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Please note, the below PQs are filed chronologically, with the most recent at the bottom of the list

GOVERNMENT POLICY & FINANCES

GOVERNMENT POLICY AND FINANCES

Government Policy and Funding

• Policies for Funding and Intellectual Disability
• Disability Funding 2008

• Order of Business: Allocation of Disability Funding
• Funding
• Adjournment Debate: Disability Funding

• Motion: National Development Plan: Cuts
• Motion: National Development Plan – disability services in Galway
• Motion: National Development Plan
• Leaders’ Questions: Government spending cutbacks
• Fine Gael Motion: Health Services
• 2008 Funding for Disability Sector
• Unspent funds in Health budget
• Budget of state agencies
• Financial Resolutions - John Moloney
• Budget Cuts
• Multi-Annual Funding
• Oral Questions: Multi-Annual Investment Programme
• €38 million diverted from Disability Budget
• Funding for 2009
• Multi-Annual Investment Programme
• €70 million redirected from disability sector
• €70 million redirected from disability sector
• Breakdown of funding to Health since 2000
• Budget 2009
• €17 million cut to disability sector in 2008
• Recapitalisation of Banks Debate
• Recapitalisation of Banks Debate
• Children with special needs more disadvantaged in Budget
• Ringfence disability funding
• Multi-annual investment programme 2005-2009
• All Ireland Centre for Autism, County Armagh
• €8.5 million in emergency placements funding for disability sector
• Funding for Disability in 2009
• Consultants Reports commissioned by Department of Health in 2008
• Policy measures to help parents provide financially for children with disabilities when their parents die
• Funding in Laois/Offaly for people with a disability
• Funding to disability services from National Lottery
• Allocation of funding under the Multi-Annual Investment Programme
• Amount allocated and expended each year under the multi-annual investment programme
• Status of Health Proposals in the Board Snip Report
• Suitability of new children’s hospital for children with disabilities
• Affect of four year Budget plan on people with disabilities
• Ombudsman for persons with disabilities
• Action to ensure cuts don’t affect frontline services
• Steps taken to protect frontline services
• HSE meeting funding shortfall of Jack and Jill Foundation
• Funding shortfall at Jack and Jill Foundation
• Records kept on asylum seekers with disabilities
• Dormant Accounts Fund
• Jack and Jill Foundation
• 2001 Task Force on Autism
• Entitlement to minimum standard of health under UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Funding to Jack and Jill Foundation

HSE

• Leaders Questions: HSE finances
• Vacant posts within HSE

• Leader’s Questions: HSE funding
• HSE Budget 2008
• HSE Recruitment Embargo
• Voluntary Redundancy in HSE
• Health Service Staff

• HSE Personnel Levels
• Policy Control over HSE
• Patient Numbers
• Level of Personnel in Health Services

• Adjournment Debate: Health Services
• MRSA

• HSE cost-cutting
• Review of HSE
• Health Care Regions
• Education of HSE staff in congenital disabilities such as spina bifida and hydrocephalus
• Numbers of HSE and disability service staff
• Challenges facing the Health Services: Statements
• Moratorium on hiring in HSE
• Development posts in disability sector
• New HSE structure
• Primary Care Teams
• Revised programme for government and primary care teams
• Number of clients who are currently outside the jurisdiction from each HSE area
• Priority Questions: Organisation of the HSE
• Status of Health Proposals in the Board Snip Report
• HSE staff who accepted voluntary redundancy package
• HSE meeting funding shortfall of Jack and Jill Foundation

Reports & Reviews

• National Economic and Social Forum Report regarding social inclusion
• Review of Autism Services
• Reports commissioned by Department of Health
• National review of autism services
• Cost of study on rehabilitative training services
• National Review of Autism Services
• Reports commissioned by Department of Health
• National review of autism services
• Reports and Task Forces set up Minister for Health
• External consultants working for Dept. of Health
• Most recent policy specifically for people with an intellectual disability
• Status of Health Proposals in the Board Snip Report
• National Review of Autism Services
• Reviews of autism Spectrum Disorders
• Reports and reviews commissioned by Dept. Health and Children in 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010

