Questions

2004. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the status of the applications by thalidomide sufferers to a foundation (details supplied); and when it expects that these applications will be processed and payments made. [46923/25]

720. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the breakdown of funding to local authorities under the play and recreation capital funding scheme in the years 2020 to 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33991/25]

131. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when her Department will introduce and fund a community neurorehabilitation team for Dublin Central and Dublin North City and East; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24018/25]

523. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the location of each of the CDNTs that are not in the catchment area of a special school. [28781/25]

561. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there is any differential made in the HIQA standards for the care of persons under 65 and the care for persons over 65, or any other age, in nursing homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27687/25]

751. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there are HIQA standards applying to the care of under 65’s in long-term residential care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25278/25]

752. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of ELC/SAC services that were found to be non-compliant in relation to staffing ratios, staff qualifications, Garda vetting, and basic needs, broken down by private or community and private service, service size, full day care, part-time, sessional, school age child-care and county, in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [25279…

759. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she has any intention of taking up the issues arising from the Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021, which would give workplace leave in the event of miscarriage or fertility treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25472/25]

301. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of applications under the building blocks scheme that were received; the number processed by the OPW; the number of projects that have received approval in order for them to go to the e-tender stage, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25034/25]

302. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason for the delays in making approvals in the building blocks scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25035/25]

303. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider extending the end of December deadline for full use of the building blocks funding, in light of the delays to approving the applications submitted in January 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25036/25]

979. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if all families deemed to have been over-charged by a facility (detailed supplied) in respect of their participation in national childcare scheme were repaid; if the payment was made in full; when that payment took place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23972/25]

980. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if all families deemed to have been over-charged by early years services in respect of their participation in national childcare scheme were repaid in full; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23973/25]

981. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures her Department has taken to ensure no family is being currently overcharged as per the fee structure agreed under the National Childcare scheme. [23974/25]

982. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the penalties or other actions that have been taken against a facility (details supplied) in respect of its breach of the national childcare scheme and over-charging of parents in contravention of the fee freeze. [23975/25]

239. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 (ISL) within her Department and its associated public bodies, including details of any ISL strategies that have been developed; and if no ISL strategy has been developed to date, the details of plans her Department has to address this ga…

801. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she intends on introducing surrogacy leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16652/25]

632. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of health and social care professional positions approved, and the number of social care professional positions filled, in each Cork city CDNT, from 2023 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15074/25]

633. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current wait times for a child to receive an initial assessment for autism in the Cork city HSE area. [15075/25]

637. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for the number of children aged zero to 18 in each of the integrated healthcare areas (IHA) by individual area, awaiting first-time intervention in all areas of early intervention; the number on the public list; the number on the children's disability network team list in each IHA; and the length of time awaiting i…

1338. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans regarding the Programme for Government commitment that international protection applicants would be provided with accommodation with restrictions on their movement, specifically this new type of accommodation which would restrict applicants' movements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [111…

1409. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to list the organisations funded by the HSE and her Department that work with sufferers of acquired brain injury; the supports available to them for each year from 2019 to 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12000/25]

1410. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions her Department has taken to act on the “Wasted Lives” report and to end the practice of people under 65 years living inappropriately in nursing homes designed for care of older people; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12002/25]

1418. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE health and social care professionals working in the children's disability network teams in CHO9 in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12144/25]

597. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the early years inspectorate has issued a direction to end, with immediate effect, access by school aged children to school aged care but are not yet enrolled in primary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9044/25]