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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Data (11 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: Please find the current staffing details for my Department outlined in the table below: Division Total Minister's Office, MB, PMO & IA 22.00 Child Policy & Tusla Governance 46.00 Early Learning and Care and School-Age Childcare Division 77.00 Youth Justice,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (11 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 169 and 171 together. In the course of developing the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020, it was recognised that the compressed timeframe available to bring the legislation through the Houses, to ensure that the records could be protected ahead of the dissolution of the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff (11 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy may wish to be aware that the number of staff employed in my Department working solely within the remit of the Mother and Baby Homes is 8.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (11 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am aware of the tragic case to which the Deputy refers. However, I am unable to comment on the specific details pertaining to individual cases. A critical incident policy is in place to provide guidelines for my Department staff and accommodation centre managers and staff in the event of the death of a resident. All deaths and serious incidents that occur within accommodation...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Properties (11 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department and bodies under its aegis do not rent office space from the named company or an Irish subsidiary.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Parental Leave (11 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am conscious of demands on parents at this time. I hope that the additional measures, introduced by the Government in recent years, to support working parents are helping to ease some of these demands. Parental leave, which is available to either parent, was increased from 22 to 26 weeks on 1 September 2020. Parents can take parental leave for each eligible child before their 12th...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Youth Services (11 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Senator for raising this matter. We have not left young people out in our response to Covid. Young people have been central in the response not just of the Government but also of my Department. We are aware that Covid has disrupted all elements of life across the country and has had a particular impact on the well-being of young people. Their educational progress has been...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Youth Services (11 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I fully agree that investing in our youth is fundamentally important. I have outlined how my Department has done that and will continue to do that. I am always open to considering all avenues. We changed the public health guidelines to ensure that youth services could open even in level 5, albeit in small groups. I talked to a scout leader yesterday whose cubs had met for the first time...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: Under the Irish Refugee Protection Programme (IRPP) Ireland has committed to accepting 50 people in family groups from the camp at Moria in Greece. Officials from my Department have been in contact with EU counterparts to confirm this pledge and to begin the process of resettling refugees to Ireland. Ireland has also committed to taking 36 unaccompanied minors from Greece, under the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I understand that the KDYS project in Killorglin is a family support programme run in partnership with Tusla. It is not funded by my Department in respect of youth services. The below table sets out funding allocated by my Department via Kerry Education and Training Board for KDYS for youth service provision. KERRY ETB Funded Organisation 2020 Funding Allocation ...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Offices (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department does not have lease arrangements with co-working real estate companies.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Offices (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department does not currently lease additional office space that is outside its Departmental buildings and the estates section of the OPW. The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth's Departmental buildings include Block 1, Miesian Plaza, 50 to 58 Baggot Street Lower, Dublin 2; and, Montague Court, 7 to 11 Montague Street,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department operates an annual capital funding programme, under which early learning and care and school-age childcare service providers are invited to apply for capital funding to enable them to carry out works to maintain and develop their premises. The purposes for which this funding can be used are determined on an annual basis by my Department I will announce details of the 2021...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Parental Leave (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: To support parents of children born during the strict lockdown measures, the Government intends to extend parent's leave from two weeks to five weeks for each parent of all children born or adopted on or after 1 Nov 2019. The Government also intends to extend the period in which parent's leave can be taken up until that child turns two or, in the case of an adoption, two years after the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is the duty of our State and - following the State’s opt-in to the European Communities (Reception Conditions) Regulations 2018 - a legal requirement to offer accommodation, food and a range of other services (including meals, utilities, healthcare etc.) and allowances to any person who claims a right to international protection in Ireland while their legal claim is being examined....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I can advise the Deputy that my Department did not incur expenditure in respect of hand sanitisation products or other PPE products that were subsequently subject to a recall by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in 2020. In the case of agencies under the aegis of my Department, I can convey the following information. I am informed by the Adoption Authority of Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters submitted its final report to me on the 30th October 2020. I had signalled that there would be a short time interval between receipt of the report and the separate arrangements for its publication. A number of relevant procedural issues are being expedited to ensure I can seek the approval of Government to...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I understand that the Deputy is referring to a person who is experiencing difficulties accessing their MyGov.ie account. However, since MyGov.ie is the responsibility of the Department of Social Protection the matter should be raised with my colleague Deputy Heather Humphreys, Minister for Social Protection.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department currently funds the youth services mentioned by the Deputy through the 'UBU Your Place Your Space' Scheme. This is a targeted youth funding scheme aimed at supporting young people between the ages of 10 and 24 who are at risk of becoming disadvantaged, marginalised or vulnerable. This scheme sets out the process by which new services may enter the scheme and how existing...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (12 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: I appreciate the Chairman's indulgence on time. I am going to the first meeting on the national Traveller and Roma integration strategy and want to be there on time. I am very pleased to be here today to discuss my Department’s Further Revised Estimate for 2020. As members will recall, I appeared before the committee on 6 October when I presented the Estimate for the Department of...