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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (30 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy is referring to an operational matter for Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. I have therefore referred the matter to Tusla, and asked that a direct response be provided to the Deputy. In addition you may find Tuslas Data Hub a useful resource for information.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (30 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy is asking about an operational matter for Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. I have therefore referred the matter to Tusla, and asked that a direct reply be provided in due course.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (30 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy is asking about an operational matter for Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. I have therefore referred the matter to Tusla, and asked that a direct reply be provided in due course.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (30 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy is asking about an operational matter for Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. I have therefore referred the matter to Tusla, and asked that a direct reply be provided in due course.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (30 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy is referring to an operational matter for Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. I have therefore referred the matter to Tusla, and asked that a direct response be provided to the Deputy. In addition, the Deputy may find Tusla's Data Hub a useful resource for information.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (30 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy is asking about an operational matter for Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. I have therefore referred the matter to Tusla, and asked that a direct reply be provided in due course.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Contracts (30 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: To date in 2020, my Department has spent €4,261.05 on media monitoring services. The services are provided by Media Watch Ltd., trading as Kantar Media, a private company.  Media monitoring services are not provided in-house. My Department's overall objective in this regard is to keep costs of this nature to a minimum and media monitoring services are only used when deemed...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (30 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Government has committed to establishing a dedicated agency, Childcare Ireland which was outlined in the 2020 Programme for Government. It is envisaged that Childcare Ireland will assist in expanding high quality childcare, best practice and innovation in community and private childcare settings. Childcare Ireland will also be tasked with developing career paths for childcare staff and...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The reopening of the early learning and care and school-age childcare sector and the resumption of services has been positive to date. Undoubtedly, the stimulus package provided by my Department has been critical to sustain capacity in their sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Temporary Wage Subsidy Childcare Scheme, which operated from April to June, enabled participating...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (30 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The amount expended by the Department on access to online and hardcopy media publications since May 2020 is €10,793.25, and is broken down as follows: - Title Spend (€) Since May 2020 Hardcopy Officedrop Ltd 41.58 Digital National Licensing Authority 6935.11 Reach...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Contracts (30 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Department has had a contract in place with Media Watch Ltd., trading as Kantar Media, for the years 2017 to-date. The contract is for the monitoring of print, online, social and broadcast media and covers all issues that are relevant to the duties and responsibilities of the Department. The majority of the costs, as set out below, and borne under the contract are for the provision...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Childcare Scheme (30 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The National Childcare Scheme (NCS) was first launched in November 2019. There are currently over 30,200 children who are subject to a claim by childcare providers. This is the highest number of child registrations on NCS to date and in comparative terms more children are registered for my Department’s schemes overall than were registered at the same time last year. The online...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (29 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 594, 596, 597 and 619 together. I acknowledge that low pay and poor working conditions in the sector remain a serious concern and impact on the quality of provision to children through their effect on the recruitment and retention of qualified staff. The lack of consistency of care caused by high staff turnover impacts directly on quality, while low wages...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Refugee Resettlement Programme (29 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: Thank you for your question on this pressing matter. I am extremely concerned with the plight of the refugees in Moria following the fires there, especially young people who are without parents or family in the camp. Ireland has committed to bringing four children from Moria in the coming weeks. The state’s capacity to bring unaccompanied children to Ireland is determined by the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Work Supports (29 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: In recent years funding for the provision of youth services has increased on an annual basis. Between 2016 and 2020 the annual current youth funding available to my Department increased from €51.9m to €61.79m. This additional funding is being used for programmes that target disadvantaged young people and to assist national youth organisations in their work to support local...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (29 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The organisation referred to by the Deputy receives annual funding as a national youth organisation under the Youth Service Grant Scheme, and in 2020, it has been allocated some €418,000 under this scheme. In early 2019, the organisation was advised of the capital funding that was available from my Department for youth organisations. Following a successful application,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency (29 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy is referring to an operational matter for Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. I have therefore referred the matter to Tusla, and asked that a direct response be provided to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency (29 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I wish to advise the Deputy that my officials have asked Tusla to respond directly to you on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency (29 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy is referring to an operational matter for Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. I have therefore referred the matter to Tusla, and asked that a direct response be provided to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (29 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: An external independent review of operations and best practice at the Campus was commissioned by the Board of Management of Oberstown Children Detention Campus in September 2016. The report of the review was submitted to the Board of Management in February 2017 and the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in March 2017. The Board of Oberstown took independent legal advice on the...