Parliamentary questions

178. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total amount paid by Tusla to the providers of special emergency accommodation, in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024. [14268/25]

179. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to list companies currently providing special emergency arrangements to Tusla; and if confirmation can be provided that all the staff employed by these companies to care for children have been Garda vetted. [14269/25]

180. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to list the companies who were previously providing special emergency arrangements to Tusla, but with whom Tusla has since ceased contracting; and if a breakdown can be provided on the reasons why. [14270/25]

181. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current status of the Child Law Project; if her Department is currently funding the organisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14271/25]

182. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of Tusla's waiting list for children awaiting a bed in special care; and the number of children on that list and the wait times expected for each number. [14280/25]

183. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children diagnosed with foetal alcohol syndrome and partial foetal alcohol syndrome, in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14281/25]

184. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth regarding the disabled persons’ representative organisations’ (DPROs) specific consultations on the National Disability Strategy, the reason the Government is not closely working with two DPROs (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14307/25]

185. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the State is providing contracts and funding to service providers for human rights-based needs without close consultation with disabled persons’ representative organisations, as per Articles 4(3) and 29 (b(ii)) of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if sh…

186. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline, given that Ireland ranks last in terms of European disability employment, how the Government looks to address these concerns; if the Government will consult all disabled persons’ representative organisations (DPROs) in this respect; to outline the Government’s response to the failure…

187. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when creating and consulting on new employment strategies for disabled people, the reason the Government is prioritising consulting from service providers (details supplied) over certain specialised disabled persons’ representative organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. […

188. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports available to people that suspect that they are living with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, in particular those who are under the age of 16 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14312/25]

189. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps taken to meet the commitments under Article 21 (c) of the WHO Global Strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14313/25]

190. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the progress of the 2022 HSE position paper on the prevention of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14314/25]

191. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the criteria used and the steps taken to diagnose foetal alcohol syndrome and partial foetal alcohol syndrome; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14315/25]

192. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that foetal alcohol spectrum disorder is not deemed by her Department or agencies under her aegis to be a disability at this time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14316/25]

193. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in Louth who applied for an assessment of needs for each of the years 2020 to 2025; the number of assessment of needs carried out for the each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14319/25]

194. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in Louth that are currently awaiting an assessment of need; the number of these children that have been waiting up to three months; the number waiting between three and six months; the number waiting between six and twelve months; the number waiting more than twelve months; …

195. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average waiting time in Louth for a child seeking an assessment of needs. [14321/25]

196. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the longest waiting time in Louth for a child seeking an assessment of needs. [14322/25]

197. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of complaints and appeals received for each year from 2020 to 2025 respectively from persons in Louth who were dissatisfied with their child’s assessment of needs or service statement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14323/25]

198. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the current pathway in place to process assessment of need applications for children in Louth. [14324/25]

199. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown by grade of the current staffing resources in place to process assessment of need applications for children in Louth. [14325/25]

200. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans or proposals in place to ensure that children can access an assessment of need and any subsequent recommended supports within the statutory timeframes, in Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14326/25]

201. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she is aware of a case (details supplied) in which a family have had their subsidised childcare hours slashed from 45 to 31 due to underattendance caused by frequent illness of the child; and if she will instruct her Department to look into this issue and ensure the family has appropriate childc…

202. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports available to children with additional needs in childcare settings where the child is too young to enrol in ECCE and cannot access AIM support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14339/25]