Written answers

Thursday, 19 February 2026

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

 
  • Disabilities Assessments
    512. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children in County Kerry waiting for an assessment of need at the latest available point in 2024 and 2025; the number...
  • Disability Services
    513. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children waiting for children’s disability network team services in County Kerry, at the latest available point...
  • Legislative Reviews
    515. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update in the changes being made to the Wards of Court and the Assisted Decision-Making Capacity Act in the case of a person...
  • Legislative Process
    516. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will outline each section of enacted legislation, where the responsibility lies in the Minister to commence that section,...
  • Child Protection
    517. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department receives, on an annual or periodic basis, aggregated statistical reports from Tusla on the number of...
  • Child and Family Agency
    525. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the providers used for special emergency arrangements in 2025; the amount given to each; and the number of times each provider has...
  • Disability Services
    528. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of long-term residential places available, by county for disabled people. [13638/26]
  • Early Childhood Care and Education
    530. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the payment of a building blocks improvement scheme 2023 grant for a creche (details supplied); and if she...
  • Disabilities Assessments
    531. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide the latest figures for the number of children currently awaiting an assessment of need, per RHA, in tabular form, at the...
  • Child and Family Agency
    532. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the figure of four governance or safeguarding concerns received since 2020, as referenced in correspondence to the Deputy,...
  • Children First Guidelines
    536. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently in State care who have been in care for more than two years, more than five years, and more than...
  • Children in Care
    537. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has issued any written guidance, circulars, or policy directions to Tusla concerning the maximum duration a...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education
    541. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department accepts that the Children First Act 2015 and Children First National Guidance do not provide an express...
  • Children in Care
    546. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount of money being spent by Tusla each year on special emergency arrangements between 2023 to 2025; the total number of...
  • Childcare Services
    547. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department plans to deliver a State-run childcare facility in the Tulla-Kilkishen area of County Clare, given it has a...
  • Disability Diagnoses
    548. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of adults in County Wexford with an intellectual disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13964/26]
  • Disabilities Assessments
    549. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the initiatives and legislative change under way to deal with the backlog in the assessment of needs (AON)...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education
    550. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she is formally notified, either directly or through structured reporting arrangements, of substantiated governance or...

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