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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Budget 2021 (17 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The response to Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (DSGBV) is a cross Departmental and multi-agency issue. Policy is coordinated by the Department of Justice and Equality (DJE). Under the Child and Family Agency Act, 2013, Tusla, the Child and Family Agency has statutory responsibility for the care and protection of victims of DSGBV. The Programme for Government sets out a...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (17 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: My office has recently received representations in relation to the issue raised by the Deputy. As this is an operational issue for Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, I have requested that Tusla respond to the Deputy directly on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Budgets (17 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The risk of potential contingent liabilities is normally considered on an annual basis in the context of the Appropriation Account as well as the Budget and Estimates cycles respectively and taking account of any legal advice or specific knowledge of situations occurring, that might give rise to a contingent liability.  The Appropriation Account for 2019 for my...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Asylum Seekers (17 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 628, 629 and 632 together. My Department does not hold data or maintain statistics on disabilities of international protection applicants residing in accommodation provided by the International Protection Accommodation Service. Every effort is, however, made to ensure that a resident's specific needs are met in assigning accommodation to them. The...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Parental Leave (17 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 630 and 633 together. To support parents of children born during the strict lock-down measures, the Government intends to extend parent's leave from two weeks to five weeks for each parent of all children born or adopted on or after 1 Nov 2019. The Government also intends to extend the period in which parent's leave can be taken up until that...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Asylum Seekers (17 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: Discussions are ongoing between officials in my Department and the HSE to enable formal vulnerability assessments for applicants for international protection by the end of the year. This will ensure that a coherent process is in place for both the health and non-health aspects required in formalised assessments. To assist in determining how best we can meet the health and related needs...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (17 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: Youth services funded by my Department operate at both the national and local level. In addition to funding universal youth services aimed at all young people, my Department funds targeted youth services through the UBU Your Place Your Space scheme. Under this scheme, €38.7million was allocated in 2020 to support young people between the ages of 10 and 24 who are at risk of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence (17 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The response to Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (DSGBV) is a cross Departmental and multi-agency issue. Policy is coordinated by the Department of Justice and Equality (DJE). Under the Child and Family Agency Act, 2013, Tusla, the Child and Family Agency has statutory responsibility for the care and protection of victims of DSGBV. The Programme for Government sets out a...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: Under the Irish Refugee Protection Programme (IRPP) Ireland has committed to accepting 50 people in family groups from the camp at Moria in Greece. Officials from my Department have been in contact with EU counterparts to confirm this pledge and to begin the process of resettling refugees to Ireland. Ireland has also committed to taking 36 unaccompanied minors from Greece, under the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I understand that the KDYS project in Killorglin is a family support programme run in partnership with Tusla. It is not funded by my Department in respect of youth services. The below table sets out funding allocated by my Department via Kerry Education and Training Board for KDYS for youth service provision. KERRY ETB Funded Organisation 2020 Funding Allocation ...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Offices (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department does not have lease arrangements with co-working real estate companies.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Offices (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department does not currently lease additional office space that is outside its Departmental buildings and the estates section of the OPW. The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth's Departmental buildings include Block 1, Miesian Plaza, 50 to 58 Baggot Street Lower, Dublin 2; and, Montague Court, 7 to 11 Montague Street,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department operates an annual capital funding programme, under which early learning and care and school-age childcare service providers are invited to apply for capital funding to enable them to carry out works to maintain and develop their premises. The purposes for which this funding can be used are determined on an annual basis by my Department I will announce details of the 2021...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Parental Leave (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: To support parents of children born during the strict lockdown measures, the Government intends to extend parent's leave from two weeks to five weeks for each parent of all children born or adopted on or after 1 Nov 2019. The Government also intends to extend the period in which parent's leave can be taken up until that child turns two or, in the case of an adoption, two years after the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is the duty of our State and - following the State’s opt-in to the European Communities (Reception Conditions) Regulations 2018 - a legal requirement to offer accommodation, food and a range of other services (including meals, utilities, healthcare etc.) and allowances to any person who claims a right to international protection in Ireland while their legal claim is being examined....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I can advise the Deputy that my Department did not incur expenditure in respect of hand sanitisation products or other PPE products that were subsequently subject to a recall by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in 2020. In the case of agencies under the aegis of my Department, I can convey the following information. I am informed by the Adoption Authority of Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters submitted its final report to me on the 30th October 2020. I had signalled that there would be a short time interval between receipt of the report and the separate arrangements for its publication. A number of relevant procedural issues are being expedited to ensure I can seek the approval of Government to...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I understand that the Deputy is referring to a person who is experiencing difficulties accessing their MyGov.ie account. However, since MyGov.ie is the responsibility of the Department of Social Protection the matter should be raised with my colleague Deputy Heather Humphreys, Minister for Social Protection.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department currently funds the youth services mentioned by the Deputy through the 'UBU Your Place Your Space' Scheme. This is a targeted youth funding scheme aimed at supporting young people between the ages of 10 and 24 who are at risk of becoming disadvantaged, marginalised or vulnerable. This scheme sets out the process by which new services may enter the scheme and how existing...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I appreciate the Chairman's indulgence on time. I am going to the first meeting on the national Traveller and Roma integration strategy and want to be there on time. I am very pleased to be here today to discuss my Department’s Further Revised Estimate for 2020. As members will recall, I appeared before the committee on 6 October when I presented the Estimate for the Department of...