1554. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 996 of 17 February 2026, the date a child (details supplied) can start speech and language therapy, SLT, as the previous reply in relation to this child did not give any date for SLT to commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19534/26]
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1555. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding the implementation of the personalised budgets model for disabled people; to provide a timeline for the publication of the review of the personalised budgets pilot programme which was expected in 2025; her plans for expansion of the model arising from that review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. […
1584. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the cost of residential disability services provided by for-profit companies for each of the years 2021 to 2025; and for a breakdown of costs for child and adult services separately, in tabular form. [19823/26]
98. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she plans to phase out her Department's current and increasing reliance on private for-profit companies for the provision of disability services; if she will commit to multi-annual funding of State, not-for-profit providers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12931/26]
119. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current number of adults with an intellectual disability awaiting residential placement, per health region, and for a categorisation of wait times in years and months. [12930/26]
996. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reasons a child (details supplied) has not had any speech and language therapy for several years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12867/26]
1042. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current number of disability service providers operating in the State, broken down as follows: Section 38, Section 39, private for-profit companies; and for a further breakdown of annual funding allocated to each provider, and the funding allocated to HSE disability services. [12922/26]
825. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether dietetic services were considered in the original PDS governance and risk planning documents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6294/26]
882. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she plans to provide additional funding to Section 39 agencies for the additional costs incurred from the new pension auto-enrolment scheme; if she will provide additional funding in a time sensitive manner given that Section 39 agencies are already incurring these additional costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [617…
889. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE dietitians currently employed across all CDNTs; and the number of dietitian posts in CDNTs that are vacant. [6290/26]
890. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of CDNTs that have at least one WTE dietitian allocated; and the number of CDNTs that currently have no dietetic provision at all. [6291/26]
891. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average caseload per WTE dietitian in CDNTs. [6292/26]
892. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the funding allocated to recruit dietitians for CDNTs; the workforce planning that has been conducted to determine the required number of dietitians for CDNTs nationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6293/26]
893. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the budget allocation for dietetic services in paediatric disability for the next three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6295/26]
894. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current HSE risk score for dietetics in each of the 91 CDNTs; the steps that the HSE are taking to mitigate this risk; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6296/26]
895. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the clinical risk assessments that have been completed regarding the absence of dietetic services in CDNTs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6297/26]
896. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of adverse events or clinical incidents related to nutrition that have been reported in CDNTs in the past 24-months; the escalation pathways that exist for dietetic-related risks identified in CDNTs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6298/26]
897. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average waiting time for a child to access dietetic services through CDNTs. [6300/26]
898. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children with PEG feeding that are currently without dietetic support in CDNTs/being held in acute services waiting lists due to lack of service in the CDNTs. [6301/26]
233. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current number of people aged 65 years or younger residing in nursing-homes. [4544/26]
1962. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total spend by her Department on private for-profit companies for each of the years 2021 to 2025 ; and the breakdown of this spend on the different types of services being contracted. [75178/25]
1963. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of residential placements being provided by for-profit companies for young people aged under 18, for each of the years 2021 to 2025; and the breakdown of the costs for each year (details supplied), in tabular form. [75179/25]
1964. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the projected percentage of her Department's €3.8 billion investment in disability for 2026 that will be spent on services provided by private-for-profit companies; the breakdown of what this will equate to in respect of placements, assessments of needs and the other categories of service that this figure encompasses. [75180/25]
1970. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated number of people aged under 65 who entered nursing home care for each of the years 2021 to 2025, respectively; and for the estimated number of people in the same age group who transitioned out of nursing home care in each of those years, in tabular form. [75280/25]
4. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she has completed an equality and human rights impact assessment of her Department's practice of locating people with intellectual and other disabilities in excess of 100 km from home in residential services for prolonged periods of time, and of her Department's failure to maintain statistics on these distances given their clear breach …