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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Due to continuing downward trends in BOTPs seeking accommodation from the State coupled with increases in BOTPs leaving State provided accommodation to seek more independent living, vacancies have arisen in my Department’s portfolio of commercial BOTP accommodation. These vacancy numbers change daily in response to moves in and out of accommodation and while they can appear significant...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1108 and 1110 together. The Programme for Government contains a number of commitments for early learning and childcare, including reforming the system to create one that brings together the best of community and private provision and the development of a new funding model for affordable, accessible, sustainable and high quality early learning and childcare....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1109, 1112 and 1113 together. Tusla, the independent statutory regulator for early years services, including ELC and SAC services, is responsible for maintaining the register of services under the Child Care Act 1991. Where an ELC or SAC service ceases operations, the registered provider is required by law to advise Tusla of this and the service will then be...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Tusla is the independent statutory regulator for early years services, including Early Learning and Care (ELC) and School Age Childcare (SAC) services, and is responsible for maintaining the register of services under the Child Care Act 1991. Where an ELC or SAC service ceases operations, the registered provider is required by law to advise Tusla of this within 28 days of ceasing operation...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for his question. I am advised by my officials that a deferred response in relation to PQ Ref: 8747/24 was issued to the Deputy on 12th March 2024. The matters raised in PQ Ref: 11832/24 were addressed in this response. I trust this information clarifies the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for his question. I am advised by my officials that a deferred response in relation to PQ Ref: 8805/24 was issued to the Deputy on 7th March 2024. The matters raised in PQ Ref: 11833/24 were addressed in this response. I trust this information clarifies the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1119 and 1121 together. As the Deputy is aware, following agreement by the Birth Information and Tracing Act Implementation Group, a DNA Working Group was established in March 2023. The Group, which comprises of representation from my Department, the Adoption Authority of Ireland (AAI) and the Child and Family Agency, Tusla has been tasked with considering...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 enshrines in law the right to identity information for all those who are adopted, nursed out, boarded out, subject to an illegal birth registration, or resided in a mother and baby or county home institution as a child. It also allows for access to information by a child of a relevant person where their parent has died, and for access by the next of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The First 5 Implementation Plan (2023-2025) sets out additional measures that will allow parents to spend the whole of their baby’s first year in the home through a combination of paid family leave schemes by 2028. This includes increasing Parent’s Leave and Benefit for each parent from seven weeks to nine weeks by August 2024. The intention of this leave is to enable parents to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Housing Provision (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1124 and 1123 together. In relation to proposed locations for International Applicants (IP) or Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTP), without an Eircode for specific locations my Department is unable to provide any information. For example the title of locations may be referred to by different names within the local community where it is situated....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Refugee Resettlement Programme (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for this question. A response will be provided directly to the Deputy in the coming days. The Deputy may wish to be aware that the Community Engagement Team has been established within my Department which stands ready to respond to queries of this nature, and they may be contacted directly at community@equality.gov.ie.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Properties (20 Mar 2024)

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

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible. The Deputy will likely be aware that the industrial action by certain Forsa grades in the HSE has been suspended. The HSE has indicated that they have recommenced issuing replies to questions but there is a significant backlog of PQs and Reps to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Due to continuing downward trends in beneficiaries of temporary protection (BOTPs) seeking accommodation from the State coupled with increases in BOTPs leaving State provided accommodation to seek more independent living, vacancies have arisen in my Department’s portfolio of commercial accommodation. These vacancies are notified by providers and the numbers change daily in response to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Due to continuing downward trends in BOTPs seeking accommodation from the State coupled with increases in BOTPs leaving State provided accommodation to seek more independent living, vacancies have arisen in my Department’s portfolio of commercial BOTP accommodation. These vacancy numbers change daily in response to moves in and out of accommodation and while they can appear significant...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1140, 1188 and 1195 together. On Saturday 16th March, the Department offered alternative shelter to all International Protection (IP) applicants camped at Mount Street. All those who accepted the offer were provided with tented accommodation at a site in Crooksling. The site at Mount Street was cleared over the weekend in cooperation with Dublin City...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The total cost to implement a 10% increase across the board for B06 (Youth Organisations and Services) would be €7,794,801 in current funding as outlined in the following table. B06 Funding (Current) for Youth Organisations and Services (Part funded by the National Lottery. Grant SchemeFunding provided under B06 Funding (Current) for Youth Organisations and Services...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1144 to 1146, inclusive, together. The allocations of current funding provided under the B06 subhead (Youth Organisations and Services) to Funded Organisations in the Ballymun/Finglas area under the UBU Your Place Your Space funding scheme are outlined in the following table: Funded Organisation 2020 UBU YPYS Funding Allocation ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I can inform the Deputy that Pobal, in their role as scheme administrator, have recently made my Department aware of a sudden closure of a private service in Balbriggan, the Toddle In, who provides full day care, part time and sessional care to children between the ages of 0-6 years and also provides School-Age Childcare (SAC) Pobal informed my Department that the provider had only...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes made significant findings in relation to the failings of the State and religious bodies, who together ran Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. The Government believes all relevant parties have a collective responsibility to respond to the legacy of these institutions. In May 2023 the Government approved my proposal to...