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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Cybersecurity Policy (20 May 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: ICT services are provided to my Department by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO). The provision of ICT security is part of that service, which implements a security-by-design and defence-in-depth approach to cyber security. My ICT Staff are engaging closely with the OGCIO on this issue, who in turn are engaging with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Assisted Decision-Making (20 May 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Government made a commitment in the Programme for Government to commencing the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 (the 2015 Act), recognising the importance of the much needed reform it represents. The Government is working towards a date of June 2022 for full commencement of the 2015 Act, with the Decision Support Service opening for business immediately thereafter. Before the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Data Protection (20 May 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: On the broader matter of Departmental compliance with the GDPR, I can state that the Department continues to be actively engaged in meeting the wide range of obligations that the Regulation imposes on data controllers. Responsibility for implementation of NIS (EU Network and Information Security directive) in Ireland lies with CSIRT-IE, in Department of Communications, Climate Action and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Data Protection (20 May 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I wish to inform the Deputy that my officials have asked the agencies under the aegis of my Department to respond directly to you on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (20 May 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department does not collect information of the nature requested by the Deputy. While my Department provides funding for the provision of national and local youth services through three different funding schemes:-the UBU Your Place Your Space scheme, the Youth Services Grant Scheme and the Local Youth Service Grant Scheme; this funding is not allocated based on the number of youth...

Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (19 May 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 11: In page 5, to delete lines 29 to 35 and substitute the following: “(6) (a) Regulations made under this section may require the employer to publish information in respect of a public body. (b) In this subsection— ‘Act of 1998’ means the Education Act 1998; ‘Act of 2014’ means the Companies Act 2014;...

Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (19 May 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 13: In page 7, to delete lines 29 to 37, to delete page 8, and, in page 9, to delete lines 1 to 35 and substitute the following: “ “Application to Circuit Court or High Court in case of failure to comply with regulations made under section 20A 85B. (1) Subject to subsection (3), where the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission is satisfied that it...

Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (19 May 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am of the view that the strengthening we have just agreed to under amendment No. 13, by giving those extra powers to IHREC to take a case to the High Court to ensure that, where IHREC so believes the seriousness and the egregiousness, perhaps, of the breach of the legislation of these reporting provisions by a particular employer warrants going to the High Court and that very significant...

Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (19 May 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 16: In page 10, line 15, to delete “5th anniversary” and substitute “4th anniversary”. I was able earlier to refer briefly to this amendment. It reduces the time period within which a review and report of this legislation will be undertaken. It is set currently at five years. I am proposing to reduce that to four years. I think we have...

Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (19 May 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I understand why the Deputy is trying to expand the reach of this legislation and the speed at which it will apply. However, it is important for the House to recognise the reasons it is designed in this way. The incremental application of the reporting requirement is deliberate and is based on consultations that were undertaken with both unions and employer representative groups. There was...

Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (19 May 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I understand the Deputy's intent to ensure the reporting requirement is as far-reaching as possible. However, it is important to note that no other specific class of employer, other than by reference to its size, is specifically referred to in the Bill. The Bill instead provides at section 2 for the insertion of a new section 20A into the Employment Equality Act 1998 and that under...

Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (19 May 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank Deputies for their support for the legislation. I agree with Deputy Funchion's comments on the very significant distance the Houses of the Oireachtas have to go towards a family-friendly and particularly a gender-friendly system of work. To refer specifically to Deputy Funchion's proposed amendment, it seeks to delete the words "if any" in respect of the publication of reasons in...

Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (19 May 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am pleased to engage with Deputies on this significant legislation. I acknowledge the work done by the former Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, in bringing the Bill this far. I thank Deputy Funchion for her amendments, which seek to provide for a gender breakdown of information on various categories of employees. However, I have real concerns that providing that type of breakdown may...

Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (19 May 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: We absolutely accept there is a gender pay gap. That is why we are bringing forward this legislation. There is no question about that. The most recent EUROSTAT figures indicate it is 14.4% in Ireland. That is not acceptable and these provisions are designed to address it. We all accept that the Bill will not solve everything but it will, for the first time, provide for a structured and...

Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Order for Report Stage (19 May 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (19 May 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I take it that the Deputy is referring to section 39 of the Health Act 2004 which relates to funding of bodies by the HSE and section 56 of the Child and Family Agency Act 2013 which relates to funding by Tusla. Section 56 organisations provide services funded by Tusla under section 56 of the Child and Family Agency Act 2013. Tusla funds over 700 bodies, mostly in the community and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (19 May 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: As the matter raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, I have referred the question to Tusla for direct response to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (18 May 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 579 to 581, inclusive, together. I can confirm that period products are provided free of charge in all of my Department’s accommodation centres. As part of the initiative to prevent period poverty and promote gender equality, since 15 March 2021, residents of centres that offer a points-based foodhall system have not had points deducted for...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (18 May 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department does not provide specific funding supports to schools but has since 2015, administered an annual capital funding programme, under which early learning and care (ELC) and school aged childcare (SAC) services which are registered with Tulsa can access capital funding.  The works eligible for capital funding are determined by my Department on an...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Authority of Ireland (18 May 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 583 to 585, inclusive, together. The issue of Irish children being adopted abroad has been in the public domain for many years, and has been extensively discussed, including in the media and in the Oireachtas. The state papers released in 1996 contained details of children sent abroad for adoption. Following this, the Department of Health requested...