506. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the withdrawal of a childcare centre from the core funding scheme (details supplied) and what actions her Department has taken to engage with the management of this facility to try and maintain their membership of the scheme. [70028/26]
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507. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to consider and reply to correspondence from an organisation (details supplied) regarding lack of funding. [70027/26]
508. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the waiting lists for an assessment of need at end September in each of the years 2022 to 2026, nationally, by region and integrated healthcare area; the number of applications at each stage of the process; the number of assessment reports overdue for completion; the number of applications overdue by more than six, nine and 12 months…
509. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the mechanisms in place to support families that have children in a childcare centre (details supplied) that has indicated that they are withdrawing from the core funding scheme and the related knock-on increase in costs. [70075/26]
510. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the withdrawal of a childcare centre from the core funding scheme (details supplied); and the steps her Department has taken to engage with the management of this facility to try and maintain their membership of the scheme. [70074/26]
511. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she will review HSE guidance and training for adult disability services on the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015, particularly how staff should assess and manage foreseeable safety risks when a person wishes to leave a service unaccompanied; how families’ views should be considered, consistent with the person…
512. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the assessments undertaken by her Department to plan for future childcare demand in the Kildare north constituency; and the metrics used to assess childcare demand and capacity in an area. [70110/26]
513. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures being taken to improve the affordability of childcare for families in the Kildare north constituency; and the level of Government support available to childcare providers and parents in the constituency. [70111/26]
514. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide the headline findings from a report recently drafted but not published by her Department (details supplied); to provide a reason that the document was not published; and whether she will provide a copy of the report directly. [70094/26]
515. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider introducing pay parity for early years and school age care graduates, a doubling of the graduate premium in core funding and investment in three in-service days per year for every early years setting. [70136/26]
516. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will ensure that social care workers working with children and young people in State care, in the community and voluntary social care sector Section 56 organisations funded by Tusla can access the public service pension, and that this is not restricted as planned to specific entities and residential roles outlined in the decade…
517. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to list the cultural institutions, if any, including museums, galleries, libraries, archives, theatres, concert halls, bands, ensembles, and performing companies, operated or hosted by her Department and public bodies or semi-State companies under her Department's remit, identifying the State funding provided for these institutions…
518. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the individualised or person-managed funding arrangements are currently available to disabled people who require substantial personal assistance; can an existing HSE-funded care allocation be transferred into an individualised or person-managed arrangement; and if not, the current pathway for someone in these circumstances to obtain…
519. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount spent by her Department on private third party providers carrying out assessment of needs in the past four years, in tabular. [70374/26]
520. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a list of posts, in each CDNT in the State, which have been removed since September 2025 under the HSE pay and numbers strategy, in tabular form. [70217/26]
521. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason private supervised-access providers, including an organisation (details supplied), can continue to be used under court orders where a State agency has raised safeguarding concerns and ceased using the provider; the regulation and oversight that applies to such providers; whether courts are notified of safeguarding or vet…
522. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the posts that are vacant in each CDNT in the State, in tabular form, which of these posts will be removed by December 31 under the HSE Pay and Numbers Strategy, in tabular form. [70216/26]
523. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will address the ongoing exclusion of counties Sligo and Leitrim as the only remaining counties without an organisation's dedicated, locally-based MS community worker (details supplied); if she will provide the specific funding allocation to the organisation to establish this full-time post for the more than 300 peop…
524. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children from households in which all adults are unemployed, economically inactive or otherwise not in paid employment who receive more than 20 hours per week of subsidised childcare; the average number of hours claimed; and the total cost to the Exchequer of these claims in each year from 2020 to date. [70430/26]
525. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of households in which no adult is in employment that are availing of more than 20-hours-per-week of publicly subsidised childcare under the national childcare scheme or any other State-supported childcare programme; and the corresponding figure in each year from 2020 to date. [70429/26]
526. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to confirm that she will permit the extension of a sponsored claim through the national childcare scheme which is due to expire on the 13 December 2026 for a child (details supplied). [70418/26]
527. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to confirm if a child (details supplied) is on the waiting list for an assessment of need with the local service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [70368/26]
528. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason WALK was not allocated sustainability funding; the assessment undertaken of WALK’s financial position and accumulated residential deficits; the sustainability of WALK’s residential services being expected to be maintained in the absence of additional funding; the measures available to address the historic underfunding that has…
529. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will address the concerns raised in correspondence, details supplied, regarding the absence of sustainability funding for WALK's residential disability services, the impact of historic underfunding and accumulated deficits on the sustainability of those services, and the measures available to support the continuation of resid…
530. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will address the concerns raised in correspondence, details supplied, regarding proposals to develop additional respite supports for children with additional needs through facilities operated by an organisation. [70495/26]