Written answers

Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

 
  • Family Support Services
    157. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the gaps in support for kinship carers and their families will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Disabilities Assessments
    158. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of parents who have put in a complaint regarding their child not receiving an assessment of needs in a timely manner; the...
  • Disability Services
    159. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the additional funding allocated to residential placements for adults with an intellectual disability in 2025; the...
  • Family Resource Centres
    160. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if he will make provision in the forthcoming Budget to allow for an increase in core funding of the Family Resource Centres of...
  • Childcare Services
    161. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she has considered the impact of the automatic enrolment retirement savings system on childcare providers as an additional cost;...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    164. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware of the case of a child (details supplied) whose mother applied for an Assessment of Need on 16 June 2024 under the...
  • Mental Health Services
    165. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to address the waiting times for students referred from schools, to Child and Adolescent Mental...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    167. 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
    168. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number and percentage of persons with a disability who are in receipt of less than their full allocation of home support at the...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    171. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of assessments of needs overdue for completion at the end of quarter three for each year to date, in tabular form [52499/25]
  • Disability Services
    174. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children on waiting lists for initial contact with a children’s disability network team at the end of September...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    176. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total spend in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 on insourcing and outsourcing of assessments of need, in tabular form. [52589/25]
  • Disability Services
    177. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total spend in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 on insourcing and outsourcing of disability services, by service type, in tabular...

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