641. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any national targets, benchmarks or expected timelines exist for permanency planning decisions involving children in care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47800/26]
Parliamentary questions
Questions
TDs ask ministers questions to get answers on the record, most of them in writing. Here is every one asked in the 34th Dáil, by the department it went to and the subject heading it was filed under. How questions work
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Department names as the record prints them. Some changed in June 2025.
All 20 departments
| Department | Questions | Oral | Written |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 27,764 | 145 | 27,619 |
| Education | 14,148 | 145 | 14,003 |
| Transport | 11,178 | 139 | 11,039 |
| Justice | 9,962 | 135 | 9,827 |
| Housing | 9,139 | 160 | 8,979 |
| Children | 8,691 | 142 | 8,549 |
| Social | 5,914 | 135 | 5,779 |
| Finance | 5,884 | 153 | 5,731 |
| Agriculture | 4,894 | 136 | 4,758 |
| Enterprise | 3,942 | 139 | 3,803 |
| Climate | 3,915 | 130 | 3,785 |
| Foreign | 3,868 | 190 | 3,678 |
| Public Expenditure | 3,737 | 167 | 3,570 |
| Further and Higher Education | 3,437 | 140 | 3,297 |
| Taoiseach | 2,649 | 1,479 | 1,170 |
| Defence | 2,599 | 179 | 2,420 |
| Culture | 2,492 | 147 | 2,345 |
| Rural | 2,361 | 140 | 2,221 |
| Environment | 1,029 | 26 | 1,003 |
| Tourism | 703 | 31 | 672 |
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642. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current capacity of registered school-age childcare (before-school and afterschool/“sherpa”) services in Ballincollig, Cork north central; whether her Department or Tusla holds data on unmet demand for such places in the area; whether her Department has been notified of any existing provider in Ballincollig withdrawing or reducing af…
643. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the assessment her Department has made of the impact of population growth in Ballincollig, Cork north central on demand for school-age childcare places; whether the County Childcare Committee structure in Cork has flagged Ballincollig as an area of capacity concern; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47802/26]
644. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on the labour market impact where a parent, disproportionately the lower-paid parent in a household, is forced to reduce working hours or exit the workforce due to the unavailability of afterschool childcare; whether her Department has conducted or commissioned any analysis of this effect on workforce participation and tax reve…
645. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to review the NCS to facilitate greater flexibility of hours of attendance with no subsequent penalisation of NCS entitlement or provider funding. [47820/26]
646. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 393 of 29 January 2026, if a copy of Tusla’s Personal Data Breach Policy and Breach Management Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) and new staff guidance on reporting data breaches can be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47836/26]
647. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide details of all recorded incidents of Tusla 'personal data breaches' for 2025 and to date in 2026, broken down for each recorded incident (details supplied). [47837/26]
648. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the strategy in place to provide continuing professional development in the early years sector; the plans to expand CPD offerings for educators working in the sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47838/26]
649. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the subject areas that are a priority for continuing professional development in the early years sector; the number of CPD fields of study that will be made available; the total budget figure that her Department has committed to the provision of CPD; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47839/26]
650. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps being taken to ensure continuing professional development is available across early years services statewide; if she accepts that widespread access to CPD is vital to the implementation of the Aistear framework and creating inclusive learning environments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47840/26]
651. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline the verification and assurance process that is implemented in the Department to ensure that continuing professional development standards are met in the early years sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47841/26]
652. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the timeframe and process for her Department's commitment to ratifying the second optional protocol of the UNCRC; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47867/26]
653. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the new Therapeutic Services Plan for the south-east. [46865/26]
654. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the level of HSE expenditure spent on private mental health services, by service type, in each health area in 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [47096/26]
655. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the level of HSE expenditure spent on private rehabilitation services, by service type, in each health area in 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [47098/26]
656. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the level of HSE expenditure spent on private radiography services, by service type in each health area in 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [47099/26]
657. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the level of HSE expenditure spent on private radiology services, by service type in each health area in 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [47100/26]
658. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health if her Department or agencies funded by it undertake any research on the impact of elevated heat levels in Ireland, caused by climate change, on public health; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47161/26]
659. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Health to commit to providing a national brain injury case management service to reach every person with a brain injury regardless of location; the specific provision that will be made to care for children with a brain injury; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47213/26]
660. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health the details of the way in which acute hospitals will be integrated in the HSE/Tusla joint protocol; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46823/26]
661. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Health the number and percentage of WTE consultants based at the National Maternity Hospital that are currently on public only contracts, in tabular form. [46834/26]
662. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Health the number of consultants applicants, interviewees and appointees arising from advertisements placed in a journal (details supplied) in each of the years 2023 to 2025, and to-date in 2026, in tabular form. [46835/26]
663. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE perfusionists based at CHI Temple Street as of 15 June 2026, in tabular form. [46836/26]
664. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); if she will review the decision to grant a GP visit card rather than a full medical card given the circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46845/26]
665. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the taxi contracts in place for Letterkenny University Hospital; the contractors currently in place; and the cost of the contracts. [46846/26]