76. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of creche groups that have withdrawn or pulled out of CORE funding in Cork in 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50182/25]
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77. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there are any funding schemes in her Department to support organisations in developing changing places toilet facilities. [50028/25]
78. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the engagement she has undertaken with disability advocacy groups in terms of ensuring disabled access to public realm and shared public spaces. [50225/25]
79. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children on the waiting list for an assessment of need; the number of those waiting over one year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49906/25]
80. Deputy Keira Keogh asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware of policies within CDNTs where they recommend a 'wait and see' approach for children presenting with developmental concerns or additional needs; the measures being taken by her Department to ensure children and their families are not left without prompt intervention at key developmental stages; and if she will make a state…
81. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she intends to increase the core funding for family resource centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50209/25]
82. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to report on her Department’s work regarding the development of State-led childcare facilities. [49997/25]
83. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress to date in recruiting additional therapists for disability services for Cavan and Monaghan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50220/25]
84. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her Department’s plans to increase funding to the Ombudsman for Children, following reports (details supplied) that a lack of adequate resourcing is impacting on the Ombudsman’s ability to carry out their responsibilities; the details of her Department’s engagement with the Office of the Ombudsman for Children on this matter; and i…
85. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider the construction or acquisition of State-owned childcare facilities in Dublin mid-west, given the high demand for places locally, and in the context of Programme for Government commitments on the delivery of public childcare infrastructure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49905/25]
86. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of family resource centres that applied to come in under the national forum that were not successful; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49909/25]
87. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the waiting lists for assessments of needs in CDNTs in County Meath; the way in which the waiting lists in 2025 compares to 2023 and 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49707/25]
88. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will give a commitment to not removing the six-month statutory deadline for delivering assessments of needs; the current average waiting time for an assessment of needs to be delivered; the efforts being made to reduce waiting times for delivering assessments of needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50248/25]
89. Deputy William Aird asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide funding for a community neurorehabilitation team for the midlands in Budget 2026, in line with the commitment of the Programme for Government to complete the national rollout of community neurorehabilitation teams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34830/25]
90. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to facilitate the opening of a service (details supplied) on a full-time basis, seven days and nights per week; her views on whether one night of respite care in a five-year period is acceptable; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50174/25]
91. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Taoiseach the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by his Department in the past two years, by description and amount paid [49616/25]
92. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Taoiseach the position regarding any product or service that has been acquired by his Department from an Occupied Palestinian Territory. [49634/25]
93. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Taoiseach if he will publish an up-to-date audit of the number and proportion of people with disabilities who are in employment, broken down by sector and region, to allow measurement of progress on closing the disability employment gap, and to provide comparable data to that published in Northern Ireland through NISRA. [49701/25]
94. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Taoiseach the amount of expenditure on off-site storage solutions for the past five years to date; if he will provide a breakdown of items (details supplied) not stored in his Department on annual basis. [50501/25]
95. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the stage the Mercosur talks have now reached; the safeguards that will be put in place to protect the livelihoods of Irish farmers in the event of an agreement being agreed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49832/25]
96. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason the passport office will not accept apostrophes as part of legal names e.g. O’Connor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50232/25]
97. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by his Department in the past two years, by description and amount paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49608/25]
98. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding any product or service that has been acquired by his Department from an Occupied Palestinian Territory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49626/25]
99. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the recent activities of the Irish Consulate in Mumbai including staffing number [49808/25]
100. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline Ireland’s strategic response to Russia’s incursion into Polish airspace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49021/25]