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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (18 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Thank you for your correspondence on behalf of your constituent regarding their daughter's eligibility for the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Programme. The ECCE programme provides universal, free preschool to children in the eligible age range of 2 years and 8 months to 5 years and 6 months. The upper age limit of 5 years and 6 months for ECCE was set in consultation with the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Pension Provisions (18 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for his question. My Department is currently engaging with the Department of Public Expenditure, NPD Delivery and Reform in relation to the 2025 Estimates. Until these discussions are concluded, it would not be appropriate for me to comment on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medical Cards (18 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Section 19(5)(b) of the legislation that underpins the Scheme - the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023 - provides that an applicant to the Scheme shall specify what benefits they are applying for. So, applicants can indeed select just the medical benefits and not the general or work payments. (In practice, the Payment Scheme Office will assess every application and where it...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Juvenile Offenders (9 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Information requested for 2014 and 2015 is not centrally available. Request 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 YTD Number of individual young persons admitted to Oberstown 01.04.16 – 21.08.24 N/A N/A 159 133 132 127 122 73 82 95 68

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Juvenile Offenders (9 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The maximum number of children that can be detained in Oberstown Children Detention Campus at any time is set by the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth by way of a Certificate issued under sections 195 and 196 of the Children Act 2001. The current certificate allows for 46 children - 40 boys and 6 girls.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Juvenile Offenders (9 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following tables. Year No. of Physical Assaults Reported Outcome Comments 2014 5 3 - unfounded 2 - unconfirmed 5 - physical interventions/restraint by staff 2015 12 2 - unfounded 2 - unconfirmed 8 - upheld 11- physical interventions/restraint by staff 1 - peer on peer (Of these 1 reported to TUSLA) ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Juvenile Offenders (9 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table. Request 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 YTD No. of times ambulances have been called to Oberstown 01.01.15 – 21.08.24 N/A 7 7 4 15 9 4 3 6 2 0**The Information requested for 2014 is not centrally available. Up to and including 21/08/24

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Juvenile Offenders (9 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: There were no deaths in Oberstown over the period in question. The second part of the question could be addressed to the Probation Service, as Oberstown do not have records on this.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Juvenile Offenders (9 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table. 26/08/2024 Young People in Residence Today Young People Previously in Juvenile Detention First Time in Juvenile Detention 38 28 10 Of the 38 young people in residence today (26/08/2024) 10 young people have not served previous periods of time in Juvenile Detention.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Juvenile Offenders (9 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: There is currently one permanent social worker employed in Oberstown.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Juvenile Offenders (9 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: There is one full time chaplain working in Oberstown.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Juvenile Offenders (9 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: HSE Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (FCAMHS) provides psychiatric services to young people in Oberstown. Tusla’s ACTS (Assessment Consultation Therapy Service) provides multidisciplinary services to address behaviours associated with complex clinical needs. Oberstown offers programmed interventions that aim to build young people’s responsibilities and address...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (9 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The service referred to by the Deputy has been in contract for Core Funding since the scheme was introduced in 2022. The service received €132,489.08 in year 1 of Core Funding and, as of June this year, the service had an approved contract value of €137,697.06 for year 2 of the scheme. Services coming into contract for year 3 of the scheme will benefit from further increases in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Reviews (9 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The care and welfare of children in care is a priority for this Government, which continues to be the subject of focused and continuous engagement between my Department and Tusla at all levels. A number of interfaces exist in this regard, including quarterly meetings between myself and the Tusla Board, quarterly Executive Management Team meetings between senior officials in both...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The number of Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTP) and that of International Protection Applicants (IPA) by local electoral areas is set out in the table below. The data for BOTPs is not usually collated in this manner and data available for July 2024 has been compiled in this format. This data refers to accommodation supported or provided by this Department. The CSO publishes regular...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Ireland is currently providing accommodation to approximately 38,500 Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTPs) from Ukraine in State supported accommodation and over 31,900 International Protection applicants in IPAS accommodation. Prior to the war in Ukraine, there were 8,300 applicants for international protection in State supported accommodation. Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (9 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The introduction of Core Funding in 2022 brought a significant increase in investment for the sector, with €259 million of funding paid directly to services in year 1 of the scheme, of which €210.8 million was entirely new funding. This funding, which increased by 11% (to €287 million) in year 2, will increase again by another 15% in year 3 (to €331 million). This...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (9 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The introduction of Core Funding in 2022 brought a significant increase in investment for the sector, with €259 million of funding paid directly to services in year 1 of the scheme, of which €210.8 million was entirely new funding. This funding, which increased by 11% (to €287 million) in year 2, will increase again by another 15% in year 3 (to €331 million). This...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (9 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Ensuring access to quality and affordable early learning and childcare is a key priority of Government. In addition to supporting the delivery and expansion of services through the range of current funding schemes, my Department is also delivering capital investment through the Building Blocks Capacity Grant. The scheme will operate in 2024 and 2025 through two strands, an Expansion scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Programme for Government (9 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department is currently collating the information requested and a reply will issue directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.