60. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the timeframe in which it is intended to deliver on the Programme for Government commitment to reduce the cost of childcare to €200 per month per child. [50184/25]
Topics / Childcare Services
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsChildcare Services
1,438 questions from 125 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 22 October 2026.
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1,397 written, 41 oral
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| October 2025 | 41 |
| November 2025 | 155 |
| December 2025 | 74 |
| January 2026 | 71 |
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| May 2026 | 107 |
| June 2026 | 144 |
| July 2026 | 64 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 38 |
| October 2026 | 63 |
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63. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide details regarding her Department’s plans to reduce the cost of childcare to €200 per month per child; and if she will provide a timeframe for the delivery of this key Programme for Government commitment. [49996/25]
76. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of creche groups that have withdrawn or pulled out of CORE funding in Cork in 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50182/25]
82. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to report on her Department’s work regarding the development of State-led childcare facilities. [49997/25]
85. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider the construction or acquisition of State-owned childcare facilities in Dublin mid-west, given the high demand for places locally, and in the context of Programme for Government commitments on the delivery of public childcare infrastructure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49905/25]
531. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of ECCE-only services, by county, in 2020 to 2024 by year; her definition of ECCE-only services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49789/25]
534. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of children supported by income-assessed childcare subsidies, by county, in 2020 to 2024, by year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49792/25]
535. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of children supported by universal childcare subsidies, by county in 2020 to 2024, by year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49793/25]
536. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total value of income-assessed childcare subsidies, in 2020 to 2024, by year. [49794/25]
537. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average payment under income-assessed childcare, for 2020 to 2024, by year. [49795/25]
538. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total value of applications granted under the recent €25 million building blocks grant scheme, including appeals; if the appeal process has been completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49796/25]
539. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a review has taken place on the application process for the building block scheme considering the high number of unsuccessful or ineligible applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49797/25]
543. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the development of a forward planning model to identify and compare areas in terms of childcare need; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49815/25]
544. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on progress being made to reduce the administrative burden on childcare providers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49816/25]
545. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department is considering policies to incentivise early learning and childcare providers to operate an extended timetable to accommodate parents requiring earlier drop-off or later collection times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49817/25]
552. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware of the lack of sufficient childcare services, particularly after school programmes in Cork (details supplied); the progress that her Department has made to date in expanding access to after-school childcare services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49855/25]
568. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on phase 2 of the National Action Plan for Childminding 2021-2028; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50252/25]
571. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childminders who have registered with TUSLA and are part of the national childcare scheme, since the expansion of the scheme to include childminders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50302/25]
318. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on restrictive practice as it relates to children with additional needs that are a flight risk; and whether she will instruct her Department to provide supports to carers of children with additional needs to purchase the necessary equipment to safely travel with their children. [49356/25]
319. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for the up-to-date figures of those on the waiting list for an assessment of need across the country, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49357/25]
327. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason children with additional needs are only sponsored with the national childcare scheme until children turn four years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49406/25]
339. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Health the services and supports that will be provided to a child (details supplied) through their CDNT in Cork; if she will provide information on the roll-out of these services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49359/25]
989. Deputy Martin Daly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the initiatives planned by Government to support the establishment of new childcare and preschool facilities in communities where early years services are currently unavailable or significantly lacking, such as Boyle in County Roscommon; if capital funding or other supports are being considered to enable the development of provision from…
1029. Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures being taken by her Department to increase the provision of childcare services in east Cork given the current high demand for places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48013/25]
1075. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of early years services, excluding child minders, which have signed up to the core funding partnership from September 2025 to September 2026. [48254/25]