Parliamentary questions

551. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reporting requirements that will apply to providers under the new private panel for assessments; if she will publish quarterly data on the number of assessments completed, average waiting times, and regional breakdowns; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49842/25]

552. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware of the lack of sufficient childcare services, particularly after school programmes in Cork (details supplied); the progress that her Department has made to date in expanding access to after-school childcare services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49855/25]

553. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of community disability network teams in the State; the locations of the teams; the number of CDNTs that are fully staffed; the locations of the teams; the number of WTEs in the CDNT workforce; the current vacancy rate in the CDNT workforce; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4994…

554. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the details of the evaluation of the national childcare scheme promised for 2025; the status of the evaluation; the timeline for completion of the evaluation; her plans to publish the final report of the evaluation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49942/25]

555. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently waiting to be seen by CDNTs in the CHO2 area, by team and number of weeks waiting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49943/25]

556. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently waiting for an assessment of need; the number of children in CHO2 who are currently waiting for an assessment of need; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49944/25]

557. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her Department’s engagement with disabled persons’ organizations and other disability stakeholders in the preparation of the National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49940/25]

558. Deputy George Lawlor asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she intends to allocate funding in the upcoming budget for a team for the south-east region, in line with the Programme for Government commitment to complete the nationwide rollout of community neurorehabilitation teams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49963/25]

559. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to allocate funding in Budget 2026, for a team for the north-west in line with the Programme for Government Commitment to complete the nationwide rollout of community neurorehabilitation teams. [49965/25]

560. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when funding will be allocated for a team for the north-west in line with the Programme for Government Commitment to complete the nationwide roll out of community neurorehabilitation teams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49971/25]

561. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports available for young children with disabilities prior to accessing ECCE; the AIMs support available to children with disabilities before they are two years and eight months old; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50040/25]

562. Deputy William Aird asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide funding for a community neurorehabilitation team for the midlands in Budget 2026, in line with the commitment of the Programme for Government to complete the national rollout of community neurorehabilitation teams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50123/25]

563. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she plans to allocate funding in Budget 2026 for a team for north Dublin in line with the Programme for Government Commitment to complete the nationwide rollout of community neurorehabilitation teams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50138/25]

564. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if he has plans to increase the number of places which allow for the incarceration of individuals under the age of 17 years who have been convicted of a crime.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36301/25]

565. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the action being taken on foot of the post-acute inpatient rehabilitation mapping project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34809/25]

566. Deputy David Maxwell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to publish an updated national strategy for women and girls, and tackle gender inequality. [50234/25]

567. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will provide a manual application form for enduring powers of attorney through the DSS (details supplied) as the person has been unable to utilise the online system with the EPA helpdesk. [50246/25]

568. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on phase 2 of the National Action Plan for Childminding 2021-2028; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50252/25]

569. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 2032 of 8 September 2025, wherein he indicated that the Section 38 and HSE disability workforce grew by over 20% between 2019 and 2025, for any data regarding the number of new HSE and Section 38 disability employees were recruited from Section 39 disability providers, or…

570. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reasons the application of an organisation (details supplied) was not successful in progressing to the next stage of the process of the building blocks extension grant; if contact will be made with them informing them on the scoring they received and to provide feedback to the group for future applications; a…

571. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childminders who have registered with TUSLA and are part of the national childcare scheme, since the expansion of the scheme to include childminders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50302/25]

572. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of vacancies, by job title in each children's disability network team based within Mayo; the expected timeframe for filling each of those vacancies, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50313/25]

573. Deputy Máire Devine asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason a child (details supplied) is still waiting for an assessment to be carried out or a date for the assessment to be scheduled; the position of the child on the list; the timeframe for the assessment to be completed; and the urgent steps that will be taken to expedite same. [50319/25]

574. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she intends to allocate funding in the upcoming Budget for a community neurorehabilitation team for the south east, in line with the Programme for Government commitment to complete the nationwide roll out of community neurorehabilitation teams. [50355/25]

575. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures her Department is taking to address the extensive waiting lists for children seeking appointments for speech and language therapy; the number of children currently on the waiting list in both primary care, and the Children’s Disability Network Teams, for IHA Dublin north county and IHA Dublin north c…