Parliamentary questions

Disability Services

Paul Donnelly

454. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a report on the provision of disability respite services in CHO7 in 2023 and to date in 2024. [9247/24]

Disability Services

Paul Donnelly

455. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated number of additional respite hours that would be delivered by opening three additional full-time seven-bed respite centres. [9248/24]

Disability Services

Alan Kelly

456. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full year cost of recruiting two additional senior staff grade physiotherapists and two additional clinical specialist in the area of psychology for each children's disability network teams. [9260/24]

Disability Services

Alan Kelly

457. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and location of summer camp-based specialist services for children with complex support needs that will be established in County Tipperary for summer 2024. [9261/24]

Health Services Staff

Alan Kelly

458. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE clinical nurse specialists in behaviours of concern working within CHO areas 3 and 5 in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [9262/24]

Direct Provision System

John Brady

459. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of adults and children in direct provision centres, broken down by centre, in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9291/24]

Direct Provision System

John Brady

460. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of adults and children remaining in direct provision centres, broken down by centre, in County Wicklow, after their leave to remain has been granted, for the most recent date available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9292/24]

Disability Services

Claire Kerrane

461. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that the proposed buildings to be used in children disability network teams in area 9 have infrastructural issues (details supplied); if these issues will be resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9301/24]

Disability Services

Claire Kerrane

462. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if children's disability network teams in an area (details supplied) have been trained in the information management system. [9302/24]

Disability Services

Claire Kerrane

463. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of current vacancies in children's disability network team area 9; and the number of current vacancies due to absence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9303/24]

Departmental Consultations

Ivana Bacik

464. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on his engagement with external stakeholders in respect of the provision of paid leave for persons who have experienced a pregnancy loss before 24 weeks' gestation, or to facilitate access to reproductive healthcare treatments; if he will list the stakeholders which have made representations to him on the matters; and the position of his Department in respect of the measure since the completion of a UCC study on the issue. [9312/24]

Mother and Baby Homes

Mark Ward

465. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it will be possible for a person to apply for the mother and baby institutions payment scheme if their relative who was the deceased relevant person died prior to 13 January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9330/24]

Childcare Services

Neasa Hourigan

466. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports available to assist childcare providers availing of ECCE funding with the extra costs associated with the new requirement to file detailed charter accounts reviewed by an accountant when previously childcare providers filed self-assessment accounts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9339/24]

Disability Services

Cormac Devlin

467. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9382/24]

Data Centres

Cormac Devlin

468. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the location of the data centre or centres used by his Department; the reason it was chosen; the distance it is from his Department’s offices; if he will identify the centres used by each agency under his Department’s aegis; and the distance these data centres are to their offices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9397/24]

Disability Services

John Lahart

248. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can provide any information on funding that may be available for providers of early intervention services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8417/24]

Parental Leave

Fergus O'Dowd

249. Deputy Fergus O'Dowd asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to respond to concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8440/24]

Asylum Seekers

Carol Nolan

250. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of asylum seekers currently being accommodated at a location (details supplied); the number at this site who are single males with no other family members on site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8464/24]

Disability Services

Michael McNamara

251. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 255 of 15 June 2023, if a business case proposal has been submitted to the HSE disability services for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8470/24]

International Protection

Pearse Doherty

252. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of hotel beds, by county, currently provided to beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine and persons in the international protection process, respectively, disaggregated by hotels or accommodation providers that were commercially active and commercially inactive. [8476/24]

International Protection

Pearse Doherty

253. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of hotel beds, by county, currently provided to beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine and persons in the international protection process, disaggregated by hotels or accommodation providers that were commercially active and commercially inactive prior to the State taking out contracts with respect to those beds. [8477/24]

International Protection

Pearse Doherty

254. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of beds and contracts, referenced above, for which contracts expire within the next six and 12 months, respectively. [8478/24]

Disability Services

Seán Canney

255. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when supports will be put in place for a child (details supplied). [8485/24]

Family Resource Centres

Brendan Smith

256. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the proposals to provide a new service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8491/24]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Niall Collins

257. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can help a community project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8500/24]

