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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (23 Jul 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: An Garda Síochána (AGS) is responsible for operational policing matters, and where criminal acts may have occurred, the Department is precluded from commenting or providing detailed information, as it may prejudice any consequent investigations or court cases. The Department of Integration continues to work with relevant state agencies to support people who have applied for...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (23 Jul 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Department of Integration does not collate the information in the manner requested for publication. However, weekly and monthly statistics are released that are available publicly on the gov.ie at the link below: www.gov.ie/en/publication/07027-ipas-statistics/ The Government is working intensively to source additional accommodation for those most in need, including those who are found to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (23 Jul 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Ireland is currently providing accommodation to approximately 47,800 Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTPs) from Ukraine in State supported accommodation and over 31,300 International Protection applicants in IPAS accommodation. Prior to the war in Ukraine, there were 8,300 applicants for international protection in State supported accommodation. My Department is not presently...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (23 Jul 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for this question. A response will be provided directly to the Deputy in the coming days.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (23 Jul 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Ireland continues to experience an acute shortage of accommodation for people seeking international protection. The Government is committed to supporting people seeking international protection in Ireland and is considering all offers of accommodation, and availing of every possible vacancy within the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) system. Heatherfield Hospital is still...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (23 Jul 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: In March, the Government launched a Comprehensive Accommodation Strategy, to provide a core of State-owned International Protection accommodation and bring stability into the system. As part of that, an Expression of Interest (EOI) process seeking buildings for purchase or lease was launched at the end of May 2024. This would be for institutional buildings and converted commercial spaces. An...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (23 Jul 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am aware of the issues facing Northside Community Enterprises, and of the funding that they require to support the re-opening of the Before 5 Family Centre in Churchfield, Co. Cork. The Before 5 Family Centre is in an area of undersupply and of high need, so the ambition of Northside Community Enterprises to reopen this Centre, with an extended offer of full time, full year places for...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (23 Jul 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1945 to 1947, inclusive, together. Please note that the data requested by the Deputy is not available. While some contracts with accommodation providers may extend into 2025, payments are paid out on a monthly basis, up to a month in advance. Payments under grant agreements which extend into 2025 may vary dependent on performance.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (23 Jul 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Department is currently providing accommodation to over 31,000 people, of whom 5,323 had been granted permission to remain in Ireland as of the end of 10 July 2024 and, as such, are no longer in the IP process. At the same time, there is currently an ongoing shortfall of accommodation for newly arrived people applying for IP. Where a person progresses through the application and review...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (23 Jul 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Since the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine in February 2022, my Department continues to work as part of the whole-of-Government response with a focus on providing access to emergency temporary accommodation to those fleeing the conflict who request it, in line with Government policy. To date, over 108,500 beneficiaries of temporary protection (BOTPs) have arrived in Ireland and over 85,000...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Refugee Resettlement Programme (18 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Since the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine in February 2022, my Department continues to work as part of the whole-of-Government response with a focus on providing access to emergency temporary accommodation to those fleeing the conflict who request it, in line with Government policy. This supports them to make longer term independent arrangements if they decide to remain in Ireland for the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (18 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The individual case raised by the Deputy has been referred to Tusla for the attention of the appropriate staff. I am aware that eligibility for the State Pension (Contributory) is an area of genuine concern for foster carers. Last year, my Government colleague, the Minister for Social Protection oversaw the implementation of a series of landmark reforms to the State Pension system as...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Artificial Intelligence (18 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) is guided by the Interim Guidelines for Use of AI in the Public Service published by the Public Service Transformation Delivery Unit in the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer and by the National Cyber Security Centre on ICT policy and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Artificial Intelligence (18 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I wish to advise that officials in this Department, or any agency under its auspices, are not authorised to use Artificial Intelligence software in the preparation of responses to Parliamentary Questions, or in responses to any correspondence from outside the organisation. This is in line with advice from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released in June 2023.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (18 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 596, 597, 598 and 599 together. My Department is committed to supporting all those seeking international protection (IP) in Ireland and work is ongoing across the country to bring available accommodation into use to support our residents. As part of a whole of Government approach, the Department's International Protection Procurement Service (IPPS)...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (18 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Under the Parental Leave (Amendment) Act 2019, an employee who is a relevant parent in respect of a child under the age 12 is entitled to 26 weeks’ unpaid parental leave for each child. Where a child has a disability or long-term illness, the entitlement can continue until the child is 16. A relevant parent is a parent, an adoptive parent, or a person acting in ‘loco...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (18 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The availability of high-quality early learning and childcare (which includes school aged childcare) is a key Government priority. Considerable investment has taken place in recent years to improve the resourcing, quality and availability of early learning and childcare. In September 2022, I launched Together for Better, the new funding model for early learning and childcare (ELC). This new...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (18 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am aware of the issues facing Northside Community Enterprises, and of the funding that they require to support the re-opening of the Before 5 Family Centre in Churchfield, Co. Cork. The Before 5 Family Centre is in an area of undersupply and of high need, so the ambition of Northside Community Enterprises to reopen this Centre, with an extended offer of full time, full year places for...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (18 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Please see below the number of children with an ECCE registration in Cork City for programme calls 2020/2021 and 2023/2024. Please note there was a change of boundaries that resulted in 47 services with children registered for ECCE 2020/21 changing from Cork County to Cork City. For that reason, the numbers below are based on the boundaries at the time and the number based on the current...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (18 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth are currently running an online survey as part of the public consultation to inform the successor strategy to the National Strategy for Women and Girls. IPSOS B&A have been contracted to carry out the consultation for the Department and have helped design the online survey, which seeks to gather opinions and...