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Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (14 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Under the new system, we are moving away from the ward of court-----

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (14 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: -----and we will have the new Decision Support Service. This envisages situations where people might come in initially with a limitation on their capacity. It might be somebody with a lack of capacity because of a condition that is deteriorating or has had a critical accident. In that situation, the director of the Decision Support Service is in a position to make a determination about...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (14 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am glad to be here to speak to the last Stage of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022. It is a key Bill that allows us finally to abolish the Victorian concept of wardship from Irish law and thus enhance our compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD. It will finally allow for the operation of the Decision...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (14 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: We had an extensive debate and the Deputy's colleague, Deputy Ward, raised a number of issues, particularly on the applicability of advanced healthcare directives, AHDs. We have since been able, following on from the amendments made in the Seanad, to broaden out the applicability of AHDs. They do not cover everybody, and if he was here I am sure Deputy Ward would make that point. In the...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am pleased to address the House on Second Stage of the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill. The primary purpose of this Bill is to ensure that Ireland has fully transposed Articles 6 and 9 of the EU Work-life Balance Directive, which are the final elements not already compatible with Irish law. The Bill also fulfils an important and long-standing commitment to extend the...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank Senators for their detailed consideration of and response to the draft Bill. I will do my best to address as many of the issues raised as possible. A wide range of issues were raised, many of which we can look at in more detail on Committee Stage. I will begin by addressing the points made by Senator Keogan regarding the heads of the Bill that were published in the summer. In the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: EU Data (14 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I would like to confirm that no fines have been charged to my Department, or agencies under the remit of my Department, since the start of the 33rd Dáil by the European Commission relating to cases for infringements of European Union law or failure to transpose EU law.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (14 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Sponsorship arrangement available under the National Childcare Scheme (NCS) makes special provision for vulnerable children. The NCS Sponsorship arrangement allows designated bodies to refer children to the Scheme where childcare is needed on child welfare, protection, family support or other specified grounds. Where a referral is made by a Sponsor body, the family will automatically...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (14 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: On 15th September, I launched Together for Better, the new funding model for early learning and childcare. This new funding model supports the delivery of early learning and childcare for the public good, for quality and affordability for children, parents and families as well as stability and sustainability for providers. Together for Better brings together three major programmes, the Early...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (14 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme is a universal two-year pre-school programme available to all children within the eligible age range. The programme runs from September to June each year and is aligned with the primary school calendar. There are currently in excess of 106,000 children enrolled on the ECCE programme The accompanying spreadsheet shows ECCE funding, by...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (14 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Deputy, as of 12 December 2022, there are 764 International Protection applicants currently accommodated in the Citywest Convention Centre. Of that number, 68 are under 18 years of age. As of today, there are almost 18,000 people accommodated in the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) accommodation system as a whole. At this point in 2021, there were approximately 7,250...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (14 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 192 and 193 together. My department has secured funding under the revised National Development Plan for the Building Blocks Capital Programme, which is being designed to meet current and long-term Early Learning and Childcare infrastructure needs. This Programme includes three Pillars: 1. A €9 million Improvement Grant to improve energy efficiency...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Programmes (14 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Following my announcement of the hot meals pilot scheme on the 22ndof November, my Department are collaborating with Pobal to recruit nine services as pilot sites. Given that a large number of settings already provide this service, the aim of this pilot is to provide an in-depth, qualitative test of the logistics and impact of hot meal provision across other types of setting. Additionally,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (14 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Government is investing significantly in the early learning and childcare sector and there is an ambitious new funding model being introduced to improve stability and sustainability for providers. There are supports, financial and otherwise, available to services who need them. On 15th September, I launched Together for Better, the new funding model for early learning and childcare....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Social Media (14 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Social Media Advertising Spend for Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth 2021/2022 Year Platform Spend (€) 2022 Facebook 10,458 LinkedIn 22,259 Twitter 2,412 Total 35,129 ...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: When this Government took office it was made clear that delivery on housing would be our number one priority. At a time of global upheaval, be that with Covid, the cost-of-living pressures, or the war in Ukraine, the Government has sought to deliver on that, led by the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. We did not, nor do we,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (13 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: On 6 July 2018, Ireland adopted the European Communities (Reception Conditions) Regulations 2018(S.I. 231 of 2018) through which it transposed the recast Reception Conditions Directive into domestic law. The Regulations put reception conditions for International Protection on a statutory footing and place an obligation on the State to provide accommodation for any person who seeks...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (13 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Since my appointment as Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, the remit of the Department has been broadened with the inclusion of a number of very important new policy areas including equality, integration and disability. Significant work has been completed across all policy areas since 2020 and, with the publication of my Department’s Statement of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Abuse (13 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Charities Regulatory Authority, under the aegis of the Department of Rural and Community Development, is Ireland's statutory regulator for charitable organisations, including St John Ambulance. My Department does not have a role in the governance of St John Ambulance. St John Ambulance commissioned a review of historical allegations of abuse within the organisation. Dr Geoffrey Shannon...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (13 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine on 24 February, and the invoking of the temporary protection Directive by the European Union shortly afterwards, my Department has worked intensively as part of the cross-governmental response to the Ukraine crisis. The operational challenges brought about by responding to the conflict are significant. Our country has never experienced an influx...