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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Third Level Education (6 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Under a Core Funding service agreement for programme year 2022/2023, in order for a service to be allocated an Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) Graduate Premium, the person in question must be a Lead Educator in an ELC room and/or the Manager of an ELC or a combined ELC and School Age Childcare (SAC) service and must hold an appropriate qualification (QQI Level 7 or higher) as per the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (6 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department’s funding model for early learning and childcare - Together for Better - brings together three major programmes, the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme, including the Access and Inclusion Model (AIM), the National Childcare Scheme (NCS) and the new Core Funding scheme. Other than the ECCE programme, these programmes are open to Tusla registered school-age...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (6 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: As this relates to Tusla operational matters, the question has been forwarded to Tusla for direct reply to the Deputy. 

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (6 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: As this relates to Tusla operational matters, the question has been forwarded to Tusla for direct reply to the Deputy. 

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (6 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department secured Dormant Accounts funding for the Initiative which was designed to run over the period 2021 to 2022.   Funding was made available to applicants from all 16 Education and Training Board functional areas.  The time limited nature of the initiative and the overall duration of funding available was advised to all successful applicants from the outset...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (6 Dec 2022)

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.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (6 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: This matter would be more appropriately addressed by my cabinet colleague, the Minister for Health. 

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Refugee Resettlement Programme (6 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 421 to 423, inclusive, together. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and the activation of the Temporary Protection Directive immediately afterwards, over 59,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Ukraine and have sought refuge here in Ireland. Approximately 47,000 of those are being provided with accommodation from the State....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Refugee Resettlement Programme (6 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: As the Deputy will be aware the Government made a commitment in the Programme for Government to end the current system of accommodation for International Protection applicants and replace it with a new model that is based on a not for profit approach. As part of this process, I published A White Paper to end Direct Provision and to Establish a new International Protection Support...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (1 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 of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (1 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 284 and 285 together. Under the Recast Reception Conditions Directive (SI 230 of 2018), the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) is legally required to provide material reception conditions in the form of accommodation and services to international protection applicants who seek it while their claim for international...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (1 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: Direct Provision System (1 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: As the Deputy will be aware the Government made a commitment in the Programme for Government to end the current system of accommodation for International Protection applicants and replace it with a new model that is based on a not for profit approach. As part of this process, I published A White Paper to end Direct Provision and to Establish a new International Protection Support Serviceon 26...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (1 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: As of 20 November 2022, there are 17,518 people accommodated by the Internatinal Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS). At this point in 2021, there were approximately 7,250 people in IPAS accommodation. In the context of this crisis, the State is availing of all offers of accommodation made, including temporary emergency accommodation in Killarney and in many other locations nationwide, in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Bodies (1 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: As the Deputy will be aware, the Government made a commitment in the Programme for Government to end the current system of accommodation for International Protection applicants and replace it with a new model that is based on a not for profit approach. As part of this process, I published A White Paper to end Direct Provision and to Establish a new International Protection Support Serviceon...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Contracts (1 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I wish to advise the Deputy that the Department for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth provides information in respect of contracts awarded without a competitive process on the annual 40/02 return to the Comptroller and Auditor General and to the Office of Government Procurement (OGP). The 2022 return will be submitted to the C&AG by 31st March 2023. In respect of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (1 Dec 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Deputy, the information sought is currently being collated by the Department. The response will issue as soon as the information is available.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (30 Nov 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department does not engage in procuring or contracting private houses and apartments which may impact on the residential sector. However, the properties may be offered as part of the Unoccupied Homes Call recently launched by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. The campaign aims to support the Government’s humanitarian response to the war in Ukraine. The new...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Meetings (30 Nov 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Minister Paschal Donohoe T.D. and I met with members of the local community in East Wall on Friday 25 November. The pressure to accommodate over 65,000 people since the start of this year has led to significant shortages, particularly for those seeking international protection. It has been necessary for my Department to avail of all offers of accommodation made, including the use of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (30 Nov 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Deputy, before the opening of any facility my Department engages with local representatives to provide information as soon as possible following the agreement of terms. While effort is made to notify public representatives and State agencies in advance of occupying a building, the emergency nature of the response required means that advance communications are not as comprehensive or as early...