Disability Services

Éamon Ó Cuív

258. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether it is intended to provide extra funding to the HSE in Galway city and county to provide for extra respite services for young people and their parents who have serious intellectual disabilities or are autistic, or both, and where a clear need for these services has been identified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8506/24]

Passport Services

Peadar Tóibín

259. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of workers who have been moved from the location of work from the Tallaght passport office to accommodate asylum seekers. [8508/24]

Asylum Seekers

Peadar Tóibín

260. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the nature of accommodation for asylum seekers, Ukrainians and residents in direct provision in Ireland in terms of previous usage, hospitality, nursing homes, State building and so on. [8509/24]

Asylum Seekers

Peadar Tóibín

261. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what research is undertaken in relation to the cost to tourism of the use of hotels, guest houses, or bed and breakfasts to accommodate asylum seekers, Ukrainians and residents in direct provision for each of the past five years. [8510/24]

Asylum Seekers

Peadar Tóibín

262. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average rate being paid to accommodate asylum seekers, Ukrainians and residents in direct provision in hospitality and separately in other accommodation venues in Ireland currently; the highest rate being paid in each of these location types; and the total spend to accommodate asylum seekers in Ireland for each of the past five years. [8511/24]

Disability Services

Seán Canney

263. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on disability services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8567/24]

Direct Provision System

Eoin Ó Broin

264. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department started to write to people with status or leave to remain in direct provision centres giving them dates by which they would have to leave the direct provision centre or be moved to another centre; the number of such letters issued to date; the criteria for issuing such letters; the rationale for this policy; the number of people who have been moved on foot of these letters; and a breakdown of these moves, including information on, from where; and the location to which they have been moved. [8618/24]

Disability Services

Brendan Smith

131. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a respite centre for adults will be provided in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8188/24]

Disability Services

Brendan Smith

132. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a respite centre for children will be provided in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8189/24]

Disability Services

Brendan Smith

133. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a respite centre for adults will be provided in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8190/24]

Disability Services

Brendan Smith

134. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a respite centre for children will be provided in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8191/24]

Library Services

Carol Nolan

135. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that the lift in the recently opened library in Portlaoise is not suitable for most wheelchair users; if he is also aware that the chief executive officer of Laois County Council has effectively stated that no further consideration is to be given to this serious oversight; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8192/24]

International Protection

Peter Burke

136. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will advise on a case (details supplied). [8268/24]

International Protection

Ged Nash

137. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide information on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8362/24]

International Protection

Ged Nash

138. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will explore in full a proposal to do a technical study of the D Hotel in Drogheda to establish if the facility can be operated as a dual function hotel accommodating both tourists and international protection applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8365/24]

Home Care Packages

Joe Flaherty

467. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will include functional neurological disorders in the home care support criteria nationwide (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7700/24]

Health Services

Claire Kerrane

468. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when full local community-based neurorehabilitation teams will be in place in CHO2, as committed to be delivered in 2023; when recruitment will begin to put these teams in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7767/24]

Disability Services

Eoin Ó Broin

469. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many courses (details supplied) will run in CHO7 in 2024; and the dates on which they will commence. [8092/24]

Disability Services

Patrick Costello

470. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the imminent risk of closure of WALK’s residential services due to a shortfall in funding from the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7415/24]

Mother and Baby Homes

Darren O'Rourke

471. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the enhanced medical card will be issued regarding the redress scheme proposed for mother and baby home survivors; the eligibility criteria that will apply; the treatments and services it will cover; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7424/24]

Disabilities Assessments

Michael Healy-Rae

472. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an ASD assessment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7474/24]

Disability Services

David Cullinane

473. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on disability service waiting lists for children’s disability networks teams, by CHO/CDNT for each month to date 2019-2024, inclusive, in tabular form; including the average length of wait; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7475/24]

Disability Services

David Cullinane

474. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people on disability service waiting lists for each service type, excluding children’s disability network teams, for each month to date 2019-2024, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7476/24]

Disabilities Assessments

David Cullinane

475. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on waiting lists for an assessment of need for each month to date 2019-2024, inclusive, in tabular form; the number overdue for completion; and the average length of wait. [7477/24]

Disabilities Assessments

Denis Naughten

476. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child (details supplied); will receive an appointment for assessment; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7482/24]