Parliamentary questions

Beef Sector

Pauline Tully

49. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is concerned with the latest evaluation changes by an organisation (details supplied) which has greatly devalued some cattle breeds; if he will address this issue by requesting a rollback to the previous evaluation until full clarification is received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55819/23]

Departmental Funding

Pauline Tully

100. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he is taking to ensure that an organisation (details supplied) is adequately funded and prevent it from having to initiate closure procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55759/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

140. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the adequacy of engagements that occurred with disability organisations and disabled persons' representative organisations in relation to the national disability strategy and the Green Paper on Disability Reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55758/23]

Departmental Consultations

Pauline Tully

358. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 7 December 2023, the names of the disability stakeholders and disabled persons organisations that her Department engaged with prior to the launch of the green paper. [55956/23]

Social Welfare Benefits

Pauline Tully

153. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 701 of 7 November 2023, to detail the benefits available to people who have a disability; and to detail the number of people currently in receipt of each of these benefits. [55669/23]

School Facilities

Pauline Tully

326. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education the position regarding permission that was sought to proceed to tender stage by a school (details supplied) that has been approved since March 2022 to build a special educational needs base; and the timeframe for a decision on this matter. [55122/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

651. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of providing 100,000, 200,000 and 500,000 additional personal assistance hours for people with disabilities, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54533/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

652. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated capital cost of providing one, two and three additional respite centres for people with disabilities in each of the nine CHO areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54534/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

653. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the first and full year current costs of providing one, two and three additional respite centres for people with disabilities in each of the nine CHOs, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54535/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

654. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the effect demographic pressures are likely to have on respite services over the next five years and ten years, respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54536/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

655. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated capital cost of providing 100, 250 and 400 additional intensive support packages for children with disabilities who have high/complex support needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54537/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

656. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated first and full year current costs of providing 100, 250 and 400 additional intensive support packages for children with disabilities who have high/complex support needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54538/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

657. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the effect demographic pressures are likely to have on demand for intensive support packages for children with disabilities who have high/complex support needs over the next five and ten years, respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54539/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

658. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated capital cost of transferring 50, 100 and 200 people with disabilities, under the age of 65 years, out of a nursing home and into an assisted community home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54540/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

659. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the first and full year current cost of transferring 50, 100 and 200 people with disabilities, under the age of 65 years, out of a nursing home and into an assisted community home, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54541/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

660. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated first and full year current cost of transferring 100, 200 and 300 people with disabilities out of congregated settings and into an assisted community home, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54542/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

661. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated capital cost of providing 24, 36 and 48 additional planned residential places, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54544/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

662. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the first and full year current cost of providing 24, 36 and 48 additional planned residential places, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54545/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

663. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the effect demographic pressures are likely to have on demand for planned residential places over the next five and ten years respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54546/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

664. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated capital cost of providing one, two and three additional adult day service centres in each of the nine CHO areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54547/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

665. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated first and full year current costs of providing 740 additional adult day service places; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54548/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

666. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staffing posts required to fully staff children’s disability network teams; the number of these posts that have not yet been funded; the staffing costs involved in filling all posts that have not yet been funded; the effect demographic pressures are likely to have on the staffing needs of CDNTs over the next five and ten years, respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54549/23]

Housing Policy

Pauline Tully

46. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on whether it is equitable that additional measures approved under Housing for All to incentivise the activation of increased housing supply and help reduce housing construction costs does not include people in rural Ireland on group water schemes as it only refunds Uisce Éireann water and wastewater standard connection charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54169/23]

Rental Sector

Pauline Tully

74. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what actions he plans to take to constrain the exorbitant rise in private rental prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54168/23]

Parking Provision

Pauline Tully

120. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has been contact with the OPW in relation to the loss of car parking facilities by Social Protection staff in Cavan town; if alternative facilities are being considered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54159/23]

Departmental Consultations

Pauline Tully

121. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason there was no co-production and co-design involved between her Department and disabled persons representative organisations and disability organisations in relation to the production of the Green Paper on Disability Reform and the subsequent consultation process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54158/23]

Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge

Pauline Tully

58. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the actions she has taken to enable Foras na Gaeilge to reopen the scéim forbartha líonraí Gaeilge; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53614/23]

Tax Code

Pauline Tully

194. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Finance the reason VAT is charged on medicines for family pets; and if he has plans or will consider reducing or removing VAT on medicines for family pets. [53672/23]

School Funding

Pauline Tully

246. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 294 of 28 November 2023, to detail the amount of funding provided to each individual national school in County Cavan in each of the years referenced. [53436/23]

Disabilities Assessments

Pauline Tully

256. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education the actions she has taken, or if she has plans to initiate a review of the practice of principals and teachers filling in the educational section of the assessment of need form, taking into account the views of stakeholders and ensuring that the practice complies with the spirit of the Disability Act 2005. [53738/23]

Medical Aids and Appliances

Pauline Tully

544. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 25 of 1 June 2023, if he will provide an update on the review of the functioning of the existing managed services in respect of the supply and maintenance of wheelchairs; and if a new tender process has been put in place for managed services for medical equipment. [53442/23]

Health Services Staff

Pauline Tully

599. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health 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. [53751/23]

Health Services Staff

Pauline Tully

600. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health 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. [53752/23]

Health Services Staff

Pauline Tully

601. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health 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. [53753/23]

Health Services Staff

Pauline Tully

602. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health 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. [53754/23]

Driver Test

Pauline Tully

18. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Transport the actions he has taken to speed up driver testing in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52805/23]

Rights of People with Disabilities

Pauline Tully

33. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Transport what guidance was given to him from either the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth or the Minister of State with responsibility for disability regarding the implementation of the UNCRPD and consultation with DPRO's; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52806/23]

Special Educational Needs

Pauline Tully

89. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education if she has plans for the establishment of a special national school for pupils aged four to 18 years in County Monaghan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52846/23]

School Transport

Pauline Tully

109. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education to report on the review of the school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52845/23]

Middle East

Pauline Tully

166. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No.10 of 15 June 2023 where he stated that the Government will "[h]onour our commitment to recognise the State of Palestine [to] protect the integrity of Palestinian territory", if the Government will now honour its commitment considering that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has stated that Israel’s plan to double the settler population in the occupied Syrian Golan by 2027 was unprecedented, and that 700,000 Israeli settlers are living illegally in the occupied West Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50276/23]

Northern Ireland

Pauline Tully

222. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if, after receiving legal advice from the Attorney General, the Government will initiate an interstate case at the European Court of Human Rights to test the compatibility of the British Legacy Act with the European Convention on Human Rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52124/23]

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]