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

Roderic O'Gorman: Pobal administer all childcare funding programmes on behalf of my Department. Pobal have informed my Department that there are 450 services which commenced provision of ECCE services in advance of the activation of their ECCE funding agreement. My Department has directed Pobal to fund ECCE service providers from the date of a child's registration on an ECCE programme, where the...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has no record of any financial support provided to the given organisation since the Department's establishment in June 2011.

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

Roderic O'Gorman: Thank you for your question on this important matter. The answer to your question is no UAMs were received into Ireland during 2019. The first cohort of 8 young people relating to the agreement arrived in June 2020. The state’s capacity to bring unaccompanied children to Ireland is determined by the available care placements, and the commitments the state has made to unaccompanied...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Data (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: Foster Care (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: Children in Care (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: Departmental Investigations (29 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: Thank you for raising this issue. Over the past number of years, there have been examples of organisations not upholding high standards of child protection in Ireland. In response to such situations, a number of policy and legislative improvements have been made to child protection standards over recent years. In particular, the Children First Act 2015, which was fully commenced in 2017,...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I understand from clarification sought by my officials, that the Deputy's question relates specifically to Tusla and not in relation to other State bodies under my remit or the HSE. The commissioning of non-residential services is an operational matter for Tusla. I have requested Tusla to respond directly to the Deputy regarding the information sought. The Deputy may also be interested in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (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: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 624 to 627, inclusive, 630, 632, 633 and 635 together. Many of the matters raised by the Deputy are being considered by the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation. The Commission is due to submit its final report to me next month and its remit includes investigating the entry and exit pathways for mothers and their children through certain...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 628, 629, 631 and 634 together. The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was established by Government to investigate the significant concerns related to the institutional care of unmarried mothers and their babies during the period 1922 to 1998. The Commission is tasked with providing a full account of what happened to vulnerable women...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: On the commencement of every Dáil, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform issues guidelines setting out the arrangements for the staffing of Ministerial Offices. It should be notedthat the appointment of individual Special Advisers is a matter for each Government Minister subject to the terms set out in the aforementioned guidelines, although the appointments are also subject...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I acknowledge that many early learning and care and school-age childcare services are reporting staffing and recruitment challenges, with increased pressures as a result of Covid-19. There is no official data on the extent of such shortages. However, officials in my Department have been actively monitoring the issue and have sought data and evidence-based proposals from sectoral...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: The correspondence referred to by the Deputy has been received by my Department and a response will issue shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 639, 647 and 651 together. As the Deputy will know, the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 has lapsed and I am currently considering the complex matters involved before deciding on how best to legislate in this important area. In that context, I am aware of the Report of the Collaborative Forum and the views expressed regarding Tusla being tasked...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The rationale for specifying Tusla as the recipient of the database is that the Agency already has statutory responsibility for adoption tracing services under the Adoption Act 2010. In addition, it currently holds the originals of many of the relevant institutional records. As such, the database will provide the agency with an organised, digital system for the records it already holds,...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: As the subject matter of the Deputy's question relates to an operational matter for Tusla, I have referred the matter to them for a direct reply.

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

Roderic O'Gorman: The details supplied by the Deputy include an article which refers to correspondence with the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes. In accordance with section 9 of the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004, the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes is independent in the performance of its functions. It must operate within its terms of reference and the...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 643 to 645, inclusive, together. These questions relate to specific provisions of the GDPR, the interpretation of that legislation and the Nowak judgement from the Court of Justice of the European Union. Data protection responsibilities fall on the relevant data controller, and it is the data controller who is obliged to interpret and implement data...