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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Advertising (30 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department spend on the Meta platforms (Facebook and Instagram) is below in tabular form for the time frames requested. 2021 2022 01/01/2023 - 27/11/2023 €68,828 €10,458 €37,838

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Advertising (30 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department's spend on advertisements with Google for the timeframes requested are below in tabular form. 2021 2022 01/01/2023 - 27/11/2023 €18,759 €24,207 €30,139

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Abuse (30 Nov 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 for Tusla. Consequently, I have referred the matter to Tusla, and requested that a direct response be provided to the Deputy.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Deputy Brendan Smith raised this earlier. The road map sets out short- and medium-term solutions. On the shorter term solutions, it is the international recruitment that we are undertaking right now to look to bring in those therapists, the OTs and speech and language therapists, to relocate them here to Ireland to staff-up teams like that. We are doing that along with the introduction of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: That is correct.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, and I are acutely aware of the huge pressures that are faced by our community disability network teams around the country and the impact this has on parents and, ultimately, children as well. That is why the issue has been prioritised by the Minister of State and I since responsibility for disability moved to my Department in March of this year. We...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: We are all acutely aware of the trauma of pregnancy loss. It is something that probably was not talked about enough in Irish society. Maybe that is why it has not gotten the degree of focus it needed. We wanted to change that. We felt that we needed to take a first step in undertaking that. As the Deputy said, we brought forward a detailed piece of research, which I think Deputies will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Disgraceful.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy has raised three questions which I will address separately below. In regards to the first, the regulation of ELC and SAC services is set out in the Child Care Act 1991 (Early Years Services) Regulations 2016. The link to which can be accessed here: www.gov.ie/en/publication/1a6d67-child-care-act-1991-early-y ears-services-regulations-2016/. In regards to the second, Tusla is the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Expenditure (29 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The table below details the amount of prompt payment interest paid out by my Department for goods and services per year from 2016 to date in 2023. The significant increase in 2022 and 2023 reflects the challenges associated with paying a large number of providers of emergency accommodation for Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection. A new Procure to Payment system has been developed and is...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Core Funding, which commenced in September 2022, is a grant to Early Learning and Care (ELC) and/or School Age Childcare (SAC) providers towards their operating costs. Its primary purpose is to improve pay and conditions in the sector as a whole and improve affordability for parents as well as ensuring a stable income to providers. All Partner Services that had an active Core Funding...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: EU Directives (29 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Deputy. The table below sets out the Directives which have yet to be transposed or where some provisions remain to be transposed. Directives to be fully transposed EU Deadline Estimated date of transposition Directive (EU) 2019/882 on the accessibility requirements for products and services 28 June 2022 End December 2023 ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Vaccination Programme (29 Nov 2023)

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

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I start by joining Deputies across the House in paying tribute to those affected by the brutal assault last Thursday afternoon, and, in particular, those who remain in hospital. Our thoughts are with them and with their families at this very difficult time. As Minister for children, I think in particular of the childcare worker wounded while defending the children in her care. It is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy. Those sorts of actions do not have any place in our society. The Government has been clear throughout our response to the needs of people newly arriving in this country. The Government engages with communities and provides information but it is not a question of consultation and it is not a question of a veto. No community or individual has a veto over who lives in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Recognition.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the committee for making time available today to consider the second Supplementary Estimate for the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. In October last, I sought and received €1.090 billion of additional funding by way of an initial Supplementary Estimate. The funding utilised the remaining balance available for non-core, or contingency,...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: When the transfer of functions took place, €2.4 billion of the HSE's budget, which it would formerly have received from the Department of Health, transferred to our Department thus creating very large additional responsibilities across our Department that covers all areas of specialised community-based disability services. When the final tally was done for the pay element required for...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The pay agreement was extremely necessary to address a very legitimate grievance of the differential between HSE workers and people who work in agencies, both section 56s and section 39s. The pay agreement has a big impact in Tusla as well. It has a cost of €20 million this year and a cost of €56 million in 2024. So our overall budget in disability in 2024 will be increasing...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: To put this in context, while we are looking for this financial reporting it is to understand exactly how the current money and the additional money that core represents-----