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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (19 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Deputy, the International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) can confirm that no minor international protection applicant is accommodated in the same room as an adult that is not their parent or guardian. This is in line with IPAS accommodation and the relevant child safeguarding protocols. I trust this information clarifies the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (19 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: In response to the significant increase in demand for Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) supports arising from the war in Ukraine, the EU adopted emergency measures. This involved an extension of the overall 2014-2020 AMIF programme, and the option for Member States to re-purpose unused funds under any heading, to be used to provide additional supports to organisations involved in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (19 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The goal of the Access and Inclusion Model is to empower pre-school providers to deliver an inclusive pre-school experience, ensuring that every eligible child can meaningfully participate in the ECCE Programme and reap the benefits of high quality early learning and care. AIM supports are grouped into universal or targeted. Universal supports are designed to create a more inclusive culture...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (19 Oct 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...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Correspondence (18 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: As the Deputy may be aware, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, 2018, we cannot comment on individual cases.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (18 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Tusla Strategic Plan on Foster Care Services 2022 - 2025 was approved by the Tusla Board on the 30thof September 2022. The Plan was subsequently circulated to all Foster Carers and to members of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. I can inform the Deputy that on the 12thOctober 2022 Tusla published the Plan on its website.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (18 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Last month, I was pleased to announce a €10m Capital Grant for the Early Learning and Childcare Sector. The Building Blocks - Improvement Grant is part of a wider Building Blocks Capital Programme for Early Learning and Childcare under the National Development Plan. Grants will range from €35,000 to €75,000 across two separate strands: Green Energy and Retrofit. The Green...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (18 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Hive is part of the new Early Years Platform which Pobal uses to administer various Early Learning and Childcare Schemes. It is a self-service portal which has been designed to meet the current and future needs of providers in an accessible and intuitive manner. On an annual basis, up to 200,000 children are registered on the Early Years Platform for the NCS and ECCE. The Early...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (18 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Department conducted a Privacy Impact Assessment on the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) scheme in December 2016. This PIA was undertaken by a third party - Sytorus. The PIA is a process used to protect privacy by design when an organisation starts or acquires a new business, implements a new process, or launches a new product. The Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) is an...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (18 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: On 15 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. Together for Better brings together three major programmes, the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Cybersecurity Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: As of December 2019, the Office of the Chief Government Information Officer (OGCIO) provide my Department with its core ICT services. The provision of ICT security is part of that service, which implements a security-by-design and defence-in-depth approach to cyber security. Therefore it is not possible to provide the Deputy with a figure specifically relating to spend on cyber security...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Cybersecurity Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: As of December 2019, the Office of the Chief Government Information Officer (OGCIO) provide my Department with its core ICT services and supports including the provision of our main infrastructure and data storage. My department does not measure the portion of data it holds in the cloud verses on premise, therefore  it is not possible to provide the Deputy with a proportionate...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (18 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Government is committed to achieving its vision of a safe, fair and inclusive Ireland where people are supported to flourish and to live inclusive, healthy and fulfilling lives, whatever their sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or sex characteristics. Ireland’s first National LGBTI+ Inclusion Strategy 2019-2022, published in November 2019, is the primary policy...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (18 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Early Childhood Care and Education Programme (ECCE) is a universal free two-year pre-school programme available to all children within the eligible age range. As there is no cost to the parent for a place on this Programme, the elements of Budget 2023 dealing directly with reducing parental early learning and care costs focus on the National Childcare Scheme (NCS). I secured...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ministerial Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I have appointed two Special Advisers in my Department, Mr Eoin Wilson and Mr Tom Sheppard. The appointments were made in accordance with Instructions for Ministerial Appointments as published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. These instructions set specific conditions to be met in respect of such appointments including salaries to be applied. Details can be found on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Reviews (18 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 560 and 561 together. The National Action Plan for Childminding 2021-2028 sets out a plan for extending State support and regulation to childminding on a phased basis over the coming years. The overall objective of the Action Plan is to improve access to high quality and affordable early learning and care and school-age childcare through childminding. The...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: There have been significant advances in the provision of family leaves in recent years to support parents to play a greater role in their children's early development. Under the Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act 2019 (as amended), working parents are entitled to seven weeks of paid parent’s leave for each relevant parent, to be taken in the first two years after the birth or...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (18 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme provides universal, free pre-school to children in the eligible age range of 2 years and 8 months to 5 years and 6 months. The child referred to was eligible for ECCE in September 2020 and for a second year in September 2021. The upper age limit of 5 years and 6 months for ECCE was set in consultation with the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (18 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 564 and 574 together. Deputy, the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) does not collate the number of transfers in the manner requested. Transfers between different International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) accommodation centres take place for a wide variety of reasons. For example, there are weekly transfers from the National...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (18 Oct 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...