Parliamentary questions

Local Authorities

Pauline Tully

399. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if local authorities have a job placement scheme for disabled people; and if not, if he has plans to introduce a job placement scheme in local authorities for disabled people. [53014/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

460. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the adequacy of his Department’s consultation in relation to the national disability strategy. [52945/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

465. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 35 of 7 November 2023, if the derogation from the HSE recruitment freeze for organisations delivering disability services extends to the recruitment of administrative staff. [53015/23]

Medicinal Products

Pauline Tully

479. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the reason for the shortage of the medicine tyvense; and the actions he is taking to ensure an adequate supply of tyvense. [52966/23]

Medicinal Products

Pauline Tully

485. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the reason for the shortage of the medicine tyvense; and the steps he is taking to ensure an adequate supply of tyvense. [53016/23]

Passport Services

Pauline Tully

106. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount collected in passport fees during the months of October and September 2023; if he will provide figures for the same period in 2022 and 2021, in tabular form. [52409/23]

Wind Energy Generation

Pauline Tully

110. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if a wind farm (details supplied) operates a community benefit fund. [51864/23]

EU Funding

Pauline Tully

178. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Transport the capital works projects under the remit of his Department that have received EU funding in 2022 and to-date in 2023; and the EU funding received per project in each of the years in question, in tabular form. [52401/23]

Departmental Meetings

Pauline Tully

204. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Finance if he has plans to have a bilateral meeting with a person (details supplied). [52402/23]

Departmental Staff

Pauline Tully

225. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the actions he will take to resolve the situation where 30 staff members in the Cavan Social Protection office are to lose the use of car parking facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52388/23]

School Facilities

Pauline Tully

275. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education if a school (details supplied) has been approved funding under the summer works scheme to erect a boundary fence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52243/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

288. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education the actions she has taken or if he has plans to provide additional funding to organisations that provide equine therapy and assistance dogs to scale-up service provision across the country; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure. [52441/23]

School Funding

Pauline Tully

294. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education the capital funding her Department has provided to each national school in County Cavan in 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form. [52539/23]

Departmental Reports

Pauline Tully

388. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of external consultant reports commissioned by her Department in 2022 and to-date in 2023; the companies involved; and the title and publication date by report, in tabular form. [52403/23]

An Garda Síochána

Pauline Tully

421. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Justice the number of family liaison officer courses held for gardaí within Cavan-Monaghan division in 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form; and the duration of this course. [52404/23]

Childcare Services

Pauline Tully

468. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is any capital funding available to private childcare facilities who need to relocate due to expansion of their service. [51814/23]

Ukraine War

Pauline Tully

474. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay in offering a contract for accommodation offered to his Department for Ukrainian people fleeing the war (details supplied). [51922/23]

Nursing Homes

Pauline Tully

475. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in view of the Ombudsman report Wasted Lives, the number of disabled people under the age of 65 years that remain in a nursing home and who are deemed not appropriately placed. [51928/23]

Departmental Data

Pauline Tully

476. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated number of residential places for disabled people that will be needed over the next 5, 10, 15 and 20 years, in tabular form. [51929/23]

Departmental Data

Pauline Tully

477. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the residential places for disabled people that were delivered in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and the residential places for disabled people that were allocated in Budget 2024. [51930/23]

Departmental Data

Pauline Tully

478. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth : the current unmet need in residential places for disabled people. [51931/23]

Departmental Data

Pauline Tully

479. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated number of respite places for disabled people that will be needed over the next 5, 10, 15 and 20 years, in tabular form. [51932/23]

Departmental Data

Pauline Tully

480. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current unmet need in respite for disabled people. [51933/23]

Departmental Data

Pauline Tully

481. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the respite places that were delivered in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and the respite places that were allocated in Budget 2024. [51934/23]

Departmental Data

Pauline Tully

482. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people currently working as homecare assistants in both the public and private sector, in tabular form; and the estimated number of people needed to fully staff the homecare sector in both the public and private sector, in tabular form. [51935/23]

Departmental Data

Pauline Tully

483. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people currently assessed as in need of homecare who have not been allocated hours due to a shortage of staff. [51936/23]

Departmental Strategies

Pauline Tully

484. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the Autism Innovation Strategy; the timeframe for the publication of the Autism Innovation Strategy; and if he has plans to establish a committee or monitoring group featuring autistic people to participate in monitoring the Autism Innovation Strategy. [51937/23]

Departmental Strategies

Pauline Tully

485. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated final cost of publishing the Autism Innovation Strategy. [51938/23]