Specific Syndromes

• Adults and Aspergers
• Funding for People with Autism
• Recognition of autism
• Support services for children with autism

Statistics

• Intellectual Disability Database and Autism

• Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination
• Demographic information on special needs
• Disability Database
• Audit of National Intellectual Disability Database
• Accuracy of National Intellectual Disability Database
• CSO and Autism
• People with Asperger’s and autism on National Intellectual Disability Database
• Representation of autism in 2011 census
• Inclusion of autism data in census
• Autism category on census
• If census category on autism would assist providing for educational needs for children with autism
• Number of people with Autism nationally
• Inclusion of a question on autism in the next census
• Question on Autism in Census
• Census and Autism
• Priority Questions: Include incidence of Autism on 2011 Census
• Merging the national intellectual disability database and the national physical and sensory disability database
• UN Washington City Group on Disability Statistics
• Inclusion of Autism question in Census
• Population health directorate
• Priority Questions: Census
• Statistics on people with autism

Funding to Disability Services

• Overall Public Expenditure on Disability Services
• Allocation of Development Funding for Intellectual Disability Services
• Budget 2008 funding for residential and day services
• Release for Funding for Service provision
• Funding for development of services in Ballinasloe
• Adjournment Debate: St. Michael’s House
• Order of Business: St. Michael’s House
• Release of Funding to Services

• Adjournment Debate: Services for People with Disabilities
• Funding for Disability Services in South Tipperary
• Motion: National Development Plan – disability services in Galway
• Shortfall in Funding for Disability Services
• Disability Funding Allocation and Mid-West
• Funding for transfer for people with Autism and ASD from rehabilitative training into an ASD placement
• Commitment to provide more frontline staff
• Funding for new adult training places and day places
• Commitment to increase professionals working to develop new services for people with disabilities
• Disability Services in Ballinasloe
• Dispersal of Development Funding
• Multi-Annual Investment Programme for Disability Services
• Adjournment Debate: funding for Day care places for nine school leavers in Lisnagry
• Funds Diverted Away from Disability Services
• Cut in Voluntary Services Funding
• Funding for Disability Services
• Funding and number of residential places provided
• Budget Overruns in Disability Services
• Administration costs in Government funded services
• Funding for the autism unit in Clogherinkoe/Derriiturn
• Funding provided directly to groups providing services
• Funding for service providers in Cork
• Ensuring disability funding is spent on disability services
• Funding for Training Programmes in Prosper Fingal
• Adjournment Debate: Funding to Daughters of Charity, Limerick
• Adjournment Debate: Funding for Prosper Fingal
• School leavers at Prosper Fingal
• €8.5 million in emergency placements funding for disability sector
• Audit of special needs services
• Audit of special needs services
• Funding for Disability Services in Westmeath
• School-Leavers and further training places
• Commitment to frontline staff
• Funding for disability services in South Tipperary
• Adjournment Debate: School leavers in Tralee
• Adjournment Debate: Cuts to disability services (Walkinstown Association)
• Cost per week of residential and day services
• Day service places in South Dublin
• Funding in Laois/Offaly for people with a disability
• Further development available to persons with intellectual disability or autism exiting rehabilitative training programmes
• Priority given to school leavers with an intellectual disability or autism for funding over people exiting rehabilitative training programmes
• People leaving Training Programme
• Grants to health agencies and similar organisations provided through voted expenditure by Department of Health
• Funding to disability services from National Lottery
• Grants to National Learning Network
• Funding to disability services in 2010
• Percentage of HSE disability fund used to purchase services from private for profit disability organisations
• Organisations in South receiving funding to provide services to children with a disability
• Disability service providers in West and respite
• Funding decrease to Jack and Jill Foundation
• Adjournment Debate: Cuts to services in Limerick
• Adjournment Debate: Closures at Aras Attracta, Swinford
• Funding provided to disability services
• Withdrawal of funding to a service in Limerick
• Adjournment Debate: Cutbacks at St. Vincent, Navan Rd, Dublin
• Adjournment Debate: Funding for the Brothers of Charity Services in Limerick
• Reduction in funding for service in Dublin 7
• Cuts to organisation in Limerick
• Leaders Questions: Spending on Disability Services
• Leaders’ Questions: Funding to services for people with a disability
• Adjournment Debate: Funding to services for people with  disability
• Order of Business: Cuts affecting people with a disability

