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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: In respect of the State’s humanitarian response to the Ukrainian crisis, the Government developed a Rapid Build Housing Programme to provide accommodation for families fleeing the war in Ukraine. The programme aims to provide short-term accommodation for up to 2,800 Ukrainian Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection at several sites across Ireland. Work has been completed on the first...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Providers that had an active Core Funding Contract during the 2022/2023 Programme Year must provide validated Financial Returns as per their Core Funding Partner Service Funding Agreement. Following constructive engagement with members and nominees of the Early Learning and Childcare Stakeholder Forum (ELCSF), including Childhood Services Ireland (CSI), Childminding Ireland, Early...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Local Authorities (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Individual Local Authorities are actively engaged in the recruitment process for the Local Authority Integration Teams (LAITs). While recruitment and on-boarding is still active across the majority of the Local Authorities, it is predicted that there will be a certain amount of personnel movement. As a result, which Local Authorities which have their teams fully in place is not static....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Providers that had an active Core Funding Contract during the 2022/2023 Programme Year must provide validated Financial Returns as per their Core Funding Partner Service Funding Agreement. Following constructive engagement with members and nominees of the Early Learning and Childcare Stakeholder Forum (ELCSF), including Childhood Services Ireland (CSI), Childminding Ireland, Early...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Advertising (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The total spend on advertising for my Department from 2016 to 2023, including a breakdown on traditional and digital media spend, can be seen below in tabular form. Year Online Advertising Traditional Advertising Grand Total 2023 € 293,363 € 822,971 € ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Contracts (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The information requested is being collated by my Department, and a reply will issue to the Deputy directly as soon as it is completed.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Expenditure (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department is preparing a response and will contact the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Expenditure (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Officials in my Department are currently compiling the information as requested by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The figures supplied by the scheme administrator Pobal in the table below show the percentage of services who only have an ECCE budget approval, the percentage of services who have both an ECCE and NCS budget approval and the percentage of services that only have an NCS approved budget for the programme years 2022/23 and 2023/24. While some ELC services are only contracted with my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for her question. A response will be provided directly to the Deputy in the coming days. The Deputy may wish to be aware that the Community Engagement Team has been established within my Department which stands ready to respond to queries of this nature, and they may be contacted directly at community@equality.gov.ie .

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department funds private early learning and care service providers to provide the ECCE programme at a standard rate of €69 per week per child attending the ECCE programme. With the addition of the Core Funding Scheme in 2022, services providing ECCE who are also signed up to Core Funding receive a minimum of €79.20 per child per week in capitation. This figure can rise to a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 454 and 456 together. I thank the Deputy for his question. A response will issue to the Deputy in the coming days.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Since the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine in February 2022, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) continues to work as part of the whole-of-Government response with a focus on providing access to emergency temporary accommodation to those fleeing the conflict who request it. To date, over 100,000 beneficiaries of temporary protection (BOTPs) have...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Ireland is currently accommodating over 75,000 persons fleeing the conflict in Ukraine who have sought temporary protection from the State, both directly and through schemes such as offer a home or pledged accommodation. Intensive efforts are being undertaken daily by Department officials to source emergency accommodation. However, procuring enough bed space to support those that require such...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Ireland is now accommodating over 100,000 people between those fleeing Ukraine and International Protection (IP) applicants. This includes almost 75,000 Ukrainian people who have sought accommodation from the State and almost 27,000 IP applicants currently in International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) accommodation. IPAS releases weekly statistics in relation to international...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Early learning and childcare providers offer a crucial service, however it must be noted that they are private entities. As such, it is a matter for each provider to decide whether they enter into any contractual arrangement with my Department – including Core Funding. It is important to note that 94% of services, over 4,300 services, have signed up to Core Funding and applications...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I wish to inform the Deputy that my officials have asked the Adoption Authority of Ireland and Tusla to respond directly to you on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Providers that had an active Core Funding Contract during the 2022/2023 Programme Year must provide validated Financial Returns as per their Core Funding Partner Service Funding Agreement. Following constructive engagement with members and nominees of the Early Learning and Childcare Stakeholder Forum (ELCSF), including Childhood Services Ireland (CSI), Childminding Ireland, Early...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible. The Deputy will be aware that due to the ongoing industrial action by FORSA administrative and management grade staff in the HSE (which commenced on 6 October, 2023), delays remain in receiving answers to parliamentary questions and ministerial...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I can inform the Deputy that my Department has received further correspondence from this childcare facility stating that they have issued further correspondence to all concerned parents, informing them that any plans in relation to the introduction of food costings are currently on hold and to refrain from making any payments at this point in time. Pobal and the local CCC are engaging with...