Parliamentary questions

932. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of staff directly responsible for cybersecurity, as distinct from IT, within her Department; if a threat analyst, vulnerability manager and a cyber infrastructure engineer are employed; if not in-house, if this work is outsourced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9424/26]

933. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the extent to which her Department examines third party supply chain vulnerability when it comes to cybersecurity. [9442/26]

934. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if any of the State’s acquisition of buildings intended for the purpose of developing early year facilities will be located in Dublin’s north city. [9508/26]

935. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the criteria for the State’s purchase of buildings for the purposes of developing early year facilities. [9509/26]

936. Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider reimbursement for parents who are having to arrange private psychological assessments for their children in North Tipperary as there is currently no psychologists to carry out assessments through the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9517/26]

937. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason for the ongoing delays in AON assessments nationwide; the plans her Department has to address this situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9670/26]

938. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will provide not for profit community childcare facilities, on publicly owned land, given private operators are providing these services at huge cost to parents on mixed tenure social affordable developments especially in Fingal which is one of the worst areas in the country for the provision of not…

939. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a person (details supplied) could avail of the respite facility attached to the school they are attending despite living in a different county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9697/26]

940. Deputy David Maxwell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a breakdown of group homes and residential services in the Cavan–Monaghan area by disability type, including those supporting people with intellectual disabilities and those supporting people with physical and/or sensory disabilities; the identified gaps in provision for people with physical and sensory d…

941. Deputy David Maxwell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department or the HSE has conducted a needs assessment for residential group home provision for people with physical and/or sensory disabilities in the Cavan–Monaghan area; if not, when such an assessment will be undertaken; and the way in which future capital and service planning will ensure equitable access…

942. Deputy David Maxwell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on any further announcements, beyond those already made, regarding the establishment of new family resource centres in counties Cavan and Monaghan in 2026; the status of any applications or site assessments relating to Cavan and Monaghan; whether any funding has been ring-fenced for thi…

943. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the list of properties identified for refurbishment for childcare services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9872/26]

944. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on Action 44 of Nurturing Skills to examine development of a range of entry routes into the early years sector, including apprenticeships or other work-based learning, and access programmes in FE and HE; the correspondence she has had with the Minister for Further and Higher Educatio…

945. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of private companies and charities registered by Tusla's Alternative Care Inspection and Monitoring Service as children's homes; and to provide a list of same. [9909/26]

946. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of inspections that have been conducted by Tusla's Alternative Care Inspection and Monitoring Service since it was established, by year; the number of issues that have been identified; and the number of re-inspections that have taken place, by year. [9910/26]

947. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of the recommendations made by the report into special care that have been implemented. [9911/26]

948. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason Tusla has not filled the position of data protection officer (DPO) since 2022; for how long it has had an 'interim' data protection officer"; the number of people that have held this role to date; the efforts being made to fill the role of DPO; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9912/26]

949. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the Programme for Government's commitment to develop a multi-year capital plan for residential living options for adults with intellectual disabilities; if her Department records the number of elderly primary carers in the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9947/26]

950. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to urgently address the issues raised in respect of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10015/26]

951. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the services that are available for a child who has a brain tumour and requires a full-time nurse while attending preschool; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10114/26]

952. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under her remit. [10148/26]

953. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children in County Meath waiting for an assessment of need at the latest available point in 2025 and 2024; the number of assessments conducted in year to date and in 2024; and the number of applications received in those periods, in tabular form. [10269/26]

954. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children waiting for children’s disability network team services in County Meath, at the latest available point in 2025, broken down by team and service type, in tabular form. [10270/26]

955. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of people in County Meath waiting for disability services outside CDNTs, broken down by service type, at the latest available point in 2025, in tabular form. [10271/26]

956. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated full year costs of providing 60,000 additional home support hours. [10313/26]