2430. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of new residential disability places that have been created since the publication of the disability capacity review to 2032, in tabular form by year;; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42675/25]
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2432. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality in view of the recent announcement by a service provider (details supplied) if she is willing to release emergency funding to address the crisis now facing hundreds of aging parents who care for their adult children with an intellectual disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42677/25]
2435. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE play therapist posts that were filled at east Clare Children's disability network team in the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [42797/25]
2436. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE psychologist posts that were filled at west Clare Children's disability network team in the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [42798/25]
2437. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE clinical nurse specialist in intellectual disabilities posts that were filled within CHO3 children's disability network teams in the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [42799/25]
2449. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the urgent actions her Department will take to address the backlog of over 14,000 overdue assessments of need for children requiring disability services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43045/25]
2450. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the funding provided in each of the previous five years to CDNT 1, 2 3, 7, and 8 in CHO7, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43087/25]
2472. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline her plans regarding the ongoing research and planning on the development of assistive technologies to be used to assist therapies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43544/25]
2473. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will give an update on the progress of the AAC pilot with AsIAm; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43545/25]
2476. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the changes she proposes to assessment of needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43548/25]
2477. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the positions that are unfilled by the CDNT team, in tabular form; the plans to fill these; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43549/25]
2478. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide the progress being made in workforce planning for staffing of CDNTs and disability services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43550/25]
2481. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the positions and teams unfilled for community neuro rehabilitation teams, by region, in tabular form; the plans to address this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43553/25]
2482. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plan, timeline and cost to deliver 222 extra posts in adult multidisciplinary therapies as promised in the action plan for disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43554/25]
2483. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plan, timeline and cost to deliver around 1,200 additional day service places each year, to ensure places for school leavers who require them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43555/25]
2484. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plan, timeline and cost to deliver 800,000 additional personal assistance hours, and 110,000 additional home support hours respite services, as promised in the action plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43556/25]
2485. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plan, timeline and cost for continued expansion of respite services, including alternative respite options such as 500 new community-based residential care places to replace disability care in large institutional and campus-based settings, around 900 additional residential care places to tackle unmet need and ensure supply keeps…
2486. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plan, timeline and cost for the option of personalised budgets for those with disabilities, giving individuals greater choice and control over how they are supported; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43559/25]
2493. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the status of respite funding for adults with intellectual disabilities and autism in counties Carlow and Kilkenny and specifically the status of promised funding to SOS Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43772/25]
2496. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider supporting the introduction of a 10% candidate quota for people with disabilities on party ballots, in line with the Programme for Government’s commitments to improve equality and political participation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43818/25]
2500. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she plans to provide a community neuro-rehabilitation team in the Dublin and north-east region noting that they do not currently have one. [43899/25]
2509. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider collecting and publishing data on the average number of overnight respite beds and a record of respite bed waiting lists for greater transparency in relation to available respite resources; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44116/25]
2510. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the status of respite funding for adults with intellectual disabilities and autism in Dublin Rathdown. [44117/25]
2513. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to move from an emergency-based approach to a planned, rights-based model of disability support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44192/25]
2518. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the progress being made on rolling out the national information management system for children's disability network teams; and if manual data collection is currently in place for the Dublin and North East Regional Healthcare Area. [44199/25]