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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Inquiries (26 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 274 and 276 together. I can advise that on 12th December 2022, I wrote to St John Ambulance to seek information about the publication of the report. St John Ambulance replied on 23rd December and confirmed that they had received a completed report from Dr Shannon. The Commissioner of St John Ambulance stated that the organisation was committed to publishing...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (26 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department is now accommodating over 74,000 refugees and applicants for International Protection in State-funded accommodation. The accommodation provided to people fleeing the war in Ukraine by my Department is temporary in its nature and given the number of people that are being accommodated it is not possible to develop tailored solutions for individuals or families. We understand and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Vacant Sites (25 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: While the Department is considering offers of buildings to be repurposed for accommodation, my officials can confirm that it does not posses a record of this property, that no offer has been made in respect of same and that it is not under consideration for use as international protection accommodation at this time. To provide some context as to the pressure the Department is under to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (25 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 129 and 130 together. There were 621 staff in my department at the end of December 2022. There are a number of units involved in matters related to integration, including all of the units working on International Protection, the Irish Refugee Protection Program and related policy units. As of 16 January, there are 17 vacancies across the units working...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (25 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department has engaged over 700 properties to provide accommodation for Ukrainian Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection. In line with my Department’s commitment to substantially clear the backlog at the end of 2022, the Department temporarily re-assigned staff from other parts of the Department to the payments team in December, doubling the size of the payments unit. The enlarged...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (25 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department is procuring and allocating accommodation in County Donegal for the purposes of providing shelter to those fleeing the war in Ukraine. My Department did respect a request from the Local Authority in Donegal to introduce a pause on allocating Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection in the aftermath of the tragedy in Creeslough with services focused...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (25 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: As of 22 January 2023, the number of Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection who have been accommodated by my Department is approximately 54,000. The information requested has been extracted from our systems, is available monthly and is outlined in tabular form below. BOTP Accommodation Contracts Procured by Month since October 2022. Month Number of Contracts Procured ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (25 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department respected a request from the Local Authority in Donegal to introduce a pause on accommodating Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection in the aftermath of the tragedy in Creeslough with services focused on the response at that time. The pause was lifted some weeks ago and officials in the procurement division within my Department are engaging with Donegal County Council in regard...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (25 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department has received approximately 300 offers of accommodation in Donegal. Some of these did not meet our criteria, which include amongst others the potential impact on the local private rental market. In the case of houses, only those which can comfortably accommodate a minimum of 15 people are considered- these are generally houses with a minimum of 6 bedrooms. Offers which rely...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (25 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: As of 22 January 2023, the number of Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection who have been accommodated by my Department is approximately 54,000. The information requested with regard to Donegal has been extracted from our systems and outlined in tabular form below. Donegal - BoTP Booked by Month/WEEK October No. of BoTP...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (25 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: There are currently 4,587 providers providing Early Learning and Care (ELC) and/or School Aged Childcare (SAC) that have signed an ELC/SAC funding agreement with my Department. Of these 494 offer SAC only, with the remaining 4,093 providing ELC only or ELC and SAC. 1,048 of the 4,093 services providing ELC have signed an ECCE funding agreement only i.e. they have neither signed a National...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (25 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: As of 23 January 2023, the number of Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection who have been accommodated by my Department is approximately 54,000. The information requested with regard to Dublin has been extracted from our systems and outlined in tabular form below. Beneficiary of Temporary Protection (BOTP) Accommodation ACCOMM NAME ACCOMMODATION TYPE LOCAL...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (25 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department has engaged over 700 properties to provide accommodation for Ukrainian Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection. In line with my Department’s commitment to substantially clear the backlog at the end of 2022, the Department temporarily re-assigned staff from other parts of the Department to the payments team in December, doubling the size of the payments unit. The enlarged...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (25 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department has engaged over 700 properties to provide accommodation for Ukrainian Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection. In line with my Department’s commitment to substantially clear the backlog at the end of 2022, the Department temporarily re-assigned staff from other parts of the Department to the payments team in December, doubling the size of the payments unit. The enlarged...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (25 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Deputy, as of 15 January 2023, there are 19,698 people accommodated in the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) system as a whole. This includes the National Reception Centre (466) and IPAS accommodation centres (6,887), temporary tented (81) and emergency (12,264) accommodation including those in City West. Of this total, 4,086 are children. My Department has accommodated...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (25 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department continues to review suitable accommodation where individual properties can provide a minimum of 15 bed spaces in line with standard space requirements. These properties cannot be amalgamated in order to reach the 15 spaces because we do not enter into commercial arrangements for individual private houses or apartments.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (24 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Government has approved the construction of 700 rapid build homes with the potential to house up to 2,800 individuals in family units. The rapid build homes will be constructed on state owned land.The OPW is leading the development of this accommodation in conjunction with my Department. The objective is to install 500 units by March/April 2023. All the sites will have roads, footpaths,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (24 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: AIM level 5 makes available funding to pre-school providers towards the cost of minor building alterations or the installation of specialist equipment or appliances, which may be required depending on an individual child’s needs. The amount spent on equipment in 2022 was €553,732.73. Information on delivery time is provided in the table below. The equipment is delivered to a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (24 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: At the end of October 2022, there were 5,810 children and young people in the care of the State. Of these, 5,171 (89%) were in foster care, 432 (7.4%) were in Residential Care, and 14 (0.2%) were in secure special care. While a majority of children in care are in foster care, there are some circumstances where foster care is not an option, including where a child has specific therapeutic...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (24 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: In July 2021, I launched a public consultation process as part of the review of the Equality Acts (Equal Status Acts 2000-2018 and the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015) to examine the functioning of the Acts and their effectiveness in combatting discrimination and promoting equality. The purpose of the review is to examine the operation of the Acts to assess their effectiveness with...