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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for his 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: International Protection (7 Feb 2024)

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

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am acutely aware of the urgency to open the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme and I will do so within this quarter. I am also very conscious that many potential applicants to the Scheme are very elderly, and in that regard I made provision in the underpinning legislation for the Scheme that priority may be given to an application depending on the applicant’s circumstances,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Pobal Annual Early Years Sector Profile (AEYSP) provides a detailed overview of the Early Learning and Care (ELC) and School-Age Childcare (SAC) sector in Ireland, including the numbers of children in receipt of state subsidies, information on ELC and SAC fees, staff wages, qualifications and turnover. In December 2023, my Department launched the Early Learning and Childcare Data website,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Ensuring high-quality early learning and childcare is affordable and accessible to all children and, in particular, children from vulnerable backgrounds, is a key priority for Government. The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration & Youth funds 30 City/County Childcare Committees which provide support and assist families and early learning and childcare...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Ireland has responded to the largest displacement of people on the European continent since the Second World War. Since February 2022, as part of the Whole of Government response the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has worked extensively to support over 104,000 people who have sought temporary protection in Ireland in fleeing the war in Ukraine, over 80%...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Official Travel (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The information requested by the Deputy is being compiled and will issue to him very shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: In respect of the State’s humanitarian response to the Ukrainian crisis, the Government developed a Rapid Build Housing Programme to provide accommodation for families fleeing the war in Ukraine. The programme aims to provide short-term accommodation for up to 2,800 Ukrainian Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection at several sites across Ireland. Work has been completed on the first...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Providers that had an active Core Funding Contract during the 2022/2023 Programme Year must provide validated Financial Returns as per their Core Funding Partner Service Funding Agreement. Following constructive engagement with members and nominees of the Early Learning and Childcare Stakeholder Forum (ELCSF), including Childhood Services Ireland (CSI), Childminding Ireland, Early...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Local Authorities (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Individual Local Authorities are actively engaged in the recruitment process for the Local Authority Integration Teams (LAITs). While recruitment and on-boarding is still active across the majority of the Local Authorities, it is predicted that there will be a certain amount of personnel movement. As a result, which Local Authorities which have their teams fully in place is not static....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Providers that had an active Core Funding Contract during the 2022/2023 Programme Year must provide validated Financial Returns as per their Core Funding Partner Service Funding Agreement. Following constructive engagement with members and nominees of the Early Learning and Childcare Stakeholder Forum (ELCSF), including Childhood Services Ireland (CSI), Childminding Ireland, Early...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Advertising (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The total spend on advertising for my Department from 2016 to 2023, including a breakdown on traditional and digital media spend, can be seen below in tabular form. Year Online Advertising Traditional Advertising Grand Total 2023 € 293,363 € 822,971 € ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Contracts (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The information requested is being collated by my Department, and a reply will issue to the Deputy directly as soon as it is completed.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Expenditure (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department is preparing a response and will contact the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Expenditure (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Officials in my Department are currently compiling the information as requested by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The figures supplied by the scheme administrator Pobal in the table below show the percentage of services who only have an ECCE budget approval, the percentage of services who have both an ECCE and NCS budget approval and the percentage of services that only have an NCS approved budget for the programme years 2022/23 and 2023/24. While some ELC services are only contracted with my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for her 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: Early Childhood Care and Education (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: 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. With the addition of the Core Funding Scheme in 2022, services providing ECCE who are also signed up to Core Funding receive a minimum of €79.20 per child per week in capitation. This figure can rise to a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 454 and 456 together. I thank the Deputy for his question. A response will issue to the Deputy in the coming days.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Since the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine in February 2022, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) 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. To date, over 100,000 beneficiaries of temporary protection (BOTPs) have...