playground for Newbridge, County Kildare. [49579/25] - Middle East
525. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by her Department in the past two... - Health Services Waiting Lists
527. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children waiting to access speech and language therapy in the CHO7 area, by CDNT, in tabular form; the number of those... - Departmental Funding
528. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the funding status for SOS Kilkenny’s respite services; to outline when the funding that has been promised will be released;... - Education and Training Provision
530. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on the opposite trends in the direction of preschool (decreasing) and school age (increasing) services over the past... - Childcare Services
531. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of ECCE-only services, by county, in 2020 to 2024 by year; her definition of ECCE-only services; and if she will... - Disability Services
532. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of part-time only services by county in 2020 to 2024 by year; her definition of part-time services; and if she will... - Departmental Data
533. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of sessional services by county in 2020 to 2024 by year; her definition of sessional only services; and if she will... - Childcare Services
534. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of children supported by income-assessed childcare subsidies, by county, in 2020 to 2024, by year; and if she will... - Childcare Qualifications
540. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of Tusla registered childminders, by county, in 2020 to 2024, by year. [49798/25] - Departmental Funding
541. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will consider adjusting core funding allocations for services caring for children aged zero to one years of age in... - Departmental Policies
542. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the policy measures her Department is considering to address the high demand for baby room places including in Dublin mid-west where... - Childcare Services
543. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the development of a forward planning model to identify and compare areas in terms of childcare need; and if she... - Departmental Data
546. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number and percentage of applications for an assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005 that were completed within the... - Disability Services
548. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the expected date by which the proposed private panel for autism and disability assessments will be operational; the criteria that... - Departmental Funding
549. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the additional funding allocated in 2025 to address the waiting list for assessments of need; if this funding is being provided from... - Disability Services
550. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures being put in place to ensure equitable access to autism and disability assessments under the private panel across all... - Departmental Data
551. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reporting requirements that will apply to providers under the new private panel for assessments; if she will publish quarterly... - Childcare Services
552. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware of the lack of sufficient childcare services, particularly after school programmes in Cork (details supplied); the... - Departmental Data
553. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of community disability network teams in the State; the locations of the teams; the number of CDNTs that are fully... - Departmental Schemes
554. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the details of the evaluation of the national childcare scheme promised for 2025; the status of the evaluation; the timeline for... - Departmental Data
555. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently waiting to be seen by CDNTs in the CHO2 area, by team and number of weeks waiting; and if she will... - Disability Services
557. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her Department’s engagement with disabled persons’ organizations and other disability stakeholders in the preparation... - Juvenile Offenders
564. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if he has plans to increase the number of places which allow for the incarceration of individuals under the age of 17 years who have... - Departmental Projects
565. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the action being taken on foot of the post-acute inpatient rehabilitation mapping project; and if she will make a statement on the... - Departmental Strategies
566. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to publish an updated national strategy for women and girls, and tackle gender inequality. [50234/25] - Disability Services
567. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will provide a manual application form for enduring powers of attorney through the DSS (details supplied) as the... - Childcare Services
568. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on phase 2 of the National Action Plan for Childminding 2021-2028; and if she will make a statement on... - Departmental Data
569. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 2032 of 8 September 2025, wherein he indicated that the Section 38 and HSE disability... - Grant Payments
570. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reasons the application of an organisation (details supplied) was not successful in progressing to the next stage of the process... - Childcare Services
571. 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... - Departmental Data
572. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of vacancies, by job title in each children's disability network team based within Mayo; the expected timeframe for... - Departmental Expenditure
576. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount of expenditure on off-site storage solutions for the past five years to date; if she will provide a breakdown of items...
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