651. Deputy Daniel Ennis asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of people working as childminders in Ireland at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51225/26]
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652. Deputy Daniel Ennis asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childminders who have registered with Tusla under the new regulations for childminders; the figure as a percentage of the number of childminders operating in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51226/26]
653. Deputy Daniel Ennis asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childminders who have completed a pre-registration course via their local childcare committees; the figure as a percentage of the number of childminders operating in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51227/26]
654. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to report on a case of a person (details supplied) who is unable to gain access to scheduled respite care; and the date by which they will be provided with scheduled respite care. [51228/26]
655. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost of increasing personal assistance hours by at least 270,000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51334/26]
656. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated full-year cost of increasing childcare subsidies to 100% of fees paid by parents availing of childcare subsidies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51335/26]
657. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated full-year cost of providing free school meals for all pre-school children in the ECCE scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51336/26]
658. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total annual cost of wages for childcare workers; the number of childcare workers that are in receipt of Government support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51337/26]
659. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children on waiting lists for public childcare places; the total cost of eliminating childcare waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51338/26]
660. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the ESF+ EIST funding scheme under the gender equality stream; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51432/26]
661. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if funding is available in her Department to fund the renovation of family resource centres, where a building has been identified to expand the service in a town (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51433/26]
662. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if funding is available in her Department to fund furniture, toys and outdoor equipment for early years services who have completed extensions to build capacity supporting them with high costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51434/26]
663. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the governance arrangements relating to the board of a childcare committee (details supplied). [51459/26]
664. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide the web link to her Department’s Q2 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in line with the FOI model publication scheme requirements; to confirm the date on which this report was published; and, if it has not yet been published, the planned publication date. [51557/26]
665. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the State-funded GLÓR Speech and Language Therapy Programme is intended to be available to all eligible children and adults with Down syndrome, regardless of membership of any organisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51575/26]
666. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if organisations delivering the State-funded GLÓR Speech and Language Therapy Programme are permitted under the funding agreement to restrict access to the service to paid-up members or members whose subscriptions are not in arrears; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51576/26]
667. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she is satisfied that children and adults with Down syndrome who are not members of any organisation have equitable access to the State-funded GLÓR Speech and Language Therapy Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51577/26]
668. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has reviewed the enduring power of attorney process to assess how user-friendly it is and identify opportunities for simplification; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51586/26]
669. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to examine the user experience of the enduring power of attorney application process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51589/26]
670. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention is drawn to the fact that the operation of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 is, in practice, creating significant barriers for adults with lifelong intellectual disabilities and their families in accessing basic services such as healthcare, dental treatment, and banking. [51592/26]
671. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she accepts that requiring formal decision-making representative orders in circumstances where capacity is clearly and permanently limited is placing an undue administrative and financial burden on ageing family carers, many of whom are already under severe financial pressure. [51593/26]
672. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the assessment that has been made of the impact of DMR application costs, legal complexity, and court-based processes for ordinary families seeking to continue long established caring arrangements for adult children with significant intellectual disabilities. [51594/26]
673. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she will consider urgent reform to introduce a streamlined, affordable, and proportionate decision making pathway for adults with lifelong and profound intellectual disabilities; and whether she will address the lack of provision for successor decision-makers in the current system. [51596/26]
674. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 704 of 30 June 2026, in which her Department confirmed that permanency planning data is recorded in individual care plans but is not collated or reported nationally by Tusla; the reason no national system exists to aggregate this data given its centrality to the welfare of children in care; whether t…
675. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 485 and 486 of 28 May 2026, if room closures, rather than the service overall closure has any impact on core funding payable; if in the case of a multi-room service where different rooms close at different times, almost on rotation, whether this breached core funding rules, given the service rema…