Questions

1360. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will amend the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023, to allow all applicants to request a review of their notice of determination and to appeal the decision of that review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11264/25]

1361. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if, in light of the fact that section 19(1) of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023 states that ‘a person who considers that he or she is a relevant person may make an application…to the Chief Deciding Officer’, she will instruct the office of the chief deciding officer to amend the mother and ba…

1362. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans in place to stop the significant number of withdrawals from the core funding scheme, including several in Dublin Mid-West, which is adding unaffordable cost increases to parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11285/25]

1363. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the core funding scheme is being reviewed in light of the significant number of operators withdrawing due to inability to operate solvently, which is adding additional costs to parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11286/25]

1364. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount in youth funding for County Offaly in each of the years from 2020 to 2025, in tabular form. [11296/25]

1365. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total youth services grant allocation to each ETB in each of the years from 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; if she will immediately seek an increase grant allocation for the Laois Offaly Education and Training Board to enable an increase in service provision capacity; and if she will make a statement on the mat…

1366. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 795 of 25 February 2025, wherein you stated that a total of €949,718.86 had been spent to end of 2024 on the administrative and staffing costs associated with the running of the Personalised Budget Demonstrator Pilot, considering that €3.5 million was made available to meet th…

1367. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the reopening of Before 5. [11393/25]

1368. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on the waiting list for occupational therapy services in Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11394/25]

1369. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people on a public waiting list to see an occupational therapist; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11395/25]

1370. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the fact that an IPAS in Newbridge was closed with only 24 hours’ notice to residents; the reason this was done; if the building will be repurposed or continue to function as an IPAS centre in future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11454/25]

1371. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a decision has been made to further extend the accommodation recognition payment (ARP) for Ukrainian refugees; if not, what will happen to those that are currently in accommodation under the ARP scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11466/25]

1372. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her attention has been drawn to issues with a Tusla file (details supplied). [11470/25]

1373. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a list of all contracts that a company (details supplied) has with her Department. [11513/25]

1374. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress to date in advancing a proposal to provide a standalone respite centre for adults with intellectual disability in County Cavan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11531/25]

1375. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of respite services in Cavan and Monaghan for children and adults; the further proposals to extend the range of such services in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11532/25]

1376. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is her Department's intention to use Thornton Hall as a site for IPAS accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11533/25]

1377. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of expressions of interest received by her Department for the acquisition or lease of sites for international protection accommodation; when her Department expects to have assessed these submissions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11535/25]

1378. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans in place in her Department to deal with IPAS accommodation now that the total numbers in IPAS have surpassed 33,000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11536/25]

1379. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of respite beds available for people with a disability in CHO4 in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11538/25]

1380. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacant posts, under active recruitment, broken down across disciplines, including, but not restricted to, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, psychology, radiation therapy and social work, across units in CHO4, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1…

1381. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide funding for community neurorehabilitation teams in CHO4, in line with the 2019 Neurorehabilitation Strategy Implementation Framework which committed to a team in each CHO; the steps he is taking to address the staff shortages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11540/25]

1382. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the intended withdrawal of a childcare facility from the core funding agreement (details supplied); the actions being taken by the Department to ensure this can be avoided given the number of children and families relying on the service and given the commitments to lessen the finan…

1383. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when funding will be made available to turn a facility (details supplied) into a residential service in order to care for a person who has complex medical needs on a full-time capacity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11558/25]

1384. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures her Department has considered to expand childcare places in response to concerns in relation to accessibility; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11593/25]