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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 593 and 594 together. The Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions contains 22 commitments to survivors, intended to address the expressed priorities of those who spent time in Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions, as well as respond to the findings and recommendations of the Commission of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department has no contract for modular units at this site. Only the accommodation currently in use at this site is contracted to the Department and no additional capacity in modular homes may be offered for use for the accommodation for International Protection applicants, as it does not come under the scope of a planning exemption.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: As part of the State’s humanitarian response to the Ukrainian crisis, the Government developed a rapid build housing programme to provide accommodation for families fleeing the war in Ukraine. The Office of Public Works (OPW) is leading the development of this accommodation in conjunction with my Department. The programme is being progressed under the emergency derogations from...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Ireland and many other European countries are experiencing a significant increase in people seeking International Protection (IP). There are currently over 30,000 people accommodated in the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) system as a whole compared with approximately 8,700 people at the end of February 2022. In the first 21 weeks of 2024, over 8,300 people have arrived...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Department engages with relevant stakeholders and accommodation service providers as appropriate to ensure that international protection applicants placed in accommodation in isolated areas will have access to transportation for basic requirements. The International Protection Procurement Service (IPPS) try to ensure in as far as possible that International Protection (IP) applicants are...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Ireland and many other European countries are experiencing a significant increase in people seeking International Protection (IP). There are currently over 30,000 people accommodated in the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) system as a whole compared with approximately 8,700 people at the end of February 2022. In the first 21 weeks of 2024, over 8,300 people have arrived...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The accommodation provider to which the Deputy refers has decided to cease accommodating Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTPs) and has asked that all of the BOTPs in residence be moved to alternative accommodation. My Department's standard commercial accommodation contract provides that either party to the contract can terminate the agreement at any time with four weeks’ notice...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: There are currently over 30,000 people accommodated in the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) system as a whole compared with approximately 8,700 people at the end of February 2022. Ireland is currently experiencing an acute shortage of accommodation for people seeking International Protection (IPs). In order to minimise homelessness, the Department is availing of every...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department received an offer of accommodation for Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTPs) at the location to which the Deputy refers. The International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) has received no offer of accommodation in respect of this property for International Protection (IPs) applicants, and is not examining this property for use for accommodation of IPs. Offers of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The information is set out in the following table. Year Training Title Content Provider Cost Voluntary/Mandatory 2021 IPAS Team Intercultural Awareness Training Intercultural Awareness & Effective Psychosocial Assessment Spirasi €3501.70 Mandatory for IPAS team January 2023-onwards Equality and Human Rights: Understanding...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Legislation being brought forward by the Department prior to the Dáil summer recess is set out in the Government Legislation Programme 2024, which the Deputy may wish to know was published on 23rd April last and is available at www.gov.ie/en/publication/edb3c-government-legislation-progr amme-2024.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Immigration Policy (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Responsibility for housing policy rests with my colleague, the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The information is set out in the following table. - Local Youth Club Grant Scheme (LYCGS) ETB Youth Grant Youth Information Centres (YIC) Capital Funding for Staff Led Youth Services and Youth Clubs UBU - Your Place Your Space Funding Scheme Migrant Integration Fund Miscellaneous – non scheme related funding Total Cavan &...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme provides financial payments and health supports to eligible people who spent time in Mother and Baby or County Home Institutions, that were identified by the Commission of Investigation as having a main function of providing sheltered and supervised ante and post-natal facilities to single mothers and their children. The institutions covered by...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Thank you Deputy for your question. Since the announcement of the HSE's recruitment pause, and to ensure disability services were not unduly effected, Minister Rabbitte and officials have engaged consistently with the HSE, and in November 2023 announced specific derogations for categories of staff employed across the HSE and Section 38 specialist community-based disability services. This...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I would like to thank the Deputy for bringing this matter to my attention. Yes, I can confirm that I and the Payment Scheme Executive Office were aware that there were issues with the phone system in the early part of last week. I am happy to report that these matters have been resolved and the phone lines are up and running since Wed 29 May. All information on the Scheme, and how to apply,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: On 28 February 2021, with the dissolution of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, my Department became the data controller for all the personal data contained in the records and databases that transferred from the Commission. My Department is responsible for fulfilling data subject rights, including the right of access to personal data. I am very mindful of the importance...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that, following the opening of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme on 20 March, the first offers of awards under the Scheme were made in April, while the first payments were made and the first medical cards were issued in May.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: While I try to be helpful at all times in the parliamentary process, the Deputy will be aware that I cannot be involved in individual cases and cannot comment on same. The legislation underpinning the Payment Scheme - the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023 - specifically provides for the explicit independence of the Chief Deciding Officer in administering the application...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: As the Deputy is aware, under the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme, applicants are entitled to an enhanced medical card where they spent 180 days or more in a scheduled institution. This medical card is not means-tested, and is awarded solely on the basis of eligibility under the Scheme. This being the case, the enhanced medical card is not subject to intermittent review and will...