Parliamentary questions

1404. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to provide for a period of paid leave consequent upon miscarriage or for the purposes of availing of reproductive healthcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11923/25]

1405. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide information on research commissioned previously to inform plans to modernise youth information services; if this research has been published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11927/25]

1406. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she has considered amending the childminding services regulations 2024 to allow childminders employ assistants, or have emergency cover, for incidents in which the childminder is unavoidably occupied such as for medical appointments or illness; if not, the reasons why; and if she will make a s…

1407. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the vacancy rate of each CDNT in the CHO7 as a percentage of WTEs; the vacant posts in each of those CDNTs by job title, in tabular form; and to specify any of those posts which do not currently have approval to be filled. [11962/25]

1408. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures that will be taken to progressively reduce the cost of childcare to €200 per month per child through the national childcare scheme and explore options to cap costs for larger families, as per the Programme for Government; the timeline for this reduction; and if she will make a statemen…

1409. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to list the organisations funded by the HSE and her Department that work with sufferers of acquired brain injury; the supports available to them for each year from 2019 to 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12000/25]

1410. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions her Department has taken to act on the “Wasted Lives” report and to end the practice of people under 65 years living inappropriately in nursing homes designed for care of older people; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12002/25]

1411. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if funding will be made available to make a facility (details supplied) in Kerry a wraparound service. [12040/25]

1412. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the support services available to children and young people with autism and their families in Dublin Mid-West, excluding services provided by the CDNT; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12076/25]

1413. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if endometriosis will be recognised as a disability. [12085/25]

1414. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding the gradual reduction of childcare costs as committed to in the Programme for Government; the steps she has taken to progress this policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12103/25]

1415. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 188 of 19 February 2025, if the figures provided for CDNT1 and CDNT2 concern different individuals in terms of headcount between each network team and that there is no duplication of headcount between the teams; and if she will make a statement on the matt…

1416. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 188 of 19 February 2025, if she will detail by reference to each network team for each year between 2021 to date in 2025; the total number of children in Sandymount children’s disability network team 1 and Sandymount children’s disability network team 2; a…

1417. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide detailed information on applications for assessment of needs (AON) in Louth; the number of applications received; the number rejected; the number not started yet or have not received a final report; the number of occupational therapy and ASD assessments needed for the AON that were outs…

1418. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE health and social care professionals working in the children's disability network teams in CHO9 in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12144/25]

1419. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of her Department who have a professional accounting qualification, for each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12148/25]

1420. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to identify, by body name and associated skills gap, any skills gaps identified by the chairperson of that board in correspondence to her Department or a Minister in respect of the composition of the board of the body referred, for each year between 2020 and 2025, in tabular form; to identify …

1421. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm that for each year between 2020 and 2025 in respect of the boards of bodies under the aegis of her Department, at least one member of the audit and risk committee of that board has recent, relevant financial experience for each of those years; where that is not the case, to identify…

1422. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm that for each year between 2020 and 2025 in respect of the boards of bodies under the aegis of her Department, that the board has a terms of reference; where that is not the case, to identify that body, by reference to year or years where no terms of reference existed; and if she wi…

1423. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to increase the number of therapists in CDNTs; the current WTE staffing shortage, by CHO area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12234/25]

1424. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will detail, by reference to each discipline and network team, the total number of persons employed in several CDNTs (details supplied) in delivering occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, and psychology, for each of the years 2020 to date in 2025, in tabular …

1425. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she can detail by reference to each network team (details supplied) the total number of children in the network team in each of the years from 2020 to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12245/25]

1426. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a person (details supplied) had their home support hours cut; if she is aware of the consequences of these cuts for their life; when the hours will be restored; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12288/25]

1427. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 19 February 2025, given by way of correspondence from the HSE, the total legal costs incurred by the HSE in relation to a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12299/25]

1428. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to enact key commitments outlined in the Programme for Government (details supplied) in relation to childcare provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12306/25]