715. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide details of the amount spent or incurred by the Decision Support Service on PR consultants or PR advice in respect of the calendar year 2023, calendar year 2024 and 1 January 2025 to 31 May 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32400/25]
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716. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding a review of the effectiveness of the Director of the Decision Support Service provided for under section 102(3) of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015; if it has been completed; the timeline for when the report of the review will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32401/25]
243. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide details (as at 1 October 2024 and as at 1 April 2025) on the number of persons working in any capacity on the helpdesk to assist with the creation of enduring powers of attorney at the Decision Support Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18050/25]
244. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide details of the level of funding that was provided to the Decision Support Service during 2024, and any such additional funding that has been provided during 2025, for the purpose of facilitating the engagement of additional staffing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18051/25]
245. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide details of the expenditure incurred, broken down by year, on developing social media videos on topics relating to the services provided by the Decision Support Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18052/25]
246. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans developed to reduce the existing six-month time period that it takes the Decision Support Service to process an application to create an enduring power of attorney; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18053/25]
754. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 589 of 11 June 2024, the steps she has taken to resolve the impasse between an organisation (details supplied) and the Decision Support Service whereby persons are unable to complete and enduring power of attorney (EPA) application following instruction by the organisation …
816. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number, by month of the number of enduring power of attorney that have entered into force, that is, have been activated pursuant to section 71C of the Assisted Decision-Making Capacity Act 2015, as amended as of 31 January 2025, since the Decision Support Service's establishment, in tabular form; and if…
817. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown of the total number, by month of applications for the creation of an enduring power of attorney that have been registered pursuant to section 69 of the Assisted Decision-Making Capacity Act 2015, as amended as of 31 January 2025, by month, since the Decision Support Service's establishment, in tabul…
818. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown of the total number, by month of applications, for the creation of an enduring power of attorney that have been completed, that is, application for registration submitted pursuant to section 68(1) of the Assisted Decision-Making Capacity Act 2015, as amended as of 31 January 2025, since the Decision…
819. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of applications for the creation of an enduring power of attorney that are active on the Decision Support Service system as of 31 January 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8138/25]
820. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown of the total number, by month of applications, for the creation of an enduring power of attorney that have been attempted or begun or initiated in any way on the DSS portal, in the period 1 January 2024 up to 1 January 2025, but in respect of which there has been no user activity for a period in exc…
821. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details, by reference to the period during the period 1 February 2024 to 31 January 2025, of the average processing time form the point of submission of an application to the point of the registration of an enduring power of attorney for both online and paper applications for an application for the reg…
184. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of enduring powers of attorney that have been created since the commencement of the Assistant Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015. [6467/25]
243. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she is satisfied that the intent of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Act 2022 is working as intended given that a tiny number of solicitors (details supplied) across the State will only provide the legal practitioner statement as part of the Decision Support Service enduring power of attorney …
244. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she intends to engage with the Law Society of Ireland on their practise decision of 15 February 2024 which appears to advise against solicitors only providing the legal practitioner statement with the Decision Support Service enduring power of attorney process and that the ideal is to participate from start to f…
1190. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to review matters (details supplied) regarding the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015; to provide clarity on these three specific questions regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46778/24]