1. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the progress of the establishment of the new autism assessment service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47690/26]
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2. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to publish a detailed timeframe, including milestones and key performance indicators, for the provision of €200-per-month childcare, as set out in the commitments in the programme for Government. [47642/26]
3. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the roll-out of State-led childcare facilities; when the eight locations for this year will be chosen; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47735/26]
4. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that no childcare facility has been built within the new national children’s hospital, and if she has raised this with the Minister for Health. [47221/26]
5. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will ensure increased investment in voluntary residential care services for children in the care of the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47736/26]
6. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if staffing levels for speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and psychologists in the children’s disability network teams, CDNTs, in Balbriggan and Swords have increased in the past two years; the current number of vacancies; the additional posts or resources being allocated in response to population growth and rising de…
7. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps she intends to take to implement the Programme for Government commitment to extend the national childcare scheme to childminders working in the family home with sensible regulations that fit home-based care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47285/26]
8. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she has considered a model of childcare based on direct public provision to ensure access, affordability for families and quality pay and conditions for staff in the sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47544/26]
9. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the action being taken to reduce the cost of childcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47437/26]
10. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the actions being taken by her Department to support ECCE-only services that are receiving commercial rates bills; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47448/26]
11. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the extent of engagement her Department has had with the autism community, including autistic individuals, advocacy organisations and representative groups, in the development of the recently announced new autism assessment and intervention pathway protocol; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43029/26]
12. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the extent to which respite care capacity for families of children with disabilities has increased over the past 12-months; whether current provision is meeting demand; her plans to expand residential and community-based respite services in areas where significant service gaps continue to exist; and if she will make a statement on th…
13. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of early learning and school-age childcare facilities that have been found to be non-complainant on staffing ratios, staffing qualifications, Garda vetting, and basic needs, broken down by private or community service, service size, full day care, part-time, sessional, school-age childcare and county, in 2025 and 2026. [46906/26…
14. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the review of the childminding regulations will take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47407/26]
15. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of practising guardians ad litem that will be part of the new national service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47408/26]
16. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress being made to increase the number of newly qualified childcare professionals, in order to adequately staff childcare services throughout Carlow and Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47403/26]
17. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childminding services and individual childminders registered with Tusla and the number of childminders who have completed or are undertaking the pre-registration training up to the end of May 2026; if she is satisfied there will be no negative impact on the number of either on the provision of services in Clare post-2027; the…
18. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality of the providers who exited core funding in each of the years 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, the number that have since re-entered the programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46782/26]
19. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the expected timeline for the review of the Disability Act 2005; the next stages following the current public consultation process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47386/26]
20. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the plans in place for additional respite places in Kerry; if St. Mary of the Angels Campus in Beaufort, County Kerry will be considered as a location for a centre of excellence for respite in the county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47394/26]
21. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps she is taking to address the shortage of respite services in County Clare, including waiting lists for planned and emergency respite; her plans to expand respite capacity in the county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47275/26]
22. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of residential places provided at a location (details supplied) in each of the years 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47397/26]
23. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of respite hours provided to children and adults with disabilities and their families in Dublin during 2025 by CHO area; the projected level of respite capacity and hours expected to be available in 2026 and 2027; the additional investment being considered as part of Budget 2027 to expand respite services and reduce waiting …
24. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently waiting on assessment of needs over the statutory waiting time, in each RHA area, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47426/26]
25. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans for additional childcare places and staff in Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47438/26]