Questions

165. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to commit to rescheduling the meeting with an organisation (details supplied) at her earliest opportunity. [74693/26]

166. Deputy Daniel Ennis asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding the transposition on the standards for equality bodies directives, the pay transparency directive and the gender balance on corporate boards directive. [74741/26]

167. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the assessments that were undertaken to deduce that the €550 a month band would have the greatest impact overall on childcare costs for families. [74863/26]

168. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the timeline for the implementation of €200 a month childcare costs that were promised as part of the Programme for Government. [74859/26]

169. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the protections that will be put in place for parents who have no choice but to pay for longer contracted hours than the €550 a month childcare cap. [74856/26]

170. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of families who will actually pay €550 per month as part of the cap on childcare fees from 2027; and the percentage of families currently using full-time childcare this would represent. [74855/26]

171. Deputy Daniel Ennis asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the percentage of providers participating in the core funding scheme in Dublin. [74716/26]

172. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of currently unoccupied residential places in HSE-funded disability services that became vacant following the death of a resident, in tabular form, by HSE health region, with separate figures for Cork and Kerry; and the average time taken to fill such places. [74769/26]

173. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of residential places in HSE-funded disability services that are currently unoccupied, in tabular form, by HSE health region, with separate figures for Cork and Kerry. [74768/26]

174. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of residential funding packages approved for disability service providers in 2025 that had been delivered as new residential places by year end, in tabular form by HSE health region, with separate figures for Cork and Kerry; and the reasons any approved packages were not delivered. [74767/26]

175. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of new residential funding packages approved by the HSE for disability service providers in 2025, in tabular form by HSE health region, with separate figures for Cork and Kerry. [74766/26]

176. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to increase funding and staff assessment of need teams and children’s disability network teams to eliminate the backlogs that delay formal diagnosis (details supplied). [74854/26]

177. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the length of time Alexander Manor in Clane, County Kildare will remain closed. [74757/26]

178. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department is working towards a resolution to re-open Alexander Manor in Clane, Co. Kildare; and if she is aware of the number of families this closure has affected. [74758/26]

179. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of times over the past five years that Alexander Manor, Clane, County Kildare has closed down. [74759/26]

180. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason an invitation was sent to service users in Alexander Manor, Clane, County Kildare when the premises was closed. [74760/26]

181. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of occupational therapists and psychologists currently employed by the HSE in the Clontarf, Kilbarrack, Coolock and Coastal Children's Disability Network Teams. [75512/26]

182. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the AsIAm AAC support programme, which is now at full capacity and closed to new applications, will receive funding in 2027 to reopen; the amount allocated; and whether the programme will be extended beyond autistic children to others who need high-tech AAC devices. [74774/26]

183. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for Health her position on developing a renal dialysis service in St. Joseph's care centre in Longford, considering the State savings that would be made in the reduction of taxi usage in accessing renal dialysis care. [74516/26]

184. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health if she will consider adding Addison's disease to the long-term illness scheme. [74619/26]

185. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health to provide an urgent update on the measures being taken to re-establish the public eye-care service in South Tipperary following the retirement over two years ago of the Consultant Ophthalmologist. [74535/26]

186. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for Health for an update on the progress of the senior occupational therapist position recruitment process in Longford-Westmeath. [74521/26]

187. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for Health for an update on the progress of dental screenings for children under 16 years of age. [74519/26]

188. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for Health the progress on the changing of the reimbursement process for new medicines. [74517/26]

189. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Health whether funding for UMAAP for 2027 has been secured; the amount allocated; when funding will be confirmed; and whether she will consider putting UMAAP on a multi-annual funding footing. [74551/26]