180. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE speech and language therapist posts, by grade, filled within Disability Services in CHO8 as of 20 January 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6822/26]
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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]
826. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether funding provided to the Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) is sufficient to meet the full cost of staff wages and related employment costs; whether CRC-funded staff are paid in line with comparable grades within the public health service; to outline any measures being taken to address pay disparities and staff retention issues w…
827. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the assessment that has been carried out on the impact of funding constraints, including wage funding, on staffing levels, waiting lists, and service availability within Central Remedial Clinics; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6358/26]
828. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the HSE provides ring-fenced funding to Central Remedial Clinics (CRC) specifically for the payment of staff wages; whether CRC clinics are expected to absorb pay increases or wage-related costs within existing budgets; if she will clarify the HSE's obligations in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter.…
829. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether additional funding is planned for Central Remedial Clinics in 2026 to address wage pressures, recruitment difficulties, and service demand; if she will outline the timeline and scale of any such funding increases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6360/26]
830. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to the recent media report regarding proposals to purchase “buildings that will provide childcare facilities, the provision that is proposed for County Louth in these plans; the additional supply proposed specifically for areas of disadvantage in the Drogheda and south Louth areas; and when details on these proposals be made ava…
831. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason the HSE’s 2026 Service Plan does not make reference to the Teach an Saol project; if her Department is committed to progressing this vital project nearly four years after it was initially proposed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5426/26]
832. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will meet with guardians ad litem and their representative body (details supplied) in advance of establishing the Guardian ad Litem Service; the steps she is taking to ensure that the service remains independent of Tusla and her Department given neither of these bodies are explicitly specified under section 35E of the Child Care …
833. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the respite centres for children with disabilities which have behavioural therapists within its staff allocation and those that do not, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5464/26]
834. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of occasions in each month of 2025 that a service (details supplied) in Cavan contacted a parent/guardian requesting that a resident be collected early, by the reasons provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5465/26]
835. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of AON reports in 2024 and 2025 with a finding of ‘no disability’ that were the subject of a complaint to the National Complaints Governance and Learning Team; the number of those complaints that are upheld, and result in a complaint report with a recommendation to carry out a new AON on the child concerned; and the number of …
838. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a child (details supplied) with a complex disability could be moved from one children's disability network team in a region to another to better facilitate their caring needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5486/26]
839. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount her Department has spent on legal fees for each of the years 2020-2025, in tabular form. [5530/26]
840. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the funding avenues which are open for after school services for national schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5548/26]
841. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide details of the total number of reviews currently underway in respect of children known to Tusla who are now deceased.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5578/26]
842. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline who conducts reviews relating to the deaths of children known to Tusla, including the structures or bodies responsible for initiating, overseeing, and completing such reviews; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5579/26]
843. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide details of the total number of reviews relating to the deaths of children known to Tusla that have been completed in the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5580/26]
844. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline the key learnings identified from reviews completed in the past five years concerning the deaths of children known to Tusla; to detail how such learnings have been incorporated into practice improvements or policy changes within Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5581/26]
845. Deputy George Lawlor asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the allocation of apartments (details supplied) which were provided free of charge to a therapeutic body; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5604/26]
846. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of applications refused redress to the mother and baby home redress scheme which opened twenty two months ago; the reasons given for such refusals; the number of those refusals being appealed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5605/26]
847. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the response her Department plans to make to the intervention of the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights regarding the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5608/26]
848. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department is undertaking an SME impact analysis on the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024; what this analysis entails; when will it be finished; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5609/26]
849. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a breakdown of expenditure by her Department and bodies, agencies or organisations under her remit on paid verification services on a platform (details supplied) or any other verified account products, for each of the years 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; the number of verified accounts held under each category; the annu…
850. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps she is taking to ensure that the independence of guardians ad litem is fully protected under the proposed new Guardian ad Litem National Service; the rationale for the proposed governance structure; the extent of consultation undertaken with practising guardians ad litem and their representative organisations; the measures bei…