Family Resource Centres

857. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to review an application by a group (details supplied); if this application is still live to be considered for the next round of funding to be announced this year; if not, if re-application on behalf of the group is required; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5848/26]

859. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress being made in relation to the announcement of new family resource centres in 2026; whether Ballybunion, County Kerry, will be considered for designation as a family resource centre given the growing population and demand for family and community supports in the area; and if she will make a statement on the ma…

257. Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide details of new family resource centres delivered in 2025. [4775/26]

2. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will provide additional and multiannual funding for therapeutic and counselling supports, such as play therapy, currently provided in family resource centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73394/25]

39. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department is aware of the additional demands being put on the family resource network from other Government and non-Government agencies; her plans to support this additional work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73395/25]

633. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the options available to a family resource centre (details supplied) in need of more space, which owns its own site and is seeking funds to build on it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [71303/25]

393. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason the child and family agency, Tusla, has decided to close the aftercare service based at Liberty Street House in Cork city; if Tusla has put in place an alternative service to meet the needs of the young people affected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68600/25]

469. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the options available to a family resource centre desperately in need of more space, which owns its own site and is seeking funds to build on it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [67317/25]

482. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the options available to an existing family resource centre, under the national forum to buy a premises as a permanent home in order to develop; the funding which is available; if an existing vacant building can be purchased; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [67441/25]

492. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when a decision will be made on the ten family resource centres to be included in the national forum and annual funding as per Budget 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [67699/25]

727. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the capital funding programmes under his Department, including the Community Centres Investment Fund, the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund and the LEADER Programme, that are open to applications from family resource centres seeking to acquire, construct, or refurbish permanent buildings; t…

463. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the capital funding available in her or other Government departments to finance the building of a Tusla-funded child and family centre that has been provided with land by a local authority and has a grant of planning permission. [66811/25]

781. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the way in which a community group can establish a family resource centre; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66036/25]

84. Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline the Government’s commitment to family resource centres; for an update on the work done by family resource centres across the country; and the potential for establishing more family resource centres. [61878/25]

146. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the supports she is providing for family resource centres in Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61295/25]

836. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware that there is only one Family Resource Centre in Cork City; her plans to remedy this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61067/25]

837. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she is aware that a resource centre (details supplied) have submitted an application for family resource centre status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61068/25]

838. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when an announcement will be made on the additional 10 family resource centres; and if a resource centre (details supplied) will be in this cohort given the lack of family resource centres in Cork city. [61069/25]

1487. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the funding which is available for a Waterford based family resource centre to upgrade and refurbish a recent building acquisition; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58207/25]

1507. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps she will take, in light of Budget 2026's allocation of €3.2 million to expand the Family Resource Centre (FRC) Programme by ten additional centres nationwide bringing the total to 136 and given that none of the five FRCs funded in Budget 2025 were allocated to Cork city, to ensure that one of these new cent…

1515. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider the need for a family resource centre in north Cork city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58611/25]

1521. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider granting inclusion for a centre (details supplied) in the Family Resource Centre Programme funding which was announced in Budget 2026 for ten additional family resource centres, in view of the fact there is no family resource centre in the northern side of Cork City; if she is aware that no centre…

1531. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a family resource centre is being considered for a centre (details supplied) in the recent funding announcement of 10 new Family Resource Centres in Budget 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58999/25]

1547. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the funding streams available in her Department to family resource centres for capital projects; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59325/25]

1611. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the status of the newly announced family resource centre in Carrickmacross; when this centre will become operational; the number and titles of staff allocated; the services that will be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60048/25]