520. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a list of posts, in each CDNT in the State, which have been removed since September 2025 under the HSE pay and numbers strategy, in tabular form. [70217/26]
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522. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the posts that are vacant in each CDNT in the State, in tabular form, which of these posts will be removed by December 31 under the HSE Pay and Numbers Strategy, in tabular form. [70216/26]
523. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will address the ongoing exclusion of counties Sligo and Leitrim as the only remaining counties without an organisation's dedicated, locally-based MS community worker (details supplied); if she will provide the specific funding allocation to the organisation to establish this full-time post for the more than 300 peop…
686. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of case manager positions relative to acquired brain injury patients that are funded by the HSE; her plans to provide funding for the twenty case managers that are required nationally; her plans to deal with the waiting list for services for patients with acquired brain injury; if the funding for the organisation will be i…
427. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the share of expenditure spent on agency staff for every section 39 organisation. [68024/26]
1059. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE behavioural specialists posts filled at each CDNT within CHO8 as of 8 September 2026, in tabular form. [65216/26]
1060. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE family support workers posts filled at each CDNT within CHO8 as of 8 September 2026, in tabular form. [65215/26]
1089. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist with a special interest in learning disabilities posts filled within CHO3 disabilities services as of 7 September 2026; if she will provide the same figures as of 31 December 2023, in tabular form. [65781/26]
246. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE dietitians by grade posts filled at Ballymun Children's Disability Network Team, in tabular form. [48164/26]
247. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE social workers by grade posts filled at Finglas Children's Disability Network Team, in tabular form. [48165/26]
250. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of speech and language therapists that are currently in the CDNT; the number of those have been formally trained or certified in gestalt language processing; whether a GLP course is provided to parents to help them understand this very different way of processing language; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4835…
61. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to ensure that OT positions within the CDNT teams and primary care in Laois are filled and retained, to prevent turnover disruption to continuity of the care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47340/26]
68. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the current vacancy rate for paediatric OT services for children with special needs and for counties, Laois Offaly, Longford and Westmeath, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47339/26]
636. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of staff currently in place for each discipline and the corresponding positions vacant on each CDNT; the county it relates to, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47647/26]
638. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1770 of 9 June 2026, and in light of her statement in that reply that Tusla’s allocation framework is not yet implemented as there is no formal staff agreement, the legal basis for non-qualified Tusla staff being employed to undertake social work tasks, as outlined in HIQA's inspection of Child …
160. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current number of WTEs; and the current number of WTEs vacant in the CDNTs of CHO7, in tabular form. [46213/26]
788. Deputy George Lawlor asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE clinical psychologists posts filled within Wexford CDNT as of 8 June 2026; if she will provide the same figures as of 30 June 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45369/26]
1576. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the staffing vacancy rates across CDNTs serving counties Longford and Westmeath, broken down by occupational therapist, speech and language therapist, psychologist, and physiotherapist; and the measures being taken to address recruitment and retention challenges. [42241/26]
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]
183. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of currently vacant posts within Kildare CDNT; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40485/26]
986. Deputy Martin Daly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of vacancies across CDNTs nationally, broken down by discipline; the number of vacancies in CHO 2 / HSE West; and the immediate measures that are being taken to restore therapy services. [39487/26]
1056. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is currently no occupational therapist covering adult disability services in County Longford; the steps being taken to fill this position; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40159/26]
229. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide details on the number of senior health and social care professional whole-time equivalent posts allocated to deliver therapy services across special schools nationally; if she is aware that of the 136.3 senior HSCP whole-time equivalents allocated for onsite service provision across 82 special schools, only 88.…
233. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of social workers recruited by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, in each of the past five years; if she is aware that Tusla's own Chief Executive has stated that at least 500 new social workers need to be recruited annually to keep pace with demand, while only 143 were appointed in 2024; the portion of the €6 million …
795. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of occupational therapists that are currently on panels within Children Disability Network Teams; and the expiry deadline for this panel. [32830/26]