2496. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider supporting the introduction of a 10% candidate quota for people with disabilities on party ballots, in line with the Programme for Government’s commitments to improve equality and political participation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43818/25]
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2497. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she plans to sanction the final €5 million in funding needed to complete a complex (details supplied) which would, upon completion, serve to considerably reduce waiting times for assessments and therapies for children with disabilities.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43837/25]
2498. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if an annual €3 million funding uplift can be provided to an organisation (details supplied) starting in 2026 on the grant register to address their current funding deficit position and stop the escalating financial losses on funded services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43893/25]
2499. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider putting in place an annual inflationary increase on section 56 funding as was the practice prior to the 2008 financial crash which would assist certain organisations that support children (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43896/25]
2500. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she plans to provide a community neuro-rehabilitation team in the Dublin and north-east region noting that they do not currently have one. [43899/25]
2501. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to confirm that consideration would be given to reforming the core funding model for childcare centres, to provide additional funding for the scheme, to remove the cap on funding for childcare providers which has been reduced from €500,000 to €450,000, which may discourage childcare providers from continuing in the scheme; and if she wil…
2502. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will outline any proposed funding opportunities for community childcare buildings to improve their facilities given current funding seems to only allow for extensions rather than improvements. [43915/25]
2503. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost of increasing foster care allowance rates by €15 or €25, or alternatively index linking it to inflation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44052/25]
2504. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost of increasing the aftercare allowance to the same rate as foster care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44053/25]
2505. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the current funding streams for childcare; the breakdown of the additional funding provided in Budget 2025, in tabular form; the expected funding required in 2026 to maintain existing levels of service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44054/25]
2506. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the additional funding required to reduce the costs of childcare for parents to respectively €50 per week or €200 per month; to provide a breakdown of the additional allocations required, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44055/25]
2507. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the additional funding required to increase funding for the ECCE scheme by 10%; if she will provide a breakdown of those proposed new funding levels, in tabular form; when funding for ECCE was last increased; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44056/25]
2508. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the timeframe for when additional funding will be provided for a service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44067/25]
2509. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider collecting and publishing data on the average number of overnight respite beds and a record of respite bed waiting lists for greater transparency in relation to available respite resources; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44116/25]
2510. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the status of respite funding for adults with intellectual disabilities and autism in Dublin Rathdown. [44117/25]
2511. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she or her Department plan to alter the current departmental description of autism spectrum disorder as an umbrella term, with increased additional needs being included in this area over time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44168/25]
2512. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider extending paid maternity leave or increasing parents' leave as an interim measure to support working families with infants under one year-of-age, given the current gap in childcare availability for this age group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44191/25]
2513. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to move from an emergency-based approach to a planned, rights-based model of disability support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44192/25]
2514. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the actions her Department is taking to reduce the backlog of over 14,000 overdue assessments of need for children with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44193/25]
2515. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will outline any new funding or staffing measures being put in place to clear the assessment of need backlog, particularly in high-pressure areas such as CHO9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44194/25]
2516. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the timeframe within which she expects the current backlog in disability assessments and supports for children to be resolved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44195/25]
2517. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department is working with the HSE to develop a long-term plan to ensure timely access to assessments, therapies and supports for children with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44196/25]
2518. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the progress being made on rolling out the national information management system for children's disability network teams; and if manual data collection is currently in place for the Dublin and North East Regional Healthcare Area. [44199/25]
2519. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there are any plans to collect data for individual disciplines such as SLT, OT, physiotherapy and so on, within the children's disability network teams in the Dublin and North East Regional Healthcare Area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44200/25]
2520. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to ensure the implementation of the public sector equality and human rights duty in the operation of her Department and any related state bodies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44242/25]