Maeve O'Connell

481. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the targeted incentives that will be employed to improve recruitment and retention for children’s disability network teams. [31669/25]

482. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to report on her Department’s progress on the development of targeted legislation to bring the AON in line with the UNCRPD. [31670/25]

483. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to report on her Department’s work on a Neuro-Rehabilitation Strategy for specialist community-based services. [31671/25]

484. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality on her Department’s work to increase the provision of respite services. [31672/25]

485. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to set out a timeline for the release of the working paper on respite services. [31673/25]

486. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to report on the progress of implementing the actions set out in the autism innovation strategy. [31674/25]

487. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to report the budget for her Department’s disability, governance and performance unit. [31675/25]

488. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of special emergency arrangements used by Tusla since 2020. [31676/25]

489. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on her Department’s work to address Tusla's difficulties in hiring sufficient staff for special care units. [31677/25]

490. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the external review of Tusla's special care will be released. [31678/25]

491. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to set out a timeline for the updating of the Childcare Act 1991. [31679/25]

492. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to report the number of facilities in Dublin that received Building Blocks capital funding. [31680/25]

493. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to report how funding from the Building Blocks capital scheme was allocated between the scheme’s four strands. [31681/25]

575. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated timeline for when his Department expects the shortlisted projects under Stage 2 of the technological sector student accommodation programme to commence. [31712/25]

576. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of ministerial management board meetings he has attended since his appointment. [31713/25]

577. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he has met with all of the aegis bodies under his Department since his appointment. [31714/25]

578. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he has met with representatives of all of Ireland’s higher education institutions since his appointment. [31715/25]

579. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if preparations are in place to run the rent-a-room campaign; and when he expects this campaign to begin. [31716/25]

580. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of phase 2 off-the-job training places available for craft apprentices; and if the number of places has increased or decreased over the past two years. [31717/25]

581. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of staff, and from which units, who make up the team from his Department that has been charged with the periodic critical review of SOLAS. [31718/25]

582. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to identify each of the ten steps as part of the National Apprenticeships Office’s ten-step process for the development of new apprenticeships. [31719/25]

583. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to report on the work of his Department to reform the structure of apprenticeships currently on offer. [31720/25]

584. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the stage of the ten-step process for the development of new apprenticeships is the new spatial planning apprenticeship (NFQ Level 8). [31721/25]

47. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Finance if his Department has analysed the need to increase the guide dog allowance to keep pace with cost-of-living increases; and when this allowance was last increased.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27781/25]

56. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Finance if his Department has considered amalgamating group C inheritance tax recipients into group B inheritance tax recipients. [27780/25]