Parliamentary questions

503. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount of funding given to each county as part of the national childcare scheme and ECCE programme to date, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40528/25]

504. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount of funding given to each county as part of core funding to date, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40529/25]

505. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount of funding given to each county as part of the children's disability service grant fund to date, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40530/25]

506. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department, or any agency under its aegis, has procured services from a company (details supplied), including but not limited to internet connectivity, satellite communications, or associated technologies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40542/25]

196. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE staff grade speech and language therapists based in each children's disability network team within CHO2 in the years of 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [39741/25]

197. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the capital budget allocation to her Department in 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [39761/25]

198. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the proposed move of a crèche to a new building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39794/25]

199. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on any additional childcare facilities planned in the Ballymun and Finglas area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39795/25]

200. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the strategy to ensure services, care and accommodation for disabled people does not move in large measure to the private-for-profit sector as has happened with elder care services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39820/25]

201. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason a service (details supplied) does not have a single service level agreement with the HSE but rather numerous agreements with individual CHOs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39821/25]

202. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will include additional ring-fenced funding to an organisation (details supplied) in Budget 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39877/25]

203. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if he will consider extending the DNA testing to family members who are cousins to identify remains at the mother and baby home in Tuam as a result of advancements in the science of DNA testing since the Bill was enacted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39878/25]

204. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 883 of 8 July 2025, if she will recognise obsessive compulsive disorder as a disability rather than a mental health condition. [39910/25]

205. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports available to ensure people with cerebral palsy can adapt their cars to continue living independent lives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39916/25]

206. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of assessments of need completed by each children’s disability network team, in each area, in each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form. [39940/25]

207. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average waiting times for assessments of need completed by each children’s disability network team, in each area, in each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form. [39941/25]

208. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measure being taken to address the 25% decrease in the number of services who have listed capacity for children under the age of one on their core funding application; to increase the capacity for children under the age of one more generally across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3996…

209. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children on waiting lists for an assessment of need, by area, in each of the years 2020 to 2025; the number overdue for completion; the number completed with a service statement., in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39964/25]

210. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the new forward planning unit will be engaging with city and county childcare committees on the planned provision of public childcare infrastructure in light of the Revised National Planning Framework; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40020/25]

211. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality what the plans are for the operation of new public childcare infrastructure in light of the Revised National Planning Framework; if there is a preference for community-based provision or if private providers will be permitted to lease such facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40021/25]

212. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the length of the waiting list for adult disability respite in each county in each of the past five years, in tabular form; the measures she is taking to increase respite capacity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40035/25]

213. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures she is taking to increase respite capacity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40036/25]

214. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps being taken by her Department to increase capacity for childcare services in Kerry; the number of families currently on a waiting list for childcare services in Kerry; the average waiting times on those lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40037/25]

215. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of people under 18 who are on an autism assessment waiting list, broken down by county; the length of time they have been on this waiting list in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [40038/25]

216. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of residential places for people with a disability currently being provided as of 1 June 2025 or latest date available; and if she will provide a breakdown of same, by CHO area, in tabular form. [40046/25]