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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (25 Apr 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The availability of high-quality early learning and childcare is a key Government priority. The Department monitors early learning and childcare capacity on an ongoing basis, with a particular focus on responding to the unmet early learning and childcare needs of families. The annual data captured by Pobal on behalf of my Department - through the Early Years Sector Profile Survey - is one...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (25 Apr 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Our Rural Future is the whole-of-Government policy for sustainable rural development in Ireland. It was published in March 2021 and contains more than 150 measure intended to support the post–Covid-19 recovery in the short-term, economic and social development in the longer terms as well as environmental and cultural well-being. The policy acknowledges the challenges facing those...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (25 Apr 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I will set out the position in this reply rather than in a memo. As the Deputy is aware, the decision to utilise the building in question to accommodate single female international protection applicants has been made in an extraordinarily pressurised context. There are currently almost 570 people without accommodation in the State so the use of the property in question is desperately needed...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Meetings (25 Apr 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: As the Deputy may be aware, the Minister for Education has responsibility for matters relating to survivors of Residential Institutional abuse. However, given the seriousness of this situation, my officials are liaising with the Department of Education to offer any assistance that we can provide, to bring this situation to a satisfactory conclusion as a matter of urgency.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Nothing has been put on the back burner. At the time, I said we were initiating a process with a number of the religious orders. I met a number of them. That process is ongoing. I also always said the priority was the passage of the legislation that would allow for the-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: -----payment of redress. As I said, those negotiations are ongoing. I do not believe one can have a genuine negotiation and hold one in public at the same time, so once those negotiations are completed we will bring an update to Dáil Éireann.

Transport Support Schemes for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I welcome today’s motion. I thank the Regional Group for highlighting this important issue. As Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, the issue of accessibility and having appropriate transport and mobility supports is raised with me frequently by people with disabilities. It is an issue on which the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, and I are focused....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (4 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The National Childcare Scheme (NCS) provides financial support to help parents to meet the cost of childcare and allow children to access Early Learning and School Age Childcare. The Scheme aims to improve outcomes for children, reduce poverty, facilitate labour activation, and tangibly reduce the cost of ELC and SAC for tens of thousands of families. NCS supports take the form of three...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (4 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Programme for Government contains a commitment to legislate to ban conversion therapy. The National LGBTI Youth Strategy 2018 – 2020 and the National LGBTI+ Inclusion Strategy 2019 – 2021 contain commitments in relation to conversion therapy. The LGBTI+ National Youth Strategy provides for the prohibition of “the promotion or practice of conversion therapy by health...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (4 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The below list of properties for the provision of International Protection do not have lease agreements but instead have contracts or licence to use agreements. These include the following: 42 Permanent centres. 3 EROCs, 22 Emergency centres 1 (opened prior to 2022) 8 Pre Reception centres - (this includes some centres opened during Covid). 96 Emergency centres 2 - All centres opened in 2022...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Budgets (3 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 326 and 327 together. On 1 March 2023 Specialist Community-Based Disability Services transferred from the Department of Health to the Department for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. The budget allocation that will transfer between the two departments, subject to Oireachtas approval, is €2.647 billion based on the agreed scope of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (3 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: As this question refers to an operational matter I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (3 May 2023)

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

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Employment Rights (3 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Discrimination on nine specified grounds, namely, gender, civil status, family, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race, membership of the Traveller is prohibited by law in the field of employment under the Employment Equality Acts 1998 to 2015. The Acts prohibit direct and indirect discrimination or harassment related to any of the discriminatory grounds, sexual harassment, and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (3 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 331 and 332 together. The Programme for Government contains a commitment to legislate to ban conversion therapy. The National LGBTI Youth Strategy 2018 – 2020 and the National LGBTI+ Inclusion strategy 2019 – 2021 contain commitments in relation to conversion therapy. The LGBTI+ National Youth Strategy provides for the prohibition of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (3 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Programme for Government contains a commitment to legislate to ban conversion therapy. The National LGBTI Youth Strategy 2018 – 2020 and the National LGBTI+ Inclusion strategy 2019 – 2021 contain commitments in relation to conversion therapy. The LGBTI+ National Youth Strategy provides for the prohibition of “the promotion or practice of conversion therapy by health...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (3 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, operates the TellUs portal, where any individual can make a complaint. Details of how to make a complaint and how complaints are managed can be found on Tusla's website: www.tusla.ie/about/feedback-and-complaints/ Tusla’s complaint process has four stages. Stage 1: Tusla aims for local resolution, where at all possible. Key Performance Indicator...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (3 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Ireland ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) on 20 March 2018. This marked an important milestone in a process to strengthen the rights of people with disabilities in Ireland that has gathered momentum since Ireland became a signatory to the Convention in 2007. Ireland's approach to meeting the obligations of the UNCRPD is one of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (3 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department is prioritising maintaining a practice of more timely payments, including providing more resources to address any issues, and outsourcing of elements of the process to speed up processing and respond to supplier calls. Any delays in making payments are deeply regretted and my Department is according this issue very high priority. One of the outstanding invoices referred to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (3 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am advised by my officials that the Ukraine Crisis Temporary Emergency Team (UCTAT) within my Department has accommodated a total of 1,068 Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection in 22 properties in the Cork City Council Local Authority Area. There are currently 11 properties in use by the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS), with 1,380 International Protection...