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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (30 Nov 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Over 650 providers are currently in arrangements with my Department to provide accommodation to Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection. Over €50m has issued from my Department to date in November in respect of Ukraine accommodation and related costs. We are working rapidly to process all invoices received, with additional resources assigned. Almost 40% more invoices have been processed...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (30 Nov 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Over 650 providers are currently in arrangements with my Department to provide accommodation to Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection. Over €50m has issued from my Department to date in November in respect of Ukraine accommodation and related costs. We are working rapidly to process all invoices received, with additional resources assigned. Almost 40% more invoices have been processed...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (30 Nov 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Over 650 providers are currently in arrangements with my Department to provide accommodation to Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection. Over €50m has issued from my Department to date in November in respect of Ukraine accommodation and related costs. We are working rapidly to process all invoices received, with additional resources assigned. Almost 40% more invoices have been processed...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (1 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine on 24 February, and the invoking of the Temporary Protection Directive by the European Union shortly afterwards, my Department has worked intensively as part of the cross-governmental response to the Ukraine crisis. The operational challenges brought about by responding to the conflict are significant. Our country has never experienced an influx of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (1 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 284 and 285 together. Under the Recast Reception Conditions Directive (SI 230 of 2018), the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) is legally required to provide material reception conditions in the form of accommodation and services to international protection applicants who seek it while their claim for international...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (1 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Government is investing significantly in the early learning and childcare sector and there is an ambitious new funding model being introduced to improve stability and sustainability for providers. There are supports, financial and otherwise, available to services who need them. On 15th September, I launched Together for Better, the new funding model for early learning and childcare....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (1 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: As the Deputy will be aware the Government made a commitment in the Programme for Government to end the current system of accommodation for International Protection applicants and replace it with a new model that is based on a not for profit approach. As part of this process, I published A White Paper to end Direct Provision and to Establish a new International Protection Support Serviceon 26...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (1 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: As of 20 November 2022, there are 17,518 people accommodated by the Internatinal Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS). At this point in 2021, there were approximately 7,250 people in IPAS accommodation. In the context of this crisis, the State is availing of all offers of accommodation made, including temporary emergency accommodation in Killarney and in many other locations nationwide, in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Bodies (1 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: As the Deputy will be aware, the Government made a commitment in the Programme for Government to end the current system of accommodation for International Protection applicants and replace it with a new model that is based on a not for profit approach. As part of this process, I published A White Paper to end Direct Provision and to Establish a new International Protection Support Serviceon...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Contracts (1 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I wish to advise the Deputy that the Department for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth provides information in respect of contracts awarded without a competitive process on the annual 40/02 return to the Comptroller and Auditor General and to the Office of Government Procurement (OGP). The 2022 return will be submitted to the C&AG by 31st March 2023. In respect of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (1 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Deputy, the information sought is currently being collated by the Department. The response will issue as soon as the information is available.

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Instruction to Committee (7 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move: That it be an instruction to the Committee to which the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022 may be recommitted in respect of certain amendments that, pursuant to Standing Order 187, the Committee has power to make amendments to the Bill which are outside the scope of the existing provisions of the Bill in order to make amendments to the quorum arrangements for...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, line 8, after “purpose” to insert “and other purposes”. I am pleased to be here to speak on Report Stage of the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022. It is really important legislation that will allow us to implement two final elements of the work-life balance directive from the European Union. It...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I touched base with officials about that. Regarding who is entitled to leave for medical care purposes, section 5 of the Bill inserts a new section 13A into the Parental Leave Act to provide for an entitlement to five days of medical care leave for parents and carers. An employee can take the leave to care for a person of whom the employee is the relevant parent, the spouse or civil partner...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 2: In page 3, line 9, to delete “entitle” and substitute “provide for the entitlement of”.

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 3: In page 3, line 9, after “purposes” to insert “and domestic violence leave”.

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 4: In page 3, line 10, after “purposes;” to insert “to provide for the entitlement of employees to request remote working arrangements;”.

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 5: In page 3, lines 13 and 14, to delete all words from and including “and” in line 13 down to and including line 14 and substitute the following: “, the Adoption Act 2010, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014, the Workplace Relations Act 2015 and the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022; and to provide for related...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 6: In page 3, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: "PART 1 PRELIMINARY AND GENERALShort title, collection citation and commencement 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022. (2) The Parental Leave Acts 1998 to 2019 and Part 2 may be cited together as the Parental Leave Acts 1998 to 2022. (3) This Act,...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 7: In page 3, line 17, to delete “In this Act” and substitute “In this Part”.