Departmental Strategies

Pauline Tully

486. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has plans to initiate a national autism acceptance campaign to promote the participation of autistic people in all areas of social and cultural life; and the estimated cost of initiating a national autism acceptance campaign. [51939/23]

Departmental Data

Pauline Tully

487. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has plans to collect disaggregated data for the purposes of forward-planning for the autistic community; if so, if his Department will consult with the autistic community and their families to establish how best to implement this plan; and the estimated cost of collecting this data. [51940/23]

Departmental Functions

Pauline Tully

488. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has any plans to establish a dedicated cross-departmental unit in his Department to facilitate a whole-of-government approach to autism and to embed joined-up cross-departmental services; and the estimated cost of establishing a dedicated cross-departmental unit in his Department. [51941/23]

Rights of People with Disabilities

Pauline Tully

489. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that the optional protocol of the UNCRPD has not yet been ratified; and the timeframe for the ratification of the optional protocol of the UNCRPD. [51942/23]

Departmental Policies

Pauline Tully

490. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if all Government Departments have a dedicated autism policy in place; and which Departments have developed a policy and which have not, in tabular form. [51943/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

491. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what actions he has taken to address the staffing issues in disability services, including the recruitment and retention of staff. [51944/23]

Departmental Data

Pauline Tully

492. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of establishing a one-stop-shop where autistic people and their families and carers can receive information and link in with services that they require. [51945/23]

Ukraine War

Pauline Tully

493. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay in offering a contract to an organisation (details supplied) for accommodation offered to his Department for Ukrainian people fleeing the war [51948/23]

Departmental Budgets

Pauline Tully

518. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost to implement a 12.5% increase across the board for youth funding schemes. [52410/23]

Care Services

Pauline Tully

519. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications received to date in 2023 for respite care in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and the number of persons on a waiting list to get respite care service in the counties, in tabular form. [52411/23]

Care Services

Pauline Tully

520. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications received to date in 2023 for respite care; and the number of persons on a waiting list to get respite care service. [52412/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

522. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to establish a single-entry point to children’s disability services and child and adolescent mental health services for autistic and disabled children to ensure that children are no longer passed between services. [52423/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

523. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to liaise with third-level institutions to develop work placement schemes to attract staff to disability services. [52424/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

524. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to initiate a campaign in secondary schools targeting leaving certificate students to promote careers in disability services. [52425/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

525. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to engage with the relevant professional bodies representing speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, psychologists and nurses to inform a long-term strategy to address the staffing issues in disability services. [52426/23]

Disabilities Assessments

Pauline Tully

526. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to rebalance the distribution of resources between staff working on assessments of need and staff implementing therapeutic supports. [52427/23]

Wage-setting Mechanisms

Pauline Tully

527. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to resolve pay parity issues for organisations that provide services under section 39 of the Health Act 2004; and the estimated cost of achieving pay parity issues for organisations that provide services under section 39 of the Health Act 2004. [52428/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

528. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to attract staff in disciplines relevant to disability services who have the right to work in Ireland to return by subsidising travel costs to return to Ireland; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure. [52429/23]

Departmental Funding

Pauline Tully

529. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to recognise the work of community groups that support autistic people by establishing a distinct funding stream to develop their work and to facilitate the establishment of new autism community groups across the country; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure. [52430/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

530. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to develop opportunities for career progression within public disability services for professionals in areas such as occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, physiotherapy or psychology; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure. [52431/23]

Health Services Staff

Pauline Tully

531. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to incentivise working within the public health sector to ensure that fewer professionals leave Ireland and that staff do not feel compelled to supplement their income by working in the private sector; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure. [52432/23]

Health Services Staff

Pauline Tully

532. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to ensure that public sector health workers are satisfied to work exclusively within the public health sector; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure. [52433/23]

Health Services Staff

Pauline Tully

533. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to roll out suitable autism training for all public health staff to ensure that they can engage with and meet the needs of the autistic community; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure. [52434/23]

Departmental Policies

Pauline Tully

534. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to develop clinical guidelines, along the lines of those developed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in the United Kingdom, for undertaking an autism assessment and ensure that they are adhered to by professionals within the public health sector and the private health sector. [52435/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

535. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken to liaise with the Department of Education to adopt an approach which integrates the school inclusion model and the children’s disability network team model to ensure that in-school therapies are available along with community-based services for autistic people; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure. [52436/23]

Departmental Policies

Pauline Tully

536. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken or if he has plans to develop and enforce guidelines to ensure that interventions provided to autistic people and disabled people are evidence-based and rights-based. [52437/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

537. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken or if he has plans to provide adequate financial supports to families who access assessments and supports privately due to their unavailability in the public health system until such time as vacant positions within CDNTs have been filled; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure. [52438/23]

Care Services

Pauline Tully

538. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken or if he has plans to increase the capacity within respite care across all community health organisations; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure. [52439/23]

Health Services

Pauline Tully

636. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the additional funding provided for mental health services in Budget 2023 and Budget 2024, broken down by ELS and 'new measure', in tabular form; and to provide a detailed breakdown of the status of each of the measures announced. [52405/23]

Mental Health Services

Pauline Tully

637. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE child psychologists in CHO1 based in Cavan and Monaghan in 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form. [52406/23]

Health Services

Pauline Tully

638. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the number of people availing of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) via the public system since the programme was established, by clinic and year, in tabular form. [52407/23]

Departmental Data

Pauline Tully

639. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the number of people who died from sepsis within Ireland in 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form. [52408/23]

Work Permits

Pauline Tully

27. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the report from the Interdepartmental Group on Economic Migration Policy regarding the review of the occupational lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51567/23]

Primary Medical Certificates

Pauline Tully

99. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Finance to provide an update on the progress made to date to convene a new Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeals; the actions he has taken to clear the backlog of 1,079 appeals outstanding, as of end-August 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51565/23]

Renewable Energy Generation

Pauline Tully

160. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if grants are available to install solar panels and wind turbines in domestic houses; to detail the criteria applied to these grants; and the timeframe within which it is expected these grants will remain in place. [51684/23]

Local Authorities

Pauline Tully

231. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage with whom responsibility rests for the replacement of broken windows on a local authority-owned property which occurred due to antisocial behaviour that was not connected to the tenant of the property. [51683/23]

Health Services

Pauline Tully

287. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the number of posts removed from profile as a result of memorandums (details supplied), by grade, for Cavan General Hospital; the number of head count posts and the WTE to which these relate; the number that were new posts; the number that were replacement posts or vacant posts; and the number that were related to absence or leave cover, in tabular form. [51590/23]

Health Services

Pauline Tully

288. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the number of posts removed from profile as a result of memorandums (details supplied), by grade, for community healthcare organisation 1 or CHO1, in tabular form; the number of head count posts and the WTE to which these relate; the number which were new posts; the number which were replacement posts or vacant posts; and the number which were related to absence or leave cover. [51591/23]

Health Services Staff

Pauline Tully

289. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the number of job offers which have been withdrawn as a result of memorandums (details supplied), by grade, for Cavan General Hospital, in tabular form; the number of head count posts; and the WTE to which these relate. [51592/23]

Health Services Staff

Pauline Tully

290. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the number of job offers that have been withdrawn as a result of memorandums (details supplied), by grade, for CHO1; the number of head count posts; and the WTE to which these relate, in tabular form. [51593/23]

International Protection

Pauline Tully

421. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a unit (details supplied) is to be used to accommodate international protection applicants; and if this decision has not been made, the timeframe for it to be made. [50556/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

430. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who have been reassessed for autism spectrum disorder under a children's disability network team in the past year; the primary reason for reassessing children with an ASD diagnosis; the number of children who had their ASD diagnosis removed in the past year after reassessment; if there are any specific criteria or guidelines that CDNT's follow when removing an ASD diagnosis; the reason for CDNT's refusing to acknowledge or offer a profile of pathological demand avoidance as part of an ASD assessment; if all children who have a single psychological only assessment and not a full multidisciplinary team report will be reassessed; the options open to a family, if the validity of previous professional assessments is questioned and subsequently overturned; and the person or body that will be held accountable if a child is misdiagnosed. [50734/23]

Fuel Sales

Pauline Tully

21. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the actions his Department are taking to protect fuel merchants from those who are trading in smoky fuel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50275/23]

Northern Ireland

Pauline Tully

59. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 144 of 23 May 2023, and in light of the British government's Legacy Bill receiving royal assent and entering into law on 18 September, if the Government will now proceed with lodging an interstate case against the British government with the European Court of Human Rights within the four-month time period this case must be lodged. [41888/23]

Departmental Strategies

Pauline Tully

35. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development what considerations she gave to the recommendations contained in the National Disability Authority submission on her Department's Statement of Strategy 2023-2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49694/23]

School Staff

Pauline Tully

186. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 355 of 16 May 2023, if her Department has met with the teacher union to discuss the report proposing the introduction of a teacher relocation scheme; and the actions she has taken to progress this important issue. [49342/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

462. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in relation to the response from a Topical Issue on disability on 17 October 2023 (details supplied), if the €56 million unspent referenced within the disability budget has been repurposed; if so, to what has this funding been repurposed; and if any of this funding has been repurposed to the Children's disability service grant fund. [49810/23]

Health Services Staff

Pauline Tully

507. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the reason that a team (details supplied) has been excluded from the Building Momentum pay increases, cost-of-living pay increases, and the reduction in the working week for nurses to 37.5 hours; the action he is taking to ensure Caredoc nurses receive equal terms and conditions to that of HSE and Section 38 staff; and the reason these workers were also not eligible for the pandemic bonus payment, although they were fully operational throughout this period. [49458/23]

Disease Management

Pauline Tully

19. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health if he will consider providing a funded bandage scheme for those battling with epidermolysis bullosa; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49084/23]

Medical Cards

Pauline Tully

27. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health if he will review the health services that are covered by the medical card, with a view to including such costs as signed letters from a GP or nurse and blood tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49085/23]

Housing Policy

Pauline Tully

96. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider disregarding the working family payment as means for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49083/23]

Housing Schemes

Pauline Tully

154. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will change the conditions of the vacant property refurbishment grant to extend the time a person has to complete the works once one’s application has been approved from 13 months to 24 months and allow for a drawdown of the grant in stages over the course of the build; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49082/23]

Human Rights

Pauline Tully

274. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Justice her plans to establish a Statutory Inquiry, compliant with international human rights standards, into the arrest, detention, interrogation, prosecution and conviction of persons (details supplied) following the Sallins train robbery in 1976, and encompassing their treatment by the Irish State since, as called for by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL). [49109/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

284. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth which Childrens Disability Network Teams do not have staff co-located in one setting. [49092/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

285. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeframe for the delivery of the Disability Regional Enhanced Supports and Services (DRESS). [49093/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

286. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will share with this Deputy the revised guidance for Individual Family Support Plans and Guidance for CDNTs. [49094/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

287. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a confined senior grade competition has been finalised within Childrens Disability Network Teams; the number of senior grade posts that have been filled to date from this competition; and the overall number of senior grade posts it is intended to fill from this competition. [49095/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

288. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of new clinical psychology trainee placement posts that have been established in Childrens Disability Network Teams in 2023. [49096/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

289. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of student placements in each Childrens Disability Network Team in 2022 and 2023;and the estimated number of student placements in each Childrens Disability Network Team for 2024, in tabular form. [49097/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

290. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a Therapy Assistant Programme has been established within Childrens Disability Network Teams. [49098/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

291. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of administrative staff working in each Childrens Disability Network Team in 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [49099/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

292. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if each CHO has included a bespoke Staff Retention Plan within their Service Improvement Plan; and if he will provide a link to each of these plans. [49100/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

293. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a webinar has been delivered to each Childrens Disability Network Manager on establishing a Family Representative Group; and if not, which CDNM's have not yet had this delivered. [49102/23]

Further and Higher Education

Pauline Tully

334. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of FETAC Therapy Assistant Grade Programmes that were offered in 2022 and 2023; the number of FETAC Therapy Assistant Grade Programme places that were filled by students in 2022 and 2023; and the number of FETAC Therapy Assistant Grade graduates in 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [49101/23]

Water Services

Pauline Tully

71. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason people who are building a one-off house this year and receive their water from a group water scheme will not have their fee waived under the temporary development contribution waiver arrangement; if he has plans to include people on group water schemes in the temporary development contribution waiver arrangement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49081/23]

Departmental Funding

Pauline Tully

94. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason an organisation (details supplied) was unsuccessful in its funding application to the 2023 LGBTI+ community services funding call scheme A; and if he will reconsider this decision. [48879/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

95. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total funding allocated for existing levels of service (ELS) in disability services in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, by the areas it was allocated to each year, in tabular form. [48886/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

109. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health if the home support authorisation scheme covers homecare for disabled people; the funding that providers are paid under this scheme for disability packages; and the funding that providers are paid under this scheme for older persons packages. [48869/23]

Home Care Packages

Pauline Tully

111. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the actions he is taking to address the current homecare situation; for an update on the progress of the statutory homecare scheme; and if the statutory homecare scheme will cater for disabled people. [48875/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

35. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail the effect the HSE recruitment freeze will have on delivering disability services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48528/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

54. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he is taking to establish a national DPRO register to ensure all consultations on matters regarding disability are carried out in accordance with general comment 7 of the UNCRPD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48529/23]

Departmental Schemes

Pauline Tully

142. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications what additional funding was allocated to the warmer homes scheme in Budget 2024; and the estimated time this additional funding will shorten the current waiting list for the scheme. [47371/23]