• Funding cutbacks to a Daughters of Charity school in Co. Tipperary
• Funding to HSE NELouth/Meath/ Cavan/Monaghan /Meath/Cavan/ Monaghan area for disability services for 2009 and to date in 2010
• Leaders Questions: cuts to services people receive
• Cuts to KARE
• Funding to Ard Cuain, Dublin
• Disability Organisations receiving funding from Dept. of Health
• Disability Organisations receiving funding from HSE
• Budget allocation for disability
• State funding to Jack and Jill Foundation
• Disability Services
• Funding shortfall to disability services
• Funding to disability sector
• Funding for Jack & Jill
• Action to ensure cuts don’t affect frontline services
• Steps taken to protect frontline services
• HSE meeting funding shortfall of Jack and Jill Foundation
• Funding shortfall at Jack and Jill Foundation
• Funding for training for persons with intellectual disabilities in Dublin South-West and Dublin West

Social Inclusion and Poverty

• Improve services for marginalized groups
• Groups at risk of poverty
• Leaders Questions: Social Policy Unit of the Department of the Taoiseach

Budget

• Protection of people with an intellectual disability in Budget 2010
• Protecting people with an intellectual disability in Budget 2010
• Social Welfare and Pensions Bill: Cuts to Social Welfare in Budget 2010
• Social Welfare Bill: Budget 2010
• Private Members’ Business: Social Welfare Cuts - Motion
• Leaders’ Questions: Social Welfare Cuts in Budget 2010
• Affect of four year Budget plan on people with disabilities
• Financial Resolution: Disability provisions in Budget 2011
• Measures taken in Budget 2011 to tackle discrimination and safeguard equality

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PROGRAMME FOR GOVERNMENT

Medical Cards

• Medical Card limit for Parents of Children with an intellectual disability
• Medical Cards
• Medical Cards and Disability Allowance
• People with Disabilities working and retaining Medical Cards
• Changes in Medical Card Thresholds and Eligibility
• Full Medical Card on Diagnosis to Children with an Intellectual Disability
• Medical card for children under 18
• Income Limit for Medical Cards
• Promise for medical cards for children with an intellectual disability
• Revised programme for Government and income eligibility limits for medical cards for children with intellectual disabilities

Programme for Government 2011

• Motion: Appointment of Ministers and Ministers of State
• Motion: Programme for Government:
• Motion: Programme for Government:
• Motion: Programme for Government:
• Motion: Programme for Government:

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NATIONAL DISABILITY STRATEGY

Strategy

• National Disability Strategy
• Reports on National Disability Strategy
• Timeframe for Disability Strategy
• National Disability Strategy
• Public Servants and National Disability Strategy
• National Disability Strategy
• Expenditure on Disability Strategy
• Expenditure on Disability Strategy
• National Disability Strategy strategic plan
• Multi-Annual Investment Programme under the National Disability Strategy
• Budget for the Centre of Excellence in Universal Design
• Strategy on National Disability Strategy
• Document outlining vision of National Disability Strategy
• Meetings of National Disability Strategy Stakeholder Monitoring Group
• National Disability Strategy Stakeholder Monitoring Group
• Strategic document outlining the vision, mission and objectives of the National Disability Strategy
• Priority Question: Review and Revise the National Disability Strategy
• Responsibility and expenditure of Dept. of Justice on Disability Strategy
• Senior Officials Group on Disability
• Impact of postponing National Disability Strategy on ratifying the UN Convention
• Part 2 of Disability Act & Assessment of Need
• Six month delay in publishing the National Disability Strategy recession implementation plan
• Order of Business: Implementation of Disability Strategy
• High Level Groups in Dept. Taoiseach
• Implementation of Disability Strategy to date
• How €7.499 million allocated for the implementation of the National Disability Strategy is spent
• Order of Business: Disability Strategy
• National Disability Strategy
• Implementation of Disability Strategy

