Parliamentary questions

788. Deputy George Lawlor asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE clinical psychologists posts filled within Wexford CDNT as of 8 June 2026; if she will provide the same figures as of 30 June 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45369/26]

789. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her proposals to address the issue of children born in January losing out on ECCE years due to the current age cut off point (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45383/26]

790. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if consideration is being given to putting the entitlement to an ECCE place on a statutory footing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45393/26]

791. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if consideration is being given to amending the rules around entry to ECCE schemes to permit greater flexibility around age of entry, on foot of the Independent Review of the ECCE programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45394/26]

792. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will follow through on its threat to withdraw NCS and ECCE for services that have left the core funding system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45395/26]

793. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the process by which the 72 planned residential beds for intellectual disability will be allocated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45426/26]

794. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there is a specific archaeological report for Bessborough in the archive of the Mother and Baby Home Commission of Inquiry held by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45447/26]

795. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will produce the index to the Mother and Baby Home Commission of Inquiry archive and make it publicly available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45448/26]

796. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of special care beds available to Tusla per month in the past 24 months, per location, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45492/26]

797. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of social work vacancies currently in Tusla as broken down in each role/ job title. [45493/26]

798. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to initiate a periodic critical review of Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45494/26]

799. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to urgently provide childcare facilities for children with special needs in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45579/26]

800. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a breakdown, by individual early learning and care and school-age childcare services, of the total core funding payments made under the scheme in year three and year four, showing the amount received by each service in each year respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45729/26]

801. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of persons who have received support through personal budget arrangements and personal managed funds; the total number of hours provided under those arrangements, in each of the past three years and to date in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45775/26]

802. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to extend the national childcare scheme for childminding in the childminder's home and childminding in the family home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45826/26]

803. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childminders who have completed the pre-registration course through the county and city childcare committees to date in 2026, by month, in tabular form. [45827/26]

804. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childminders who have completed the children first course as part of the childminding registration process to date in 2026, by month, in tabular form. [45828/26]

805. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childminders who are now fully registered to date in 2026, by county. [45829/26]

806. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether funding under the early learning and care and school-age childcare schemes will continue to be paid to early education and care services that are required to close temporarily due to a water outage, where the service cannot operate in compliance with Tusla regulations (details supplied) because of the la…

807. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she is satisfied that Tusla’s National Corporate Risk Register does not contain an explicit strategic risk relating to the agency’s reliance on privately provided residential care placements; whether consideration has been given since 2020 to including such a risk on the register; and if she will make a statem…

808. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any regional, area, operational, service-level or directorate risk register maintained by Tusla currently contains a risk relating to the financial, procurement, governance, safeguarding, capacity or market-dependency implications of privately provided residential care placements; and if she will make a statem…

809. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the expenditure incurred by Tusla on privately provided residential care placements in each year from 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026; the proportion of all residential care expenditure represented by such placements in each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45837/26]

810. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla has established a quantified target to reduce the proportion of children in State-funded care placed with private residential childcare providers; the baseline percentage against which progress is being measured; the target percentage to be achieved; the target year for achievement; and if she will make …

811. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla has produced a business case, implementation plan, capacity model, workforce plan or other strategic document setting out how dependency on private residential childcare placements will be reduced; whether such documents contain annual milestones for the period 2026 to 2030; and if she will make a statem…

812. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether reliance on private residential childcare placements has been assessed as a strategic, financial, operational or governance risk by Tusla since 2020; whether this issue has been considered for inclusion on Tusla’s National Corporate Risk Register; whether any formal risk assessment has been completed; and if s…