Parliamentary questions

485. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to set out a timeline for the release of the working paper on respite services. [31673/25]

486. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to report on the progress of implementing the actions set out in the autism innovation strategy. [31674/25]

487. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to report the budget for her Department’s disability, governance and performance unit. [31675/25]

488. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of special emergency arrangements used by Tusla since 2020. [31676/25]

489. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on her Department’s work to address Tusla's difficulties in hiring sufficient staff for special care units. [31677/25]

490. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the external review of Tusla's special care will be released. [31678/25]

491. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to set out a timeline for the updating of the Childcare Act 1991. [31679/25]

492. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to report the number of facilities in Dublin that received Building Blocks capital funding. [31680/25]

493. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to report how funding from the Building Blocks capital scheme was allocated between the scheme’s four strands. [31681/25]

263. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas members within her Department, including all subsidiary bodies, in tabular form. [30768/25]

264. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by her Department or bodies under its aegis, which had contracts valued in excess of €1million that failed to reach completion; the value that was written off, for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on t…

265. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide, the list of capital projects, by her Department or bodies under its aegis, which had contracts valued in excess of €5million, which ran over cost in 2023, along with a description of the contract, the initial price and final price provided, in tabular form. [30816/25]

266. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of sanctioned posts and filled posts, by discipline and school, for therapists in Cork special schools. [30868/25]

267. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average length of time spent per assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005, where a finding of no disability or additional need was recorded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30912/25]

268. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of individual psychologists, that are directly employed by the HSE, who conduct assessment of need processes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30954/25]

269. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will identify by name each section 38 organisation who conduct assessment of need processes for the HSE; if she will identify referable to that section 38 organisation the total individual number of psychologists employed or contracted by that section 38 organisation who conduct assessment of need processes…

270. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will identify by name each section 39 organisation that carries out an assessment of need process for the HSE; if she will identify referable to that section 39 organisation the total individual number of psychologists employed or contracted by that section 39 organisation who conduct assessment of need pro…

271. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will identify the name of the entity or entities that the HSE contract or contracted to deliver the assessment of need waiting list initiative, in tabular form; if she will identify the total number of individual psychologists provided by the contracted entity or entities to carry out the assessment of need…

272. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality how the HSE determines when a psychologist who is conducting an assessment of need process, either directly or indirectly for the HSE, is suitably qualified to conduct that assessment of need; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30958/25]

273. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the full-year cost via the national childcare scheme to reduce childcare fees to €200 per month. [31085/25]

274. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the full-year cost of increasing the wages across all grades of early years educators by €1.50 per hour [31086/25]

275. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the full-year cost of including all family resource centres into the national forum based on the number that applied for inclusion this year (five were to join). [31087/25]

276. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the full-year cost of opening all available beds in special care settings. [31088/25]

277. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 341 of 22 May 2025, if the HSE will reply to this Deputy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31093/25]

278. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 342 of 22 May 2025, if the HSE will reply to this Deputy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31094/25]