1043. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Children First provides specific national guidance on the sex of adults supervising children in circumstances involving changing, showering, toileting or sleeping arrangements; whether it provides guidance where the sex of a supervising adult differs from their gender identity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65…
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1044. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether organisations working with children are permitted to determine independently the sex or gender of adults considered suitable to supervise children in changing rooms, showers, toilets and sleeping accommodation; whether her Department monitors consistency in such safeguarding arrangements; and if she will make a statement on the …
1045. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether national child safeguarding guidance requires consideration of the sex of adults supervising children in settings involving changing, showering, toileting or sleeping arrangements; whether her Department has provided guidance on how such arrangements should operate where the sex of a supervising adult differs from their gender i…
656. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department has itself sought confirmation from Tusla as to whether any of any specific gaps are in fact recorded on the Corporate Risk Register, as distinct from restating who bears responsibility for maintaining that register. [52828/26]
657. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department Oversight Agreement with Tusla provides any mechanism by which her Department is made aware of the contents of the Corporate Risk Register; or whether her Department has no visibility of it whatsoever. [52829/26]
658. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality given that three separate and substantively different governance gaps have now been put to her Department and met with the same non-substantive reply, whether she accepts that her Department is currently unable to state whether any of these matters are being treated as risks by Tusla at all. [52830/26]
662. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos.1606 and 1614 of 9 June 2026, (details supplied), to confirm whether a defined threshold or escalation trigger exists for repeated placement breakdowns, and, if so, the threshold; whether the 328 figure, or equivalent data on repeat placements, is reported through any national governance, risk regis…
1650. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has assessed the impact of review delays on child protection learning and service improvement. [43235/26]
1720. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of child protection referrals classified as re-referrals in each year from 2020 to 2025, nationally and by Tusla service area; the percentage of total referrals represented by re-referrals in each year; and whether Tusla has undertaken any analysis of the relationship between re-referrals and subsequent adverse child protecti…
830. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla maintains any centralised audit, review or quality assurance process relating to emergency child removals carried out under sections 12 and 13 of the Child Care Act 1991. [36688/26]
831. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of emergency child removal applications made under sections 12 and 13 of the Child Care Act 1991 in each year from 2020 to 2025, and the number granted, refused or withdrawn. [36689/26]
832. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla records or analyses complaints, adverse findings, judicial criticisms or legal challenges arising from emergency child removal decisions under sections 12 and 13 of the Child Care Act 1991. [36690/26]
833. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla has conducted any internal review of the governance, oversight, consistency or proportionality of emergency child removal practices under the Child Care Act 1991 since 2020. [36691/26]
834. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any national policy, procedural framework or mandatory oversight mechanism exists governing decision-making thresholds for emergency child removals under sections 12 and 13 of the Child Care Act 1991. [36692/26]
835. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether consideration will now be given to including emergency child removal decisions within Tusla’s enterprise risk management or corporate governance framework following confirmation that no such consideration has previously taken place. [36693/26]
836. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason Tusla does not readily hold annual expenditure data on private childcare placements prior to 2024; and whether she is satisfied with the Agency’s financial data retention and reporting systems. [36695/26]
837. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla maintains a central database recording expenditure by private childcare placement provider; and if so, whether she will provide the total expenditure by provider for 2024 and 2025. [36696/26]
838. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of children placed in private residential childcare settings in each year from 2020 to 2026, in tabular form. [36697/26]
839. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the proportion of all residential childcare expenditure accounted for by private providers in each year from 2020 to 2026. [36700/26]
840. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of Tusla-operated residential childcare places added nationally in each year from 2020 to 2026. [36702/26]
841. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla tracks the number of emergency placements made due to shortages in public residential capacity; and if she will provide the annual figures from 2020 to 2026. [36703/26]
842. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the Department has received any briefing regarding risks associated with reliance on private residential childcare placements, including cost inflation, placement shortages, or geographic dependency. [36704/26]
481. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the absence of a national dataset tracking formally reopened child protection cases has ever been discussed within the governance, oversight, audit, or risk-management engagements held between her Department and Tusla. [36072/26]
449. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently in State care who do not have an identified permanency pathway recorded in their care plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33783/26]
450. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children in State care for more than two years who have not yet achieved a permanency outcome; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33784/26]