Sectoral Plans

• Sectoral Plans
• Department of Enterprise Spending on National Disability Strategy
• Transport spend on National Disability Strategy
• Social Welfare spend on National Disability Strategy
• Department of Environment spend on National Disability Strategy
• Department of Communications spend on National Disability Strategy
• Education spend on National Disability Strategy
• National Disability Strategy Allocation and Education
• National Disability Strategy Allocation and Health
• National Disability Strategy Allocation and Transport
• National Disability Strategy Allocation and Justice
• National Disability Strategy Allocation and Department of Environment
• National Disability Strategy Allocation and Department of communications
• Information Gathering Requirements of Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment under Disability Act Sectoral Plan
• Expenditure on Disability Strategy - Health
• Expenditure on Disability Strategy - Education
• Funds available under Investment Programme of National Disability Strategy - Finance
• Funds available under Investment Programme of National Disability Strategy - Enterprise
• Funds available under Investment Programme of National Disability Strategy - Health
• Funds available under Investment Programme of National Disability Strategy - Transport
• Funds available under Investment Programme of National Disability Strategy - Justice
• Funds available under Investment Programme of National Disability Strategy - Environment
• Funds available under Investment Programme of National Disability Strategy - Communications
• Sectoral plans for Disability Strategy - Education
• Sectoral Plan Review - Enterprise
• Sectoral Plan Review - Health
• Sectoral Plan Review – Transport
• Sectoral Plan Review - Environment
• Sectoral Plan Review - Enterprise
• Local Authorities Commitment under National Disability Strategy
• Second progress report on the Disability Act 2005 sectoral plan
• Department of Justice and Sectoral Plan under Disability Act
• Completion of Departmental Sectoral Plans
• Education Sectoral Plan under National Disability Strategy
• Reason Dept. Education and does not have a sectoral plan under Disability Act
• Monies available for improving disability access in Co. Donegal
• Accessible rooms in hotels
• Funding for local authorities to carry out accessibility audits and other actions associated with Disability Strategy

Disability Act

• Implementation of Disability Act
• Disability Act Review
• Elements of Disability Act relating to Dept. of Health not yet commenced
• Leader’s Questions: Disability Bill
• Adjournment Debate: Complaints under Disability Act
• Review of Disability Act
• Part 2 of Disability Act

National Disability Authority

• NDA as a member of IBEC
• Funding to National Disability Authority in the past three years
• Number employed by NDA
• Remuneration to board members of all State agencies
• Ombudsman for persons with disabilities
• Number of mobile telephones paid for by public bodies
• How €7.499 million allocated for the implementation of the National Disability Strategy is spent
• Payment for legal services at State Agencies
• Fees paid from NDA to IBEC

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DEPARTMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR DISABILITY ISSUES

Office of the Minister for Equality, Disability and Mental Health

• Oral Questions: Office for Disability & Mental Health

• Office for Disability & Mental Health
• Office for Disability and Mental Health
• Office for Disability and Mental Health
• Members of the Office for Disability and Mental Health
• Bord Snip recommendation on transferring disability functions to Office of Disability Minister
• Delegation of Ministerial Functions in Dept. of Health
• Powers to Ministers of State at Dept. Health
• Changes to Government Departments
• Responsibility of each Minister of State in his Department

Dept. of Justice

• Justice Minister’s responsibility for Disability issues
• Transfer disability functions to the Department of Health and Children
• Responsibility of Justice Minister for Disability Policy
• Changes to Government Departments

Dept. of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs

• Changes to Dept. of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
• Restructuring of Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
• Delegation of Ministerial functions in  Dept. of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
• Number of staff transferred to Dept. Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs
• State agencies in Dept. Community, Equality and Gaeltacht
• Amount spent by Dept. Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs on public relations
• Ombudsman for persons with disabilities
• Appointments made to State Bodies under Dept. Community
• Ministerial Responsibilities at Dept. Community, Equality & Gaeltacht Affairs
• Changes to Government Departments

Dept of Foreign Affairs

• Ireland Aid’s disability strategy
• Millennium Development Goals

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