958. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether consideration is being given to targeted tax measures for families with children, particularly school-age children, in light of the continuing pressure of childcare, housing and household costs. [26050/26]
803. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Transport if the National Transport Authority has assessed the feasibility of extending or diverting Route 363 (Dungarvan–Fermoy) to serve Clondulane, County Cork; whether a deviation of approximately 5–6 kilometres has been considered; his plans to review service provision in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26240/26]
802. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Transport the funding streams that are available to support the development of pedestrian and cycling infrastructure on national roads such as the N72; whether Cork County Council has submitted any proposals in respect of the Clondulane to Fermoy route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26239/26]
801. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Transport if any assessment has been undertaken of the N72 between Clondulane and Fermoy with regard to pedestrian and cyclist safety; whether this route is being considered for inclusion in the active travel programme administered by the National Transport Authority; if he will outline plans or funding allocations to improve safety for non-motorised road users on this section; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26238/26]
58. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the extent to which funding schemes administered by his Department are coordinated under a single strategic framework; the steps being taken to address fragmentation across multiple short-term funding streams; and whether consideration is being given to multi-annual funding models for community development. [23000/26]
43. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht whether his Department has evaluated the administrative burden placed on voluntary and community groups applying to multiple overlapping funding schemes; and if he will outline any plans to streamline application, reporting and compliance processes. [23003/26]
27. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht whether his Department has undertaken any comprehensive, national needs assessment of community infrastructure including community centres, youth facilities, sports and recreational spaces; if so, when this was last completed; and if he will publish the findings. [22999/26]
16. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the proportion of funding allocated by his Department that is provided on a multi-annual basis as opposed to once-off or competitive grant schemes; and if he will outline any plans to move towards longer-term, sustainable funding structures for community organisations. [23001/26]
5. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the measures in place to ensure equitable distribution of funding across regions, including areas experiencing rapid population growth; and whether any formal methodology is used to align funding allocations with demographic need. [23002/26]
288. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department intends to review the implementation of the revised assessment of need framework to ensure that no cohort of children is excluded from identification due to the streamlining of assessment processes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22599/26]
287. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the training or guidance is being provided to assessment officers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure that complex presentations, including masking and twice-exceptionality, are recognised under the revised model; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22598/26]
286. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if consideration has been given to the potential for increased reliance on private assessments arising from any restriction in public access to cognitive assessment and the implications this may have for equity of access; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22597/26]
285. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if, under the revised assessment of need framework, access to cognitive or psychological assessment remains available where there is evidence of significant intra-individual discrepancy, asynchronous development, or unexplained underachievement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22596/26]
284. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has conducted any impact assessment on how the revised assessment of need model may affect the identification of children whose needs are masked by high cognitive ability or compensatory functioning; the safeguards in place to prevent under-identification of such children, particularly in light of evidence that twice-exceptional children are already under-recognised within disability services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22595/26]
283. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the revised assessment of need framework limits or reduces access to cognitive assessment for children, including in cases where intellectual disability is not suspected; the way in which the revised framework ensures that children with uneven developmental profiles, including those who may be gifted or twice-exceptional will be appropriately identified within the system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22594/26]
88. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth the safeguards in place to prevent under-identification of children under the revised assessment of need framework, particularly in light of evidence that twice-exceptional children are already under-recognised within Irish education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22600/26]
983. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the effects of temporary rehabilitation remuneration on the pension entitlements of healthcare workers with long Covid who avail of it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22223/26]
728. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his plans to monitor the real-world implications of use of the child maintenance calculator to ensure it reflects the real cost of raising children; the role he intends the child maintenance calculator to play in judicial decision-making; if he plans for future iterations to include education, childcare, medical and disability related costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22201/26]
335. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Transport his plans to ensure only drivers who have successfully completed the approved wheelchair manual handling course be permitted to drive, operate, lease, or otherwise use a wheelchair accessible vehicle under the WAV licence scheme to ensure these vehicles are operated by drivers properly trained to assist wheelchair users safely and respectfully; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22184/26]
334. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Transport the criteria by which he ensures vehicles availing of the wheelchair accessible vehicle grant scheme are genuinely and to the greatest extent possible universally accessible to wheelchair users; if his attention has been drawn to a particular vehicle type (details supplied) whose rear-loading configuration severely limits accessibility; his plans to ensure that vehicles availing of the grant scheme genuinely meet the accessibility needs they are intended to serve; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22183/26]
5. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the most recent meeting of the coalition of the willing in support of Ukraine. [16305/26]
449. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health for an update on the establishment of a register for advance healthcare directives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21086/26]
2285. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the number of staff from his Department seconded from a firm in the private sector, per annum from 2022 to date in 2026; and the details of the company, in tabular form. [18635/26]
2284. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the number of staff from his Department seconded to a firm in the private sector, per annum from 2022 to date in 2026; and the details of the company, in tabular form. [18617/26]
2283. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the number of staff from his Department seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service, per annum from 2022 to date in 2026; and the details of the Department or agency, in tabular form. [18599/26]
2237. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of staff from his Department seconded from a firm in the private sector, per annum from 2022 to date in 2026; and the details of the company, in tabular form. [18630/26]
2236. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of staff from his Department seconded to a firm in the private sector, per annum from 2022 to date in 2026; and the details of the company, in tabular form. [18612/26]
2235. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of staff from his Department seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service, per annum from 2022 to date in 2026; and the details of the Department or agency, in tabular form. [18594/26]
2166. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of CAMHS-ID teams nationally currently operating without the full multidisciplinary complement recommended by the HSE; and the disciplines currently missing from those teams. [20422/26]
2165. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether additional CAMHS-ID teams are planned; the number of additional teams proposed; the health regions in which they will be located; and the timeline for their establishment. [20421/26]
2164. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has established a national workforce plan for CAMHS-ID services; and if so, the recommended multidisciplinary staffing complement per team and the current shortfall relative to that recommendation. [20420/26]
2163. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of referrals received by CAMHS-ID services nationally in each of the years 2023 to 2025; the number accepted for treatment; and the number currently awaiting assessment or treatment. [20419/26]
2162. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether each health region currently has access to a dedicated CAMHS-ID team; and if not, the arrangements in place for children with co-existing intellectual disability and mental health difficulties in those regions. [20418/26]
2161. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the length of time each currently vacant CAMHS-ID post has remained unfilled, by discipline and by health region. [20417/26]
2160. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the steps undertaken by the HSE during 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026 to recruit multidisciplinary staff to CAMHS-ID teams nationally, including recruitment campaigns, international recruitment efforts and any targeted initiatives to address vacancies. [20416/26]
2159. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the staffing complement within each CAMHS-ID team nationally; the number of whole-time equivalent staff currently in post in each discipline; and the number of vacancies currently existing in each team. [20415/26]
2158. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services for children with co-existing intellectual disability and mental health difficulties (CAMHS-ID) nationally; the location of each team; and the number of approved posts and the number of filled posts within each team, by discipline (details supplied), in tabular form. [20414/26]
2157. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health if the reporting relationship of the recently created role of director of psychology is to the director of health and social care professions or the regional executive officer in their local health region; and if they are proposed to be part of the regional directorate of health regions along with regional clinical director, the regional director of finance and similar management roles. [20413/26]
2001. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health if she is reviewing the requirement on families to maintain indefinite responsibility for the care of a dependent adult with impaired decision-making capacity; the affects of restrictions in their participation of formal decisions affecting that person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19913/26]
1924. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health if she will add PMDD to the newly launched HSE Education Programme for Endometriosis given that they affect the same cohort of women and girls; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19533/26]
1923. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the reason the proposed Primary Care Centre in Tullow is not included in the 2026 HSE Capital Plan; the current status of the project within the HSE capital approval process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19532/26]
1725. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of staff from her Department seconded from a firm in the private sector, per annum from 2022 to date in 2026; and the details of the company, in tabular form. [18631/26]
1724. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of staff from his Department seconded to a firm in the private sector, per annum from 2022 to date in 2026; and the details of the company, in tabular form. [18613/26]
1723. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of staff from her Department seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service, per annum from 2022 to date in 2026; and the details of the Department or agency, in tabular form. [18595/26]
1584. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the cost of residential disability services provided by for-profit companies for each of the years 2021 to 2025; and for a breakdown of costs for child and adult services separately, in tabular form. [19823/26]
1555. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding the implementation of the personalised budgets model for disabled people; to provide a timeline for the publication of the review of the personalised budgets pilot programme which was expected in 2025; her plans for expansion of the model arising from that review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19535/26]
1554. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 996 of 17 February 2026, the date a child (details supplied) can start speech and language therapy, SLT, as the previous reply in relation to this child did not give any date for SLT to commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19534/26]