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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Staff (31 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Due to the emergency nature of the war in Ukraine and the sudden influx into Ireland of people fleeing Ukraine, the Department established a new division. This was initially resourced by the internal re-deployment of staff and staff that were assigned temporarily from other Departments. Given the uncertain nature of the situation initially and the significant amount of movement of staff...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Transport Policy (31 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Deputy, as of 22 January 2023, there are over 19,800 people accommodated in the IPAS accommodation system as a whole. This includes the National Reception Centre and IPAS accommodation centres, City West transit hub and emergency accommodation locations nationwide. At this point in 2022, there were approximately 7,500 persons in IPAS accommodation. In regard to your query, following...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (31 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Government is committed to delivering a humanitarian response to welcome people seeking protection in Ireland as part of the European Union's overall response. The scale of response to this crisis has been unprecedented and Irish people have displayed a commendable level of generosity in their support and pledges of accommodation. To date, in excess of 6,300 Beneficiaries of Temporary...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (31 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: AWAITING REPLY FROM DEPARTMENT

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Refugee Resettlement Programme (31 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department is now accommodating over 74,000 refugees and applicants for International Protection in State-funded accommodation. The information requested in regard to counties and Dublin Local Authority Areas has been extracted from our systems and outlined in tabular form below. Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTPs) Rest of Ireland Dublin ...

Parental Bereavement Leave (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. I do not believe anyone in this House claims, and I know I certainly do not, complete ownership of compassion. I completely recognise the issues as well as the need for those raised by the Deputies to be addressed. The Deputies have said that this issue is provided for by the vast majority of employers. However, their concern, which is a...

Parental Bereavement Leave (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That" and substitute the following: "Dáil Éireann resolves that the Parental Bereavement Leave (Amendment) Bill 2021 be deemed to be read a second time this day 12 months, to allow for time to further examine the issues raised in the Bill alongside existing work to examine the workplace impact of pregnancy loss and miscarriage...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: As the Deputy knows, the State is accommodating 54,000 Ukrainians right now. Of those, 46,000 are in hotels and guesthouses. That is more than 700 individual contracts. I recognise that in the latter half of last year a backlog grew in regard to prompt payment. We put in additional resources to address that. We shrunk the backlog. We did not entirely clear it. We will work with the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I would advise them to contact the local authority. The local authorities are now doing the vacant homes call. That is the route they should take.

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I am deeply aware of the disappointment and frustration caused to applicants receiving a notification indicating that there will be a delay in the compilation and release of their information. Information and Tracing services, as provided for under the Act, opened to applications on 03 October 2022. As of Monday 23 January, a total of 6,474 applications for information have been...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (26 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. Of this total, 4,086 are children. The Department has accommodated over 15,000 International Protection Applicants (IPAs) in 2022. Currently, the number of new arrivals each day remains very high. In the first two weeks of 2023 alone, more than...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (26 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: 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...