499. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any national guidance, benchmark or threshold framework exists governing the use of Emergency Care Order applications under section 13 of the Child Care Act 1991. [41023/26]
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500. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether their Department receives periodic reports regarding the frequency, outcome or regional variation of Emergency Care Order applications under section 13 of the Child Care Act 1991. [41024/26]
501. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any review has been undertaken since 2020 regarding the adequacy of aftercare supports for care-experienced young adults over 21 years of age, particularly those with histories of special care, psychiatric admission, severe trauma or placement instability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41130/26]
502. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether consideration has been given to extending statutory aftercare eligibility beyond 21 years of age for vulnerable care-experienced young adults with complex needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41131/26]
187. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the circumstances in which Tusla would decide to appeal a full care order passed down by a judge; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40669/26]
988. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if Tusla independently verifies the identity and location of such family members before the child is considered to have left voluntarily [39579/26]
1000. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has issued any formal governance expectations, oversight directives, reporting requirements or policy guidance to Tusla concerning the proportionality, consistency or evidential thresholds applied in Emergency Care Order applications under sections 12 and 13 of the Child Care Act 1991. [39842/26]
1001. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether emergency child removals form part of any Departmental governance, safeguarding, audit or enterprise-risk oversight discussions with Tusla under the Oversight Agreement framework.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39843/26]
1002. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the Department receives any aggregate reporting concerning complaints, judicial criticism, overturned orders, or adverse findings relating to Emergency Care Orders. [39849/26]
1003. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she is satisfied that Tusla's financial systems permitted consistent like-for-like tracking of private residential childcare expenditure prior to 2024. [39854/26]
1004. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any external review has been undertaken into Tusla's historical financial categorisation systems for private residential childcare expenditure. [39855/26]
1006. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla has identified risks arising from inconsistent historical expenditure categorisation relating to private residential childcare services. [39857/26]
1011. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla records expenditure on private residential childcare placements on a provider-by-provider basis internally, notwithstanding the format used in published annual financial statements. [39862/26]
1013. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total amount spent by Tusla on private residential childcare placements in each of the past ten years. [39864/26]
1014. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the percentage increase in Tusla expenditure on private residential childcare placements between 2020 and 2025. [39865/26]
1015. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla applies national pricing ceilings, benchmark rates, or value-for-money assessments when procuring private residential childcare placements. [39866/26]
1016. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla conducts comparative cost analysis between State-operated and privately operated residential childcare placements. [39867/26]
1017. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla records average weekly costs per child by private residential childcare provider. [39868/26]
1019. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla publishes or intends to publish a central register of private residential childcare providers receiving public funding, including annual payments received. [39870/26]
1057. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla disaggregates re referral data to distinguish between new concerns and repeat or unresolved child protection risks; and whether such distinctions are monitored as part of key performance or safeguarding indicators. [40179/26]
1058. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether re referral rates within Tusla are included as formal key performance indicators, governance metrics or safeguarding indicators under the Tusla Oversight Agreement; whether any targets, thresholds or trend analyses are applied to such rates; and if she will provide details of how this information is used at departmental oversi…
1059. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla disaggregates re referral data to distinguish between new concerns and repeat or unresolved child protection risks; and if she will provide the proportion of re-referrals falling into each category in the most recent year for which data is available. [40182/26]
1060. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla collects and reports data on repeat child protection interventions involving the same child or family; whether such data forms part of any performance, risk, or oversight metrics; and if she will provide figures for each of the past five years. [40183/26]
1061. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla records the number of repeat emergency removals involving the same child or household; whether such events are tracked as safeguarding indicators or escalation triggers; and if she will provide data for each of the past five years. [40184/26]
1062. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla records the number of reopened social work cases within specified timeframes following closure; whether these are monitored as indicators of case resolution or system performance; and if she will provide the relevant figures for each of the past five years. [40185/26]