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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Work Supports (5 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I was very pleased to secure an additional €1 million in the Budget to support the Targeted Youth Employability Support Initiative (TYESI) in 2024. The aim of this important scheme is to engage and support harder to reach young people, aged from 15 to 24 years, who are not in employment, education, or training. The focused interventions are intended to provide community-based...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Work Supports (5 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The annual breakdown of the current funding allocation per budget line provided by the Department for youth organisations and services under the sectoral programme for children and young people within subhead B06-Youth Organisations and Services (part funded by the national lottery) is set out in the tables at the below link for 2014 to 2024.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Work Supports (5 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Youth workers and volunteers are central to the delivery of youth services to young people. The relationships which young people develop with their youth workers or volunteer leaders can be transformative to a young person's life. I have committed to developing a workforce development plan for the youth sector, to support the recruitment and retention of staff and volunteers in the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (5 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department provides funding to 21 Youth Information Centres (YICs) nationally. Their purpose is to provide young people with information on rights, opportunities, benefits, health, welfare and other matters. My Department has contracted independent research into the role, benefits, and best practice of state-funded youth information provision. This research will address a set of key...

Report of Joint Committee on Gender Equality: Motion (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I hope Deputy Cronin might extend an old cupán tae to me as well during the revolution, because I certainly would like to be a part of assisting it.

Report of Joint Committee on Gender Equality: Motion (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I want to begin by welcoming all present for our debate on the joint committee's report Unfinished Democracy: Achieving Gender Equality. As both Deputies have already described, the overarching goal of the report is to achieve gender equality within our society by means of a variety of targeted actions. That goal is also a key tenet of my Department's mission. This is outlined in our...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy speaks of a cooling-off period as if these are easy decisions that our Department is taking in a normal time. Again, we are responding to a humanitarian crisis and imminent homelessness. We have already seen that we are unable to provide accommodation for more than 1,000 male applicants as of today. We are close to being in that situation with families and female applicants as...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: We do not sign contracts without evidence of compliance with fire certification. On the final point, the Deputy spoke of 220 spaces that are available in Drogheda. Those are spaces that under Government decisions can only be used by beneficiaries of temporary protection by Ukrainians.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: With respect to the Deputy, that is true.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: They are not available for the use of international protection-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: They are not available for the use of international protection-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ------applicants.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: On the basis that they are within the refurbishment programme, they are only available to beneficiaries of temporary protection.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: That is true.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy and the other local TDs for their ongoing engagement on this matter. Ireland is now accommodating more than 100,000 people, between those fleeing the war in Ukraine and international protection applicants. Our accommodation system is under real pressure now. With all the limited accommodation capacity in the International Protection Accommodation Services, IPAS, system...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rights of the Child (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy. In January of last year. I led a delegation to the a hearing of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva. The committee welcomed the progress Ireland has made to respect children’s rights, including the Children First Act 2015 and other legislative and policy measures. That Act operates side-by-side with the non-statutory obligations provided for in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rights of the Child (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: That is very much central to the child care (amendment) Bill 2023, which has undergone PLS. Deputy Funchion is present; her committee reviewed it. There is an extensive set of recommendations. One of the key elements is a recognition that for probably some of the children who are most vulnerable, the solution to their situation does not just rest with Tusla. It may rest with CAMHS also or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy should hold on. We are providing those basics that he mentioned to more than 100,000 people.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department was providing-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department was providing accommodation to 7,500 thousand people in December 2021 and is now providing accommodation to more than 100,000 people. No other Department has ever had to meet such an enormous humanitarian challenge in such a tight period. I have always accepted in this House that the response has not been perfect and there are elements we could do better. If we had known...