808. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of contracts a company (details supplied) has had with her Department in 2024, 2025 and to-date in 2026; and the nature of services this company provided to her Department in each of the years in question, in tabular form. [73531/26]
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505. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the staff vacancy rate for children’s disability network teams in CHO7 as of 31 August 2026, in tabular form. [67082/26]
427. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the funding allocated to CDNTs in CHO9 in 2025 and 2026; and the estimated funding required to eliminate current waiting lists within this CDNT. [31796/26]
428. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE social workers, by grade posts, filled at Hartstown CDNT as of 23 April 2026, in tabular form. [31797/26]
2408. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the recently revised assessment of need framework limits or reduces access to cognitive assessment for children, including in cases where intellectual disability is not suspected. [24390/26]
2409. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the way in which the revised framework ensures that children with uneven developmental profiles, including those who may be gifted or twice-exceptional that is, children with both high ability and additional needs such as autism, ADHD, or dyslexia, will be appropriately identified within the system [24391/26]
2410. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality : whether her Department has conducted any impact assessment on how the revised model may affect the identification of children whose needs are masked by high cognitive ability or compensatory functioning. [24392/26]
2411. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the safeguards in place to prevent under-identification of such children, particularly in light of evidence that twice-exceptional children are already under-recognised within Irish education and disability services. [24393/26]
2412. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if access to cognitive or psychological assessment remains available where there is evidence of significant intra-individual discrepancy, asynchronous development, or unexplained underachievement. [24394/26]
2413. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the training or guidance is being provided to assessment officers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure that complex presentations, including masking and twice-exceptionality, are recognised under the revised model. [24395/26]
2414. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department intends to review the implementation of the revised assessment of need framework to ensure that no cohort of children is excluded from identification due to the streamlining of assessment processes. [24396/26]
2537. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there will be a review of the ECCE eligibility cut-off dates to eliminate the unfair disadvantage faced by children born in early January (details supplied). [26031/26]
1514. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE speech and language therapist posts, by grade, that were filled at Blanchardstown CDNT as of 3 March 2026; and the average waiting time for same. [18684/26]
163. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on the difficulty posed by auto enrolment for TUSLA-funded projects (details supplied). [12268/26]
1025. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on the difficulty posed by auto enrolment for TUSLA funded projects (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12278/26]
918. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to conduct a review of the ECCE eligibility cut-off dates, with a view to eliminating the unfair disadvantage faced by children born in early January. [8037/26]
919. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to consider a rolling or more flexible entry system of the ECCE scheme, rather than a rigid annual cut-off that fails to reflect children’s developmental needs and increase the enrolment windows into the scheme. [8038/26]
920. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to mediate interim measures to support families who are currently excluded by a matter of days for eligibility of ECCE including the option of early entry where appropriate. [8039/26]
870. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether, under the new State-led, not-for-profit childcare facilities plan, her Department would consider purchasing a childcare facility which is to be built shortly by a developer at Castlefield Hall, Dublin 15. [5940/26]
20. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if consideration has been given for capital funding for community based not-for-profit childcare facilities. [72882/25]
31. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason for the delay in a European disability card being available to Irish citizens. [72879/25]
599. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on the lack of access to children for therapeutic interventions in Blakestown CDNT. [72878/25]
491. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE behavioural therapist posts that was filled at Blakestown children's disability network team in the years of 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [67633/25]
144. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on the lack of funding for Blanchardstown Centre for Independent Living, including the provision of funding for fuel costs for their accessibility vehicles. [58316/25]
315. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the nature of refurbishment works that were carried out at Oberstown detention campus in 2024 and to date in 2025; and if each capital works project have been completed, in tabular form. [56070/25]