Written answers
Thursday, 18 December 2025
Department of Children, Disability and Equality
- Early Childhood Care and Education
595. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline progress on the programme for Government commitment to expand arts programming in early childhood education. [73332/25] - Child Detention Centres
596. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline the plans in place to increase capacity at Oberstown Children Detention Campus, including any timelines for delivery; and... - Children in Care
597. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current number of children in State care; and the steps her Department is taking to protect them from harm. [71835/25] - Disability Services
598. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will outline the current support provided for personalised budgets; her plans to expand this scheme to better support people... - Disabilities Assessments
600. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to address the waiting list for assessment of needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [72809/25] - Child Poverty
601. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to address child poverty before the Christmas period and further through the winter; and if she will make a statement on... - Disability Services
602. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of residential respite beds required in Dublin South-Central for adults with disabilities, over 18 years-of-age; and if... - Departmental Policies
604. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality and Equality if she will review the decision not to provide a Christmas bonus to foster carers in 2025; and if she will make a... - Childcare Services
605. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to ensure more childcare providers join and-or remain in core funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Disability Services
606. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason for the delay in issuing funding to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73299/25] - Children in Care
613. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she is aware that an organisation (details supplied) in Cork will be closing mid-January; and whether she will intervene to... - Care Services
614. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the funding provided in each of the past five years for an organisation (details supplied) in Cork. [73404/25] - Child and Family Agency
615. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality given the repeated failures within TUSLA highlighted in the media and raised in the Dáil Éireann including cases where... - Disabilities Assessments
616. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children waiting for an assessment of need at the latest available point in 2024 and 2024, by county; the number of... - Disability Services
617. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of people waiting for CDNT services at the latest available point in 2025, in tabular form. [73663/25] - Disabilities Assessments
623. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children in County Waterford waiting for an assessment of need at the latest available point in 2025, and 2024; the... - Disability Services
624. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children waiting for Children’s Disability Network Team services in County Waterford, at the latest available... - Home Care Packages
626. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of people in County Waterford awaiting home support in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, including numbers approved but not... - Nursing Homes
627. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of applications from County Waterford awaiting decision or placement under the nursing homes support scheme in 2023, 2024... - Childcare Services
628. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for a county-by-county breakdown of vacant childcare places for those aged under one, under four, and school age care. [73841/25] - State Pensions
629. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the introduction of a State pension for foster carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [71886/25]
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