1645. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the longest period taken to complete a National Review Panel review during the years 2020 to 2026. [43230/26]
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1646. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether interim safeguarding recommendations are issued before completion of National Review Panel reviews where urgent risks are identified. [43231/26]
1647. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of National Review Panel reviews currently outstanding and awaiting completion. [43232/26]
1648. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average time between the death of a child and implementation of recommendations arising from a National Review Panel review. [43233/26]
1649. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any review has remained incomplete for more than five years. [43234/26]
1650. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has assessed the impact of review delays on child protection learning and service improvement. [43235/26]
1675. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any key performance indicators, governance metrics, audit measures or oversight arrangements are in place regarding the use of Emergency Care Orders under section 13 of the Child Care Act 1991; and if they will provide details of same. [43456/26]
1686. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the Department has considered establishing a formal national reporting framework with Tusla covering Emergency Care Order applications under sections 12 and 13 of the Child Care Act 1991, including the number of applications made, granted, refused, withdrawn, varied or discharged, together with complaints received, judicial crit…
1687. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any review, assessment, audit or governance examination has been undertaken by the Department regarding the adequacy of current oversight arrangements for Emergency Care Orders, having regard to the fact that the Department does not receive aggregate reporting on complaints, judicial criticism, overturned orders or adverse findi…
1688. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the CDNT workforce and vacancy reports received by the Department include information on vacancy duration, funded but unfilled posts, service-delivery risks, waiting-list impacts, delayed-intervention risks and regional staffing deficits; whether any national escalation thresholds, intervention triggers or risk-management arrang…
1689. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department receives any data, reports, performance indicators or management information relating to permanency planning for children in State care; the nature and frequency of such reporting; whether national or regional benchmarks, targets or expected timelines exist for permanency planning; and if she will make a statement…
1690. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently in State care who have been in care for less than one year, one to two years, two to five years and more than five years, broken down by care type where available; the number for whom a permanency outcome has not yet been achieved; whether the Department has assessed delays in permanency planning; and if…
1691. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the process by which recommendations arising from National Review Panel reviews into the deaths of children known to Tusla are monitored and implemented; whether a central register of recommendations and actions is maintained; whether compliance with recommendations is audited or reported to her Department; and if she will make a statem…
1692. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total expenditure incurred by Tusla on private residential childcare placements in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026; the expenditure attributable to each private provider in each year; the number of placements purchased from each provider in each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43658/26]
1693. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla has established targets, milestones, implementation plans or projected timelines to reduce its dependency on private residential childcare providers; the current and projected public residential placement capacity planned for each of the years 2026 to 2030; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43659/26]
1706. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the June 2026 Children’s Disability Network Team workforce review will publish, for each CDNT nationally, the approved WTE complement, filled posts, vacant posts, vacancy rate and agency staffing level. [43862/26]
1707. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any national workforce-risk threshold exists within disability services which triggers escalation or intervention when vacancy levels exceed a specified percentage; and if no such threshold exists, whether one will be developed. [43863/26]
1708. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any analysis has been undertaken since 2020 examining the relationship between Children’s Disability Network Team staffing vacancies and waiting times for assessment, therapeutic intervention or service delivery; and if so, if copies of such analyses will be published. [43864/26]
1718. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the re-referral metrics provided to Tusla’s Audit and Risk Committee and Board in each year from 2020 to 2025; whether those metrics include national and area-level re-referral rates, repeat re-referrals involving the same child, the average time between case closure and re-referral, and outcome measures arising from re-referrals; and i…
1719. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether risks relating to child protection re-referrals have appeared on Tusla’s National Corporate Risk Register or any successor corporate risk framework since 2020; and if so, the risk reference number, risk description, risk rating, period during which the risk remained active, and the mitigation measures identified. [44080/26]
1720. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of child protection referrals classified as re-referrals in each year from 2020 to 2025, nationally and by Tusla service area; the percentage of total referrals represented by re-referrals in each year; and whether Tusla has undertaken any analysis of the relationship between re-referrals and subsequent adverse child protecti…
1721. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently in State care for more than two years who have not achieved a permanency outcome, broken down by age, care arrangement, and Tusla area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44085/26]
1722. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla reports to their Department on delays in permanency planning for children in care; if so, the information reported and the frequency of such reporting; and if not, the reason no such reporting arrangement exists. [44086/26]
1723. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average length of time between a child entering State care and a permanency decision being reached in each of the past five years; and if they will provide the figures in tabular form. [44088/26]
1724. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has undertaken a review, audit, analysis or assessment since 2020 of delays in permanency planning for children in State care; and if so, if she will provide details of the findings and recommendations. [44089/26]