120. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Education and Youth the measures in place to ensure that children awaiting an assessment of need or formal diagnosis are not disadvantaged when seeking access to special education supports or placements; and if her Department intends to review the eligibility criteria for special classes. [74756/26]
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58. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the progress being made to provide alternatives to assessment of needs. [65850/26]
1. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the progress of the establishment of the new autism assessment service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47690/26]
24. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently waiting on assessment of needs over the statutory waiting time, in each RHA area, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47426/26]
38. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Education and Youth the progress being made to create an alternative to the assessment of needs reports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28204/26]
502. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the clinical expertise that will be offered to the autism assessment officers, that will decide on the applications that will go onto the intervention protocol list; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29470/26]
289. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the recently revised assessment of need framework limits or reduces access to cognitive assessment for children, including in cases where intellectual disability is not suspected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22626/26]
290. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the way in which the recently revised assessment of need framework ensures that children with uneven developmental profiles, including those who may be gifted or twice-exceptional (i.e. children with both high ability and additional needs such as autism, ADHD or dyslexia), will be appropriately identified within the system; and if sh…
291. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the Department has conducted any impact assessment on how recently revised assessment of need framework may affect the identification of children whose needs are masked by high cognitive ability or compensatory functioning; the safeguards in place to prevent under-identification of such children, particularly in light of evid…
292. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to clarify if access to cognitive or psychological assessment remains available where there is evidence of significant intra-individual discrepancy, asynchronous development, or unexplained underachievement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22629/26]
293. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if consideration has been given to the potential for increased reliance on private assessments arising from any restriction in public access to cognitive assessment, the implications this may have for equity of access; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22630/26]
294. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the training or guidance is being provided to assessment officers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure that complex presentations, including masking and twice-exceptionality, are recognised under the revised assessment of need model; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22631/26]
295. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to confirm whether the Department intends to review the implementation of the revised assessment of need framework to ensure that no cohort of children is excluded from identification due to the streamlining of assessment processes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22632/26]
549. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the initiatives and legislative change under way to deal with the backlog in the assessment of needs (AON) list; the way these will impact on reducing the waiting lists for AONs and provide greater access to the necessary therapies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13211/26]
1881. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently waiting for assessment of needs, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74021/25]
96. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the engagement there has been with the Department of Education and Youth on the autism protocol to ensure that assessments of need are not required for school places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [72980/25]
79. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reasons her Department accredits for the lengthy waiting lists for assessment of needs; the progress being made in developing legislation in this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61490/25]
993. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans for assessing the best means of carrying out assessments of needs and therapies provision for those with autism; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47558/25]
996. 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. [47561/25]
2474. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans for assessing the best means of carrying out assessments of needs and therapies provision for those with autism; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43546/25]
2475. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the waiting lists for those awaiting assessments of needs, by time and county, the projected waiting list by the end of 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43547/25]
92. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to address the issue of waiting times for assessments of needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32283/25]
147. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide an update on the waiting times for assessment of needs across the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20930/25]
144. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown, by county, of the numbers of children waiting on assessments of needs and therapies across the State; the plans in place to reduce the backlogs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6976/25]