Written answers
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Department of Children, Disability and Equality
- Childcare Services
467. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on a complaint regarding the breach of core funding rules by a service provider (details supplied); the length... - Disability Services
468. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of funded speech and language therapist and occupational therapist posts that are currently in place in the Irish health... - Family Resource Centres
469. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the options available to a family resource centre desperately in need of more space, which owns its own site and is seeking funds to... - Disabilities Assessments
470. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on an assessment for autism for a person (detail supplied); if the full range of services required arising from the... - Disability Services
471. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to provide the Clonmel Children's Disability Network Team with its own dedicated space as the service currently shares a... - Disabilities Assessments
478. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children as of 1st November 2025 or latest date available that were awaiting a first assessment from the HSE under the... - Family Resource Centres
482. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the options available to an existing family resource centre, under the national forum to buy a premises as a permanent home in order... - Artificial Intelligence
483. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the type of training provided to staff within her Department in the use of, or understanding of artificial intelligence; if a... - Childcare Services
484. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the actions her Department is taking to increase childcare capacity in Dublin Bay North, given the growing number of parents who... - Early Childhood Care and Education
485. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current supports and planned measures to expand the number of early learning and childcare places nationally and within Dublin... - Childcare Services
486. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to reduce the reliance of parents on childminders, where families are unable to access a... - Child and Family Agency
488. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total amount of funding provided by Tusla to an organisation (details supplied); to outline the oversight and safeguarding... - Childcare Services
489. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to examine the case of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [67557/25] - Disabilities Assessments
490. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the assessment of need appointment for a person (details supplied). [67560/25] - Disability Services
491. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE behavioural therapist posts that was filled at Blakestown children's disability network team in the years of 2024... - Family Resource Centres
492. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when a decision will be made on the ten family resource centres to be included in the national forum and annual funding as per... - Child and Family Agency
493. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason a service (details supplied) is being closed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [67815/25] - Childcare Services
494. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of unannounced inspections carried out on subcontracted private childcare providers in each of the past three years; the... - Disabilities Assessments
495. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average waiting time for assessment of needs in County Wexford; the steps which are being taken to reduce waiting times in... - Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
496. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a list of agencies under her Department’s remit who currently receive training on recognising and responding to... - Child and Family Agency
497. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will request TUSLA to provide details of the number of persons for each year between 2021 to date in 2025, who they have... - Departmental Correspondence
499. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will address matters and concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); if another service will be put in place if... - Childcare Services
500. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 160 of 12 November 2025, if she will provide a copy of the independent external review of the... - State Bodies
502. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware that Pobal is withholding the 3% pay increase as agreed in Building Momentum; if this is acceptable to her; and if... - Early Childhood Care and Education
504. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the building blocks extension scheme will open again for 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68007/25] - Childcare Services
505. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a copy of the independent external review of the draft Childminding Regulations which was carried out by a person... - Mother and Baby Homes
506. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the expected publication date for the annual mother and baby institutions payment scheme report; and if she will make a statement on... - Childcare Services
507. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware that a childcare provider in Louth (details supplied) has left the Core Funding system; if additional support can be... - Early Childhood Care and Education
508. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the plans for any reforms to ensure that rural based early years services remain within the Core Funding system; and if she will... - Disability Services
510. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the cost of residential disability services provided by for-profit companies; and for a breakdown of costs for child and adult... - Child Protection
513. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when a report by the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection will be published; if she Minister has received the report; and if she... - Disabilities Assessments
514. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the financial cost to the state of legal defences taken on cases where families have taken the State to court for failing to provide... - Disability Services
515. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will request the Disability Unit in her Department to evaluate a situation (details supplied). [68527/25]
No comments