2427. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to recent data from the national federation of voluntary service providers showing that 1,500 people with intellectual disabilities are living with family carers aged 70 or older; if she will outline her Department’s plans to respond to this crisis in care and housing; and if she will make a statement …
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2428. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will confirm whether the Government remains fully committed to meeting the residential and respite funding needs identified in the disability capacity review to 2032; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42673/25]
2429. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on the finding of the disability capacity review to 2032 that approximately 90 new residential places are required annually to meet demographic needs in the disability sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42674/25]
2430. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of new residential disability places that have been created since the publication of the disability capacity review to 2032, in tabular form by year;; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42675/25]
2431. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of times the Cabinet Committee on Children, Education and Disability has met since the formation of the current Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42676/25]
2432. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality in view of the recent announcement by a service provider (details supplied) if she is willing to release emergency funding to address the crisis now facing hundreds of aging parents who care for their adult children with an intellectual disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42677/25]
2433. Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding whether kinship carers with a formal agreement have the same rights as foster carers. [42773/25]
2434. Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she plans to give kinship carers without a formal agreement, the same rights as foster carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42774/25]
2435. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE play therapist posts that were filled at east Clare Children's disability network team in the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [42797/25]
2436. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE psychologist posts that were filled at west Clare Children's disability network team in the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [42798/25]
2437. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE clinical nurse specialist in intellectual disabilities posts that were filled within CHO3 children's disability network teams in the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [42799/25]
2438. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to consider introducing a cap or ban on administrative fees charged by crèches for placing children on waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42812/25]
2439. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps being taken to regulate non-refundable administrative fees in the early childhood education sector; whether any guidelines or oversight mechanisms are in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42813/25]
2440. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she has conducted any impact assessment on how unregulated crèche administration fees affect low-income families access to childcare services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42814/25]
2441. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to consider mandating transparency in how administrative fees are used by childcare providers; whether such fees should be refundable or deductible from future childcare costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42815/25]
2442. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to introduce the €200 a month cap for childcare fees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42816/25]
2443. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if future decision support services will accept paper submissions to register an enduring power of attorney for elderly or vulnerable people; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42893/25]
2444. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the Autism Assessments and Interventions Pathway Protocol Project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42919/25]
2445. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will outline her plans to introduce a tiered approach to assessment for individuals with autism spectrum disorder; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42920/25]
2446. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children on CDNT waiting lists in Kerry, broken down by team and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42923/25]
2447. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of vacancies that exist in CDNTs in County Kerry, by CDNT region, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42925/25]
2448. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the capital allocations that have been granted to her Department as part of the National Development Plan; whether any allocations have been made to developing publicly owned childcare facilities, if so the amount and the timeframe. [42966/25]
2449. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the urgent actions her Department will take to address the backlog of over 14,000 overdue assessments of need for children requiring disability services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43045/25]
2450. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the funding provided in each of the previous five years to CDNT 1, 2 3, 7, and 8 in CHO7, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43087/25]
2451. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality given the Government’s commitment to expanding affordable and accessible early education and school age childcare, if she will outline the role her Department is playing in coordinating with the National Development Plan to ensure the delivery of public childcare facilities as part of strategic housing developments on publicly own…