Written answers

Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

 
  • Disability Services
    761. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of vacancies by job title at Kilbarrack children's disability network team; the time frame for filling each of those...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    762. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reasons for a 20 month waiting time for an assessment of needs of a person in Laois (details supplied); and if she will make a...
  • Disability Services
    763. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding a facility (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54648/25]
  • After-School Support Services
    764. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54688/25]
  • Care Services
    765. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware that only 15 of the 26 High Court-directed special care beds in the State are currently operational due to ongoing...
  • Child and Family Agency
    771. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline the outcome of Tusla’s recent overseas recruitment campaign for special care staff; the total cost of this...
  • Childcare Services
    777. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update regarding the gradual reduction of childcare costs, as committed to in the Programme for Government; the steps she has...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    778. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will review the case of a non-verbal autistic child (details supplied), who has been neglected by the State in the...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education
    779. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when she anticipates the new building blocks scheme will open for applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Departmental Schemes
    780. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department have given any further consideration to improving flexibility in the NCS scheme; and if she will make a statement...
  • Departmental Contracts
    781. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there are any technical, legal, operational, or policy constraints preventing her Department, when publishing quarterly reports...
  • Departmental Circulars
    782. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if all contracting authorities under the aegis of her Department are in full compliance with Circular 05/2023, in particular the...
  • Family Resource Centres
    783. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the funding opportunities available under her Department's remit to secure permanent funding for a play therapist at a family...
  • Residential Institutions
    784. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the person or body which is responsible for overseeing the operation of residential care services in a housing estate (details...
  • Departmental Reports
    786. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by her Department that were outsourced, in each of the past five...
  • Childcare Services
    787. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current status of the national childcare strategy; when a formal strategy document is expected to be published; if stakeholder...
  • Research Funding
    792. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware of a rehabilitation programme based at DCU involving the use of exoskeleton technology to support individuals with...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    793. 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...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    794. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department and each body under its aegis discloses expenditure on external consultancy and adviser fees, by category (details...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education
    795. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the plans her Department has to progressively reduce the cost of early learning and childcare to €200 per month per child...
  • EU Presidency
    796. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide information on the funding being provided for child and youth participation during Ireland’s EU...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    797. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline the efforts her Department is making to address waiting lists for those awaiting an assessment of need; if she will...

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