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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: As the matter to which the Deputy refers is an operational matter for Tusla, I have requested Tusla to respond to the Deputy directly within 10 working days.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (22 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: In accordance with the rules governing the Community Childcare Subvention Plus (CCSP) savers programme, parents who wish to maintain the "Saver" status for their eligible child under the CCSP programme were required to enrol their child in a Tusla registered service within four weeks of that service reopening. The current programme year for CCSP began on 17 August 2020, and 11 September was...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (22 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: Pobal are the administrators of all childcare funding programmes on behalf of my Department. Pobal have confirmed that all outstanding payments have issued to the service referred to by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency (22 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: Thank you deputy for highlighting this important matter. The Irish Times recently reported that the Kerry area of Tusla the Child and Family Agency had under reported referrals of suspected physical, emotional and sexual abuse and neglect to An Garda Siochana. This underreporting was identified by the Kerry area manager, who shared the finding with HIQA inspectors. The inspectors...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Disability Services Provision (22 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: Overall responsibly for disability policy still rests with my colleague, the Minister for Justice. As a result, the information requested by the Deputy is not available in my Department at present. However, the Department of Justice and Equality has provided the following information by way of response to the Deputy's Question. Part M of the Building Regulations does not, at present,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Archives (22 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (The Ryan Report) was published on 20th May 2009. Following the publication of the Report a detailed Implementation Plan was prepared and published in July 2009. The Government committed to full implementation of all ninety nine actions in the Ryan Implementation Plan. Implementation was overseen by a High Level Group chaired by the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Childcare Scheme (22 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The National Childcare Scheme has been in place since November 2019 and since that time over 62,000 awards have been generated for parents. The vast majority (around 97%) of these have been through the online process. The online application process for the NCS has been designed to be accessible, intuitive and user-friendly. The scheme also recognises that some people will have English or IT...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (22 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: Sponsorship arrangements within the National Childcare Scheme (NCS) play an important role in making additional supports available for families with complex and challenging needs that Early Learning and Care can help to address. Once a sponsored referral to the NCS has been completed and submitted on the system, it is processed and a ‘CHICK’ number is produced on the same day....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (22 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Childcare Support Act 2018 specifies 5 statutory bodies with which the Minister may make agreements in relation to referral procedures for free or additional childcare. These sponsorship arrangements within the National Childcare Scheme offer additional supports for families with complex and challenging needs that Early Learning and Care can help to address. Where there is a sponsored...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Childcare Scheme (22 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The National Childcare Scheme (NCS) represents the first ever statutory entitlement to childcare in Ireland, and has streamlined the multiple targeted support schemes previously available. In replacing the legacy schemes, the Scheme entails a fundamental shift away from subsidies grounded in medical card and social protection entitlements, and towards a comprehensive and progressive...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Childcare Scheme (22 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The National Childcare Scheme is the first ever statutory entitlement to financial support for childcare. It establishes an equitable and progressive system of universal and income-related subsidies for children up to the age of 15. It also provides an innovative and user-friendly online application process to access those subsidies. Through all of the above, the National Childcare Scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (22 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department made a comprehensive submission to the Attorney General’s Office in 2019 seeking confirmation as to whether Ireland was in a position to ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The advice received from the AGO stated that while Ireland is largely compliant with the terms of the Protocol, there are some outstanding issues that...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (22 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department has, since 2015, administered an annual capital funding programme, under which early learning and care (ELC) and school-age childcare (SAC) service providers are invited to apply for capital funding for new builds, to increase capacity and to maintain and improve their services. The capital strands are made available to achieve the strategic priorities as determined by my...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (23 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: All young persons under the age of 18 sentenced to a period of remand or detention by the Courts are detained in Oberstown Children Detention Campus. The operational costs for the day to day running of Oberstown Children Detention Campus (excluding pension and capital costs) in 2019 was €19.77 million. The Certificate issued by the Minister under Sections 195 and 196 of the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (23 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: Funding from my Department in respect of funded youth organisations is designed as a contribution towards a particular service being provided. My Department does not have a role in determining salaries or other related costs for a particular service, and there are no nationally recognised salary scales on which to draw. The cost of setting up a service will vary depending on the nature...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ombudsman for Children (23 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The allocation of the Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO), which is provided for in Subhead C.7 of Vote 40 in the published Revised Public Estimates, is outlined in the table below for the years 2018, 2019 and 2020. 2018 2019 2020 €2,633,000* €2,747,000 €2,865,000 The 2020 allocation...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Childcare Scheme (23 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The National Childcare Scheme (NCS) was first launched in November 2019. There are currently over 28,000 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 National...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse (23 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: Early Childhood Care and Education (24 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The ECCE programme provides universal free pre-school for all children. The ECCE programme rules specify the age which a child must reach before starting ECCE, which is 2 years and 8 months on or prior to 31 August of the relevant programme year to be eligible for the September start date. Age limits have been used to determine eligibility since the inception of the Early Childhood Care and...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (24 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: Pobal is responsible for the administration of the various early learning and care and school aged childcare schemes provided by my Department. Pobal has informed my Department that the registration process has been completed for the child referred to by the Deputy. An official from my Department has contacted the service provider to inform them that this matter has been resolved.