371. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will consider creating more peer support for children who have lost a parent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10454/25]
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372. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff in CDNTs in County Offaly, in tabular form; and the percentage of full-time posts filled for occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech-and-language therapists within each respective unit. [10485/25]
373. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide assurances that her Department’s exclusion of the only disabled persons’ representative organisations (DPRO) specific to visual and physical impairment, respectively (details supplied), will not be reflected in its advice on DPRO participation to other public bodies; and if she will provide a ti…
374. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she accepts that General Comments of UN Conventions are “legally persuasive” documents as per citations in the Irish Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights, and that as such, their definitions and clarifications are of utmost importance to the implementation of the UNCRPD in Ireland; and if she will ma…
375. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she has any concerns over the credibility of the National Disability Inclusion Strategy due to the exclusion of an organisation (details supplied), from the DPO Consultative Framework, these are the only disabled persons’ representative organisations specifically representing the key constituencies of visual imp…
376. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will explain to the UN Committee why the only disabled persons’ representative organisations specifically representing visual impairment and physical impairment (details supplied), have been excluded from the DPO Consultative Framework since its inception in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matt…
377. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she considers the exclusion of two organisations (details supplied), the only disabled persons’ representative organisations specifically representing visual and physical impairments, from her Department’s disabled persons’ representative organisations-specific consultations to be case of indirect discrimination…
378. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how the ongoing exclusion by her Department of the only specialised disabled persons’ representative organisations in visual impairment and physical impairment, respectively (details supplied), is compatible with her Department’s obligations under Article 29 (b (ii)) of the UNCRPD to incentivise disabled people to …
379. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what steps her Department has taken to ensure that the disabled persons’ organisations/disabled persons’ representative organisations her Department is currently closely consulting with on strengthening DPOs/DPROs meet the criteria for being DPROs considering General Comment No. 7, paras. 10-4; and if she acknowled…
380. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the proposals there are to expand and/or provide new family resource centres in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10521/25]
381. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will ensure that an application for a new service will be given detailed and favourable consideration (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10522/25]
382. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a school (details supplied) will be provided with an additional allocation of WTE therapist hours for the new 12 children it is to admit as it has for the existing 36 students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10550/25]
147. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will establish a fund to assist childcare facilities to purchase a generator to ensure that when power is lost, they can open as normal, to ensure education for children is not interrupted and parents are not left without this essential service, as seen following storm Éowyn; and if she will make a statement…
148. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to reduce the waiting times for autism assessments in South Tipperary which are currently taking over two years; if those waiting for over six months can obtain an assessment privately and be reimbursed by the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9883/25]
149. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Leanaí, Comhionannais, Míchumais, Lánpháirtíochta agus Óige cad é líon foirne a Roinne agus cé mhéad díobh sin atá inniúlach sa Ghaeilge; agus cad iad na bearta atá á ndéanamh aici agus ag a Roinn chun an céatadán Gaeilgeoirí sin a ardú. [9971/25]
150. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10027/25]
151. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will request the HSE and other disability service providers in County Kerry to put long-term plans in place to ensure respite centres and other essential services (details supplied) remain open, even in the face of challenges and that a plan is put in place to provide additional greatly-needed respite beds i…
152. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children that travelled from County Monaghan to a location (details supplied) for Saturday respite care in each week since 1 January 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10087/25]
153. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the decision to reduce the service provided to County Monaghan children to travel to a location (details supplied) for Saturday respite care; if she will intervene to restore this service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10088/25]
154. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will ensure that a child (details supplied) has their previous arrangements to attend a location for Saturday respite care restored; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10089/25]
155. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail any EU legislation required to be transposed into Irish law and awaiting referral to an Oireachtas committee from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10234/25]
592. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the Individualised Personal Budget Pilot Programme currently being trialed by the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9280/25]
593. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons at the various stages of the Individualised Personal Budget Pilot Programme; the total amount of funding provided in each of the years since the commencement of the pilot; the breakdown of the costs to date of running the programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9281/25]
594. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline for when the evaluation of the Individualized Personal Budget Pilot Programme will commence and report back on its outcomes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9282/25]
595. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures in place to protect funding for disability services in the event of a fiscal downturn; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9364/25]