Parliamentary questions

1236. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to correspondence received by a childcare service in Dublin 11 regarding damage to its premises (details supplied), the immediate supports that will be offered to the service to ensure as little disruption to staff and families as possible; if his Department will liaise with the relevant o…

1237. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an appointment for a child (details supplied). [1330/25]

1238. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for clarification regarding information provided verbally to some families of day service users of an organisation at a location (details supplied) that these services will be ceasing; if this is the case, the reason this decision has been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [134…

1239. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the number of hours allocated to the care of a person (details supplied) will be increased from thirteen and a half hours to thirty hours, which is what was originally agreed as being the optimum number of hours required by them; and if he will expedite a positive response. [1375/25]

1240. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he is taking to urgently tackle the childcare crisis, particularly the shortage of places available for children under the age of one in the Dublin Southwest area; and his views on the barriers this creates for women returning to work. [1382/25]

1241. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people awaiting a fist appointment in the CDNTs across County Galway; the number who have been waiting less than 3, 3-6, 6-12 and more than 12 months, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1401/25]

1242. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the locations of each assistive technology and specialised seating department within the State; if they are directly run by the HSE or are run on behalf of the HSE by another organisation; and the number and role of staff employed in each of these services. [1416/25]

1243. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 40% of survivors have been excluded from full mother and baby institutional redress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1423/25]

1244. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will amend the eligibility criteria for the mother and baby homes redress scheme. [1424/25]

1245. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department retains the number of former Magdalen laundry residents who are still resident in convents in Ireland; and, if so, the number of former Magdalen laundry residents who are still resident in convents here. [1441/25]

1246. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of people currently waiting for speech and language therapy in Mayo; the number of whom have been waiting 3, 6 months, 1 year and 2 years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1444/25]

1247. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of vacancies in the speech and language therapy in Mayo; and the steps his Department is taking to recruit more SLT professionals in the Mayo region. [1445/25]

1248. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of speech and language therapy professionals who have been recruited in Mayo in each of the past five years.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1446/25]

1249. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of speech and language therapist professional who have left their jobs in Mayo in each of the past five years. [1447/25]

1250. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether a full assessment of needs for a child (details supplied) will be scheduled. [1456/25]

1251. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on whether the Tusla Child and Family Agency has not being compliant with EU public procurement law and Irish public procurement guidelines with regard to money being spent by it on the purchase of services for children and for adults in need who are under their care; and if he will make …

1252. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will give a narrative statement showing whether all public service contracts providing care for children and separately adults with needs in Tusla’s care have been compliant with public procurement laws since 1 January 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1465/25]

1253. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the date, and number of, contracts awarded to provide care for children and adults with needs, respectively, for Tusla; the value of each contract; the identity of the persons the contracts were awarded to as if complying with EU law; if he will he take measures to insist that Tusla and its officia…

1254. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE clinical psychologist based in the children's disability network team based in north Kildare in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [1470/25]

1255. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) who made an application under the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1511/25]

1256. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the regulations that are in place for after school clubs for child to childcare worker ratio; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1523/25]

1257. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the lessons that have been learnt by his Department and Tusla from protected disclosure in relation to an organisation (details supplied) and the subsequent decision not to use the organisation anymore; and the measures that will be taken to avoid a similar situation arising in future. [1544/25]

1258. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will review the national childcare scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1551/25]

1259. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will review the current rules regarding registered childminders, who use their own home, having the facility to use someone on their approved emergency contact list in case of a medical appointment, and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1560/25]

1260. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department and agencies under the aegis of his Department have policies on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the Department and those agencies; whether training has been provided to staff on the use of AI; if his Department has used AI, including large language models, in the…