Ken O'Flynn

651. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the information, training or orientation programmes provided to applicants for international protection and other new arrivals regarding Irish laws on equality, discrimination, same-sex relationships, marriage equality and LGBT rights; and if he will provide details of the content, delivery mechanisms and annual expenditure associated with such programmes. [45091/26]

652. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department maintains, collects or reviews data on incidents involving anti-LGBT harassment, threats or violence in international protection accommodation centres or State-contracted accommodation facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45092/26]

756. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a specific assessment, review, risk analysis or research has been undertaken since 2020 regarding the economic, biodiversity, climate resilience, storm resilience or forest health risks associated with the concentration of Sitka spruce within the State forestry estate; and if he will provide the title, date and author of each such assessment. [45879/26]

757. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proportion of the State forestry estate comprised of Sitka spruce in each of the years from 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; the projected proportion in 2030, 2040 and 2050 under current forestry plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45880/26]

758. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether any scenario modelling, stress testing or contingency planning has been undertaken regarding the potential impact of a major pest outbreak, disease event, storm event or climate-related disruption affecting Sitka spruce within the State forestry estate; whether the economic, timber supply, biodiversity and carbon sequestration implications of such scenarios have been assessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45881/26]

759. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of hectares within the State forestry estate comprised of mixed-species forestry stands, by species composition bands of less than 25%, 25% to 50%, 50% to 75%, and greater than 75% dominance by a single species; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45882/26]

760. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether an assessment has been undertaken of the storm, pest, disease or climate resilience risks associated with the 141,000 hectares of the State forestry estate in which Sitka spruce represents greater than 95% of total tree composition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45883/26]

761. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether Coillte has established a target, objective or projected timeline for reducing the area of the State forestry estate in which a single species represents more than 90% of total tree composition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45884/26]

774. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has undertaken any review of the eligibility age criteria for the early childhood care and education scheme since 2020; the number of children who have missed eligibility for an ECCE programme year by less than seven days, 14 days and 30 days respectively, in each year since 2020; whether consideration has been given to introducing a flexibility, appeals or exceptional-circumstances mechanism for children who narrowly miss the qualifying age threshold; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45085/26]

776. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is satisfied that no national review of permanency planning outcomes for children in care has been undertaken since 2020; if she will commission such a review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45093/26]

777. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla intends to establish a national reporting framework identifying the principal causes of delays in permanency planning for children in care, including court delays, placement shortages, staffing vacancies, assessment backlogs and lack of therapeutic services; the timeline for implementation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45096/26]

784. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department will establish a national reporting framework for permanency outcomes for children in State care, including reunification, adoption, guardianship and long-term foster care outcomes; whether annual national reporting will be introduced on these outcomes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45322/26]

785. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla maintains a national record of the permanency objective assigned to each child in care; if not, whether she will direct Tusla to develop such a dataset; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45323/26]

786. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the Tusla Board and its Audit and Risk Committee will be required to receive regular reports on care drift, placement instability, permanency outcomes and the number of children remaining in care for more than two, five and ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45324/26]

807. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she is satisfied that Tusla’s National Corporate Risk Register does not contain an explicit strategic risk relating to the agency’s reliance on privately provided residential care placements; whether consideration has been given since 2020 to including such a risk on the register; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45835/26]

808. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any regional, area, operational, service-level or directorate risk register maintained by Tusla currently contains a risk relating to the financial, procurement, governance, safeguarding, capacity or market-dependency implications of privately provided residential care placements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45836/26]

809. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the expenditure incurred by Tusla on privately provided residential care placements in each year from 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026; the proportion of all residential care expenditure represented by such placements in each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45837/26]

810. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla has established a quantified target to reduce the proportion of children in State-funded care placed with private residential childcare providers; the baseline percentage against which progress is being measured; the target percentage to be achieved; the target year for achievement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45838/26]

811. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla has produced a business case, implementation plan, capacity model, workforce plan or other strategic document setting out how dependency on private residential childcare placements will be reduced; whether such documents contain annual milestones for the period 2026 to 2030; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45839/26]

812. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether reliance on private residential childcare placements has been assessed as a strategic, financial, operational or governance risk by Tusla since 2020; whether this issue has been considered for inclusion on Tusla’s National Corporate Risk Register; whether any formal risk assessment has been completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45840/26]

869. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of claims rejected by the PCRS for respiratory medications, including salbutamol, ipratropium, steroid inhalers and nebuliser products, in each year from 2020 to date; the financial value associated with those rejected claims; the number subsequently resubmitted and paid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45089/26]

870. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department, or the HSE, intends to develop a comparative performance framework or dashboard to monitor differences between the six health regions in respect of expenditure, workforce allocation, waiting times, service delivery outcomes and operational decision-making; and if not, how she is assured that significant regional variation is being identified and addressed. [45094/26]

871. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether private home support providers operating under the home support authorisation scheme are subject to announced or unannounced compliance inspections; the number of compliance inspections, audits, reviews or investigations conducted in each year since the scheme commenced; the number of providers found to be non-compliant; the sanctions available to the HSE in cases of non-compliance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45095/26]

1005. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any national register, exclusion list, restriction mechanism or equivalent system exists to prevent agency or locum healthcare workers who have been removed from an HSE-funded site due to performance, conduct, safeguarding or patient safety concerns from being placed at another HSE-funded site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45832/26]

1006. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of agency or locum healthcare workers who were removed from assignments within HSE-funded services due to performance, conduct, safeguarding or patient safety concerns in each of the years from 2020 to 2025; the number that were subsequently permitted to undertake assignments elsewhere within HSE-funded services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45833/26]