Results 781-800 of 19,559 for speaker:Norma Foley
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (11 Feb 2025)
Norma Foley: Children in the care of the State are some of the most vulnerable individuals in our society. My Department and Tusla continue to work closely on the safeguarding framework for all children in care to ensure that it continues to be sufficiently robust to protect children from evolving risks. Prior to the publication of the UCD Sexual Exploitation Research Programme (SERP) report, my...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 Feb 2025)
Norma Foley: 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.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 Feb 2025)
Norma Foley: 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.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ministerial Responsibilities (11 Feb 2025)
Norma Foley: The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration & Youth has one Minister of State, Deputy Hildegarde Naughton, who is Minister of State with responsibility for Disability. The delegation of functions to the Minister of State is currently being determined and has not been finalised. A Delegation Order will issue in due course.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 Feb 2025)
Norma Foley: 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.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 Feb 2025)
Norma Foley: 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.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (11 Feb 2025)
Norma Foley: 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.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 Feb 2025)
Norma Foley: 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.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 Feb 2025)
Norma Foley: As this question refers to service/operational matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 Feb 2025)
Norma Foley: 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.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (11 Feb 2025)
Norma Foley: Some €25m in capital funding has been made available this year under the Building Blocks Extension Grant Scheme. The primary focus of the scheme is to increase capacity in the 1–3-year-old, pre-ECCE, age range for full day care. Applications for this scheme have now closed and an appraisal process has begun. I expect to announce the outcome of the application process in March. ...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 Feb 2025)
Norma Foley: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly. Please include in reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 Feb 2025)
Norma Foley: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly. Please include in reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (6 Feb 2025)
Norma Foley: Providing reception conditions – accommodation and other basic supports – to applicants is part of Irish and EU law and is also part of our humanitarian duty to provide shelter to people fleeing war and persecution in their home country. The State is currently accommodating almost 33,000 people in international protection accommodation, about 9,000 of whom are children with...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (6 Feb 2025)
Norma Foley: Since 2021, there has been a sudden and sustained increase in numbers of people applying for International Protection in Ireland, and in other EU Member States. This increase happened at the same time as the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the EU Temporary Protection Directive, which saw over 113,000 people from Ukraine come to live in Ireland. Amid a basic shortage of accommodation...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Work Projects (6 Feb 2025)
Norma Foley: Action 17 of the Young Ireland: National Policy Framework for Children and Young People 2023 – 2028 commits to the development and implementation of a 'Youth Services Action Plan' to provide a strategic direction for the delivery of youth services. In response to this commitment, the outgoing Government approved the new national strategy entitled Opportunities for Youth: National...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Artificial Intelligence (6 Feb 2025)
Norma Foley: The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) is guided by the Interim Guidelines for Use of AI in the Public Service published by the Public Service Transformation Delivery Unit in the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer and by the National Cyber Security Centre on ICT policy and...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (6 Feb 2025)
Norma Foley: Increasing access to affordable childcare is a key priority of government. Last year, a Supply Management Unit within the Early Learning and Care and School Age Childcare Division was established, and the Programme for Government articulates an intention that the unit be resourced and transformed into a Forward Planning and Delivery Unit to identify areas of need, forecast demand and...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Contracts (6 Feb 2025)
Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that the Department for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth consultancy contracts in 2023 and 2024 are listed in the table below. Bodies under the aegis of the department will respond directly to the deputy. Name of Consultants Purpose of Contract Value Duration Grainne Healy Facilitation...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (5 Feb 2025)
Norma Foley: This Department has received no requests as outlined in the details supplied by the Deputy.