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Gary Gannon Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
735. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to give effect to the ban on the practice of conversion therapy at national level (details supplied). [7168/25]
Pat Buckley Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
736. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will take steps in relation to the case of a person (details supplied) and ensure that they are granted access to dietetic support. [7173/25]
Dessie Ellis Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
737. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the length of the waiting list is for a child to see a children’s disability network team for a child resident in Finglas, Ballymun, Whitehall and Beaumont; and when a child (details supplied) will be seen by the CDNT; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7176/25]
Eoghan Kenny Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
738. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason funding to further develop services in Cork and Kerry for residential care for persons with disabilities has not been allocated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7191/25]
Eoghan Kenny Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
739. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of new residential care beds for persons with disabilities delivered following the Disability Capacity Review, published in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7192/25]
Michael Cahill Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
740. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to examine a case regarding international protection (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7240/25]
Eoin Ó Broin Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
741. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department started to write to people with status/leave to remain in direct provision centres giving them dates by which they would have to leave the direct provision centre or be moved to another centre; the number of such letters issued to date; the criteria for issuing such letters; the rationale for this…
Matt Carthy Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
742. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his department has received an application for the development of a family resource centre for Carrickmacross, County Monaghan; if she will allocate the necessary funding to bring this important project to fruition; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7327/25]
Matt Carthy Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
743. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she intends to increase grant supports to family resource centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7328/25]
Pa Daly Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
744. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide the average waiting times for physiotherapy broken down by county; a breakdown of the length of the waiting list in each of the years 2014 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7335/25]
Pa Daly Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
745. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide the average waiting times for occupational therapy broken down by county; a breakdown of the length of the waiting list in each of the years 2014 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7336/25]
Pa Daly Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
746. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps that have been taken to have the vacant posts in CDNTs filled; the steps that have been taken to improve staffing levels in the service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7337/25]
Pa Daly Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
747. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average waiting times for speech and language therapy broken down by county; a breakdown of the length of the waiting list in each of the years 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7338/25]
Pa Daly Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
748. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff in the Child Disability Networks Teams in County Kerry; and the percentage of posts filled in occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and psychology and other disciplines, in tabular form. [7339/25]
Matt Carthy Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
749. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his Department’s plans to buy a series of centres to house international protection applicants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7342/25]
Matt Carthy Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
750. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will actively engage with communities before opening IPAS centres in their areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7343/25]
Carol Nolan Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
751. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total youth service grant allocation to all 16 ETB in 2024, in tabular form; if she will seek to immediately increase grant allocation for the Laois Offaly Education Training Board to enable an increase in service-provision capacity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7364/25]
Holly Cairns Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
752. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 978 of 5 February 2025, the breakdown of the overdue applications for assessments of need, by the number of months that individuals have been waiting, for each local health area, in tabular form. [7424/25]
Aidan Farrelly Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
753. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide a schedule of all external legal consultation that she engaged in, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; the general nature of the engagement; if the external consultation resulted in a report and or recommendations; and the cost of each consultant and or company engaged, in tabular form. [7429/25]
Catherine Connolly Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
754. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 589 of 11 June 2024, the steps she has taken to resolve the impasse between an organisation (details supplied) and the Decision Support Service whereby persons are unable to complete and enduring power of attorney (EPA) application following instruction by the organisation …
Seán Ó Fearghaíl Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
755. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to hire a psychologist and a fulltime speech therapist for the CDNT in Carlow (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7458/25]
Grace Boland Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
756. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department has undertaken a review of the ECCE funding provided to the sector with a view to increasing the rates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7485/25]
Holly Cairns Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
757. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is her intention under the Parental Leave Act 1998, for parents and guardians of children, to extend the age limit from 12 to 18 years of age. [7486/25]
Tom Brabazon Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
758. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a person (details supplied) will receive early intervention services from their local CDNT team. [7491/25]
Albert Dolan Written 25 Feb 2025 · to Children
759. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide data on the final cost of public procurement tenders where her Department or agencies under the aegis of her Department acted as the contracting authority in each of the past five years, indicating the number of tenders where the final cost was under, on, or over the contract award value at the time of ten…