894. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps she will take to ensure that children awaiting disability services are not forced into private assessments due to failures in the public system (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37126/26]
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895. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if emergency intervention will be provided in the case of a child currently at risk of school expulsion while awaiting appropriate behavioural and psychological supports (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37127/26]
896. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current average waiting time in the Dublin North region CH09 for psychological assessments through CDNT services; the number of children waiting longer than five years for assessment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37128/26]
897. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if additional resources will be allocated to CDNT services in Balbriggan and North Dublin CH09 to address severe delays in speech and language therapy, psychology, and behavioural supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37129/26]
898. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the ministerial counterparts with whom she has discussed the proposed European Union Equal Treatment Directive in bilateral engagements; the dates on which those discussions took place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37169/26]
899. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if Ireland intends to allocate dedicated time during EPSCO Council meetings or relevant EU Working Parties to the consideration of the proposed European Union Equal Treatment Directive during Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37170/26]
900. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the Government considers political agreement on the proposed European Union Equal Treatment Directive achievable during Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37171/26]
901. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality regarding special arrangements under the national childcare scheme for vulnerable children, facilities in the Dublin mid-west constituency that currently have placement availability remaining under this scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37176/26]
902. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality regarding special arrangements under the national childcare scheme for vulnerable children, if she is aware that some service providers refuse the enrolment of vulnerable children due to funding shortfalls; if she intends to address this to ensure increased places are available to vulnerable children; and if she will make a statement on…
903. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department has any usage policy on or if it sanctions for official purposes the use of messaging apps (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37195/26]
904. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she plans to deliver specialist community-based neurorehabilitation teams for paediatric neurological services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37250/26]
905. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a breakdown of the funding allocated to disability in 2026 with the subcategory allocated to respite, home support, P.A. hours and so on, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37251/26]
906. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will clarify whether it is the policy of the HSE to require a person with a physical disability, who is in receipt of personal assistant hours for essential daily living tasks, to 'bank' or reduce their existing daily allocated P.A. hours in order to attend medical or other vital appointments which require assistance; and if s…
907. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she acknowledges that such a practice may leave a person with a disability without the necessary supports to carry out essential daily activities within their home and community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37253/26]
908. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the pathway that exists for a person with a disability to secure additional assistance or support from the HSE to attend vital appointments where attendance is not possible without support from a personal assistant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37254/26]
909. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if any national policy or guidance has been issued to disability services regarding supports for attendance at medical, therapeutic, hospital, social care, or other essential appointments. [37255/26]
910. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide details of any review being undertaken into the adequacy of personal assistance hour allocations for people with complex physical disabilities who require support beyond basic daily living tasks, including attendance at appointments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37256/26]
911. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reasons the HSE only allows clients in receipt of personal assistant support hours to bank unused hours for use within the same week only, even in circumstances where the service provider may be in a position to facilitate those hours at a later date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37258/26]
912. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if consideration will be given to introducing greater flexibility in the use of banked personal assistance hours for people with disabilities who may require support for vital medical appointments, social participation, education or other essential activities outside of the same weekly period; and if she will make a statement on the …
913. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will clarify whether a client whose care package is temporarily paused or underutilised can later access unused funding from their allocated yearly HSE budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37260/26]
914. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding unused funding remaining within an individual's allocated yearly budget; whether those funds are returned to central HSE budgets, reallocated elsewhere, or carried forward in any capacity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37261/26]
915. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to representations received from a constituent, the rationale behind parent's leave being allocated on a per pregnancy basis rather than per child; her views that this results in parents of twins or other multiple births receiving the same statutory parent's leave entitlement as parents of a single child; her views that this …
916. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide additional funding for Family Resource Centres (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37299/26]
917. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of play therapists currently employed by TUSLA; the number that are qualified to work with complex trauma; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37368/26]
918. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the location of each play therapist currently employed by TUSLA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37369/26]