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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (12 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The total funding allocated to the organisation referred to by the Deputy is €1.4m A breakdown of all funding allocated by the Youth Affairs Unit of my Department the organisation in 2022 is detailed in the below table. Funding 2022 YSGS base funding salaries: €1,087,561 YSGS Safeguarding funding: ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (12 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 682 and 683 together. As requested, Deputy, please see below the number of adults and children remaining in direct provision centres in County Wicklow, broken down by centre, after their leave to remain has been granted. Number are as at 07/07/22 Direct Provision Centre Adults Children Grand Hotel 34 5...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (12 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Section 36 of the Child Care Act 1991 sets out the range of options where Tusla can place a child who is in care. One of these options is relative foster care, where the foster is a friend or relative of the child and who has been assessed and approved as a relative foster carer. The Child Care (Placement of Children with Relatives) Regulations, 1995, stipulates that the allowance...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (12 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: As outlined in the table below a total of 2,526 children at services in Cork City and a further 10,250 children at services in Cork County benefited from the Early Childhood Care and Education scheme (ECCE) in the 2021/2022 programme year - showing a slight increase on the previous programme year 2020/2021. The 2021/2022 programme year closed on 1 July and the 2022/2023 programme year will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (12 Jul 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: Disability Services (12 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Access and Inclusion Model (AIM) is a model of supports designed to ensure that children with disabilities can access the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Programme. Its goal 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...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (12 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy is referring to an operational matter for Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. I have therefore referred the matter to Tusla, and asked that a direct response be provided to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (12 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department is aware of the concerns raised and is considering the issues raised in the correspondence and will issue a response in due course. I will also be requesting that my officials meet with the corresponding organisation to discuss the matters further. The review which the correspondent references noted the considerable success of the NCS in reaching those most in need. As the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (12 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: On 26 June, the Government approved the proposal that 500 modular units would be built as part of its plans to address the need to expand the potential accommodation capacity for Ukrainian arrivals. Once in place, the modular houses will accommodate up to 2,000 people at urban locations across the country. My Department is finalising the site selection, with support from the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Process (12 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I have received a letter from Professor Ruskus and a response to him is being prepared. During the Report Stage debate on the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022, I referenced positive comments made by Professor Ruskus on Ireland’s legislation at the recent World Congress on Adult Capacity in Edinburgh. Professor Ruskus has since clarified that his remarks in...

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Senators will be aware that this is an omnibus Bill. It is part of the cross-Government domestic response to the crisis in Ukraine with legislation covering my Department and measures related to the work of the Department of Justice and the Department of Transport. The Bill also addresses matters relating to the Stardust inquiry. I thank Senators for facilitating this time-sensitive...

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank all of the Senators for their contributions. As this is a miscellaneous provisions Bill, we are dealing with a number of important matters and one incredibly sensitive matter. I thank all Senators, in terms of the Stardust tragedy and our efforts, albeit belated, as a State to provide justice to those who died and provide justice to their family members, for their contributions....

Irish Corporate Governance (Gender Balance) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank Deputy Higgins for bringing before the Dáil this Private Member's Bill to allow us to debate the important issue of gender balance in the leadership of Irish business and its contribution to good governance on the boards and governing councils of corporate bodies. I acknowledge the work undertaken by the Deputy in conjunction with the National Women's Council and the other...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (7 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for his response. I too had the opportunity to travel to that region in November of last year. I visited Jordan and the Al Za'atari refugee camp and I was very impressed by the generosity of the Jordanian Government. It is a country of 10 million people and 2 million people, 20% of that population, are refugees. They are provided with the same Covid-19 vaccinations and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (7 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for the invitation and I will certainly do my best to take it up. The Deputy has raised the issues in respect of ensuring that where we welcome Ukrainians, or indeed people from any crisis, that there is capacity here. Our response to Ukraine has been an emergency one and is a response to a war that none of us anticipated. My Department has not always got it right in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (7 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for the question and I am very excited that we are bringing forward a new, third, cohort of the Growing Up in