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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (24 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Early Learning and Care (ELC) and School-Age Childcare (SAC) services differ considerably in terms of size, service offering, age of children cared for, opening hours, and so on. These factors influence the cost of delivery, and mean it is not possible to define an average service. For the purposes of this answer my officials have drawn on data provided by services as part of their...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Priorities (24 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Programme for Government committed to developing a successor to the Migrant Integration Strategy, which concluded in 2021. My Department is currently developing a new national strategy which will build on the momentum of its predecessor and address ongoing and emerging needs in supporting and promoting migrant integration in Ireland. It is intended to publish the new strategy in Q2 2025....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (24 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Investment in Early Learning and Care (ELC) and School Aged Childcare (SAC) is at unprecedented high levels. This investment provides for improved affordability for parents, capacity growth within the sector and provides additional supports for children and families who are experiencing disadvantage. Budget 2025 continues to augment this investment with funding amounting to €1.37...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Priorities (24 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Addressing inequalities affecting children requires a cross government response. That said my Department has taken steps to contribute to the addressing such inequalities. Young Ireland, the National Policy Framework for Children and Young People, which I launched in November last year, envisions an Ireland which fully respects and realises the rights of all children and young people. The...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Priorities (24 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 310, 313 and 314 together. As the Deputy is aware, statutory and operational responsibility for the delivery of child protection and welfare services is a matter for Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. Tusla and An Garda Síochána are the two agencies in the state with statutory responsibility for assessing (Tusla) and investigating (An Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (24 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Children's rights, and their enjoyment of these rights, are of paramount importance to me, and indeed across Government. The importance of child-centred policies and protections represent a core value in society where children can flourish and see a brighter future. Ireland remains firmly committed to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), a major...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (24 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Tusla has a statutory duty under the Child Care Act 1991 to promote the welfare of children who are not receiving adequate care and protection. In doing so, it relies heavily on individuals reporting concerns about children, in accordance with Children First: National Guidance for the Protection and Welfare of Children 2017 and the Children First Act, 2015. Under the Children First Act,...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 12: In page 6, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “Offences 10. (1) An information source or a person acting on behalf of an information source who, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, knowingly in relation to a relevant record other than a relevant record certified in accordance with section 9(6)— (a) conceals, destroys,...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 13: In page 6, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “Service of notice 11. (1) Subject to subsection (3), a notice under section 9(2) to be served on or given to a person shall be addressed to the person concerned by name and may be so served on or given to the person in one of the following ways: (a) by delivering it in person; (b) by...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 14: In page 6, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “Amendment of Act of 1986 12. Section 4(1) of the Act of 1986 is amended by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (f): “(fa) the performance of functions assigned to the Director under Part 3 of the Maternity Protection, Employment Equality and Preservation of...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 15: In page 3, line 8, after “Oireachtas;” to insert the following: “to amend the Employment Equality Act 1998; to amend the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005; to provide for the preservation, in the public interest, of certain records relating to certain institutions and bodies;”.

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: In the situations the Deputy describes which have pertained previously in respect of the records of laundries, Dr. McAleese was told there were no records and then they were found in the abandoned Donnybrook Magdalen laundry. I suppose the difference between then and what will pertain after this legislation is that it will now be a criminal offence. It will be a criminal offence to leave...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 10: In page 6, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “Power to designate institution, relevant body, relevant record 8. (1) The Minister may, where it is necessary and proportionate for the purposes of this Part to do so, by order designate an institution as an institution for the purposes of paragraph (f) of the definition of...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 11: In page 6, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “Duty to preserve and furnish statement of relevant records 9. (1) An information source shall, subject to subsections (8) and (11), in respect of a relevant record in his or her possession— (a) retain the relevant record, (b) maintain the relevant record, and (c) where the relevant...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: First of all, I thank the Deputies for their support for this amendment and for their engagement with me over recent weeks when we were able to provide briefings on what we are doing here and the reason for the speed at which we are doing it, which I acknowledge. I also thank Dr. Maeve O'Rourke, Dr. Mark Coen and the special advocate for survivors, Ms Patricia Carey, for their engagement...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy referenced it earlier in the process, and I thank him for bringing it forward. I will make a broader point and a specific point on this particular issue. The campaign to extend to women who were ill the ability to postpone maternity leave was first introduced by the Irish Cancer Society. It was originally for women who were experiencing cancer during maternity leave. That is a...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 2: In page 3, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “Expenses 2. The expenses incurred by the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality, Integration and Youth in the administration of this Act shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, be paid out of monies...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 3: In page 5, to delete lines 17 to 20 and substitute the following: “(10) An employee to whom subsection (1) of section 14B and subsection (1) apply shall not be entitled to postpone maternity leave under section 14B and this section in respect of the same birth.”.

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 4: In page 5, to delete lines 23 and 24 and substitute the following: “ ‘maternity leave’ includes, where applicable, a further period of maternity leave referred to in section 8, section 13(2), or section 13B;”.

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 5: In page 5, to delete lines 27 and 28.