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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Expenditure (23 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 698 and 699 together. As the Deputy will be aware, the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy (NTRIS) is a whole of Government approach to bring about meaningful change and progress for the Traveller and Roma communities in Ireland. It brings Government Departments and Agencies together along with representatives of both Traveller and Roma communities...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Refugee Resettlement Programme (23 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) is providing accommodation to 20,485 people seeking refuge in Ireland. Since January 2022 IPAS have brought over 140 properties into use to ensure that all those who arrive in Ireland seeking protection can be accommodated. IPAS is responding to an offer of accommodation made in respect of a hotel in Scariff, Co. Clare. IPAS has...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (23 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: As this refers to service matters, 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: Regional Development (23 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The report referred to by the Deputy is from 2007 and makes a number of recommendations around supporting and providing opportunities for young people. My Department has made substantial progress since 2007 in supporting and promoting non-formal education and developmental opportunities for young people in that area. My Department provides funding to all 16 Education and Training Boards...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Expenditure (23 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Neither my Department not its aegies bodies provide capital funding for Community or Sporting facilities for adolescents. I might suggest that the Deputy directs her inquiry to my colleagues, the Minister for Tourism Culture Arts Gaeltacht Sport and Media or the the Minister for Rural and Community Development.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Guardian Status (23 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: This is a matter for my Cabinet colleague, the Minister for Justice.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (23 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme was not developed with the intention of trying diminish anyone’s personal experience in these institutions. The Payment Scheme should be recognised as just one element of a comprehensive package of support measures agreed by the Government as part of the Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (23 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: This is a matter for my Cabinet colleague, the Minister for Justice.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (23 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: This is a matter for my Cabinet colleague, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (23 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The ECCE programme is free to all children within the eligible age range regardless of need or background. Services are private enterprises who may hold differing admissions policies. If there is a concern that the local service's decision to refuse a place in contravention of the Equal Status Acts, then the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) is the independent, statutory body...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (23 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 709 and 710 together. The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme will provide financial payments to an estimated 34,000 people, some 19,000 of whom will also benefit from an enhanced medical card or health support payment. These benefits are in recognition of experiences while resident in Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. The overall cost of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Resource Centres (23 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, administers the Family Resource Centre Programme, which provides funding support to 121 Family Resource Centres across the country. Tusla's financial support is provided by way of a contribution towards the running costs of the centres. Tusla does not provide capital funding to the Family Resource Centre Programme. Currently, Tusla's annual core funding...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (23 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The ECCE scheme is a universal programme which provides 2 years of free preschool to children in the eligible age range of 2 years and 8 months to 5 years and 6 months. My Department funds private early learning and care service providers to provide the ECCE programme at a standard rate of €69 per week per child attending the ECCE programme. Under the new Core Funding scheme, where...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (23 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is assumed the Deputy is referring to an increase in the income assessed rates for under 3 year olds under the National Childcare Scheme (NCS). Income Assessed Subsidies are available to families with children aged between 24 weeks and 15 years. This subsidy is means tested and is calculated based on individual circumstances. The rate varies depending on the level of family income, the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (23 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department is prioritising making more timely payments of valid invoices, including providing more resources to address any issues, and outsourcing of elements of the process to speed up processing and to respond to supplier calls. With regard to the service provider referred to, I am advised by my officials that the outstanding invoices for February and March as referred to in the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (24 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: Gender Recognition (24 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Programme for Government contains a commitment, in terms of gender recognition, to examine arrangements for those aged under 16. DCEDIY has jointly commissioned research, with the Department of Social Protection, to identify the mechanisms used in other countries which govern legal gender recognition of children aged under 16 and to provide practical advice in relation to recognition...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (24 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department has allocated €9m in 2023 for The Building Blocks - Improvement Grant for Early Learning and Care (ELC) and School Age Childcare (SAC) facilities. Grants range from €35,000 to €75,000 across two separate strands: Green Energy and Retrofit. Services that signed up for the Core Funding Scheme were eligible for funding under the scheme. Overall, 946 services...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (24 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department has allocated €9m in 2023 for The Building Blocks - Improvement Grant for Early Learning and Care (ELC) and School Age Childcare (SAC) facilities. Grants range from €35,000 to €75,000 across two separate strands: Green Energy and Retrofit. Services that signed up for the Core Funding Scheme were eligible for funding under the scheme. Overall, 946 services...