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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (24 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I welcome the publication on 18 October by the Central Statistics Office of the results of the 2022 Structure of Earnings Survey (SES), which includes a calculation of the gender pay gap (GPG) for Ireland for 2022. The 9.6% figure for 2022 includes all firm sizes including those with 1-9 employees and in the Public Administration, Defence, and Compulsory Social Security economic sectors. ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Budget 2024 (24 Oct 2023)

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

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (24 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: This information will issue directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Public Sector Pay (24 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The sustainability and stability of health and social care sectors and the impact of industrial action on essential services is a concern for Government. Although the organisations are not within the public sector, my Department and the Department of Health are aware that staff working across these Section 39 and Section 56 organisations have been employed using a multiplicity of terms and...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: The Accommodation Recognition Payment Scheme, provided for under the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022, is a tax-free monthly payment available to those providing accommodation to Ukrainians who arrived in Ireland under the EU Temporary Protection Directive since March 2022. The scheme is linked to the activation of the Temporary Protection Directive and is currently due to...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I wish to inform the Deputy in relation to her request that the Children’s Rights Alliance facilitated a remote targeted consultation with a number of invited organisations, including BelongTo, on the National Policy Framework for Children and Young People on behalf of my Department, in 2022. There was no fee associated with their participation in this consultation. In 2021 and 2022,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I can confirm that Clare (Ennis) County Home is an institution that is included in the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme. While it is not possible to comment on a specific individual's potential eligibility for Scheme benefits, it may be helpful to note that the Scheme will be straightforward and non-adversarial, and will provide benefits to applicants based on time spent in an...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (25 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Coole Court was successful in a recent public Request for Tender (RFT) process for accommodation for international protection applicants (IPAs). The International Protection Procurement Service (IPPS) are currently contracting with successful tenderers from the panel and once these 2-year contracts execute, the contractors will undertake the identified mobilisation works to deliver their...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (25 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Tusla has advised that various supports are provided throughout the country to foster carers who foster on an emergency basis. Tusla’s National Out of Hours Service (NOHS) has a number of foster carers who accept placements out of hours where an initial or start up allowance is provided to emergency foster carers to facilitate the purchase of a range of items required to foster on an...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (25 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Statutory and operational responsibility for the delivery of child protection and welfare services is a matter for Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. The Deputy is seeking information in relation to an operational matter. Consequently, I have referred the matter to Tusla, and requested that a direct response be provided to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (25 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Access and Inclusion Model (AIM) operates in tandem with the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme and as such, provision of AIM supports are directly linked with ECCE participation/hours of operation. AIM’s objective is to support the meaningful participation of children with disabilities in ECCE. ECCE is available to all children within the eligible age range....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (25 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am aware of the challenges that can face an Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) service if they unexpectedly lose their premises and have an effective response in place to support such circumstances. My Department oversees a case management process, through which local City and County Childcare Committees (CCCs) and Pobal work together to assess and provide support to ELC and SAC services...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: Officials in my Department are progressing work to finalise the Equal Participation Model (EPM) which will aim to help children and their families who may be experiencing disadvantage to access Early Learning and Childcare settings, through a range of supports, universal and targeted. The design of the EPM is being finalised based on extensive feedback and consultations with educators,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (25 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: This response will issue directly to the Deputy.

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

Roderic O'Gorman: Local Authority owned sites confirmed for the Rapid Build Programme:Mahon, Cork City CouncilDoorly Park, Sligo County CouncilClonminch, Offaly Co CouncilBallinasloe, Galway County CouncilCharleville, Cork County Council

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (26 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Access and Inclusion Model (AIM) operates in tandem with the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme and as such, provision of AIM supports are directly linked with ECCE participation / hours of operation. AIM’s objective is to support the meaningful participation of children with disabilities in ECCE. ECCE is available to all children within the eligible age range....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (26 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: As the Deputy will appreciate, my Department is responding to the largest increase in the number of people seeking refuge in the State's history. Since February 2022, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has worked extensively to accommodate over 98,000 arrivals fleeing the war in Ukraine, over 80% have sought accommodation from this Department, with the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (26 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: All Core Funding measures in Year 2 of Core Funding apply to registered childminders, except for the minimum base rate allocation. In line with the approach to Core Funding recommended by the Expert Group report, Partnership for the Public Good, the new funding model can, in principle, apply to registered childminders and centre-based provision, but there is a need to take into account...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (26 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The National Action Plan for Childminding 2021-2028 commits to extending regulation and supports to paid, non-relative childminders who work in their own homes over the coming years. The National Action Plan sets out a phased approach with a preparatory phase followed by an extended transition phase, to allow childminders a lead-in time for any requirements. This supportive, phased transition...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: In respect of Cashel, Deputy Lowry and all of the other Tipperary Deputies have been in touch with me on this. We continue to need to source additional accommodation for international protection applicants. We had sourced some accommodation in Cashel. We have a very clear policy that we do not source accommodation where that has previously been used for homelessness accommodation....