1226. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the age eligibility for children starting the ECCE scheme can be reviewed to prevent some families from being at a disadvantage where their child falls just short of being two years and eight months by 1 September; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1268/25]
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1227. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the mother and baby institutions payment scheme, taking into account the urgent medical need of the applicant for their enhanced medical card as a matter of priority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1273/25]
1228. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to give attention to a serious issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1274/25]
1229. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports available to individuals in receipt of an invalidity pension who require wheelchair-modified vehicles for personal use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1289/25]
1230. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if urgent action will be taken to ensure that a family (details supplied) is moved to appropriate accommodation. [1291/25]
1231. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans being made to ensure that people, including asylum seekers, are not forced out of temporary accommodation once periods of cold weather end; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1293/25]
1232. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures that are being put in place to end the situation in which asylum seekers must be rough sleeping in order to avail of or re-enter emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1295/25]
1233. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update and timeline on the progress being made for the provision of a system of permanent accommodation being provided for all asylum seekers while their asylum applications are being processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1297/25]
1234. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures that have been put in place to source alternative accommodation options and stop the housing of asylum seekers in tented accommodation without adequate heating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1299/25]
1235. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will provide IPAS accommodation to a person (details supplied). [1311/25]
1236. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to correspondence received by a childcare service in Dublin 11 regarding damage to its premises (details supplied), the immediate supports that will be offered to the service to ensure as little disruption to staff and families as possible; if his Department will liaise with the relevant officials, including …
1237. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an appointment for a child (details supplied). [1330/25]
1238. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for clarification regarding information provided verbally to some families of day service users of an organisation at a location (details supplied) that these services will be ceasing; if this is the case, the reason this decision has been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1346/25]
1239. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the number of hours allocated to the care of a person (details supplied) will be increased from thirteen and a half hours to thirty hours, which is what was originally agreed as being the optimum number of hours required by them; and if he will expedite a positive response. [1375/25]
1240. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he is taking to urgently tackle the childcare crisis, particularly the shortage of places available for children under the age of one in the Dublin Southwest area; and his views on the barriers this creates for women returning to work. [1382/25]
1241. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people awaiting a fist appointment in the CDNTs across County Galway; the number who have been waiting less than 3, 3-6, 6-12 and more than 12 months, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1401/25]
1242. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the locations of each assistive technology and specialised seating department within the State; if they are directly run by the HSE or are run on behalf of the HSE by another organisation; and the number and role of staff employed in each of these services. [1416/25]
1243. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 40% of survivors have been excluded from full mother and baby institutional redress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1423/25]
1244. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will amend the eligibility criteria for the mother and baby homes redress scheme. [1424/25]
1245. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department retains the number of former Magdalen laundry residents who are still resident in convents in Ireland; and, if so, the number of former Magdalen laundry residents who are still resident in convents here. [1441/25]
1246. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of people currently waiting for speech and language therapy in Mayo; the number of whom have been waiting 3, 6 months, 1 year and 2 years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1444/25]
1247. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of vacancies in the speech and language therapy in Mayo; and the steps his Department is taking to recruit more SLT professionals in the Mayo region. [1445/25]
1248. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of speech and language therapy professionals who have been recruited in Mayo in each of the past five years.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1446/25]
1249. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of speech and language therapist professional who have left their jobs in Mayo in each of the past five years. [1447/25]
1250. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether a full assessment of needs for a child (details supplied) will be scheduled. [1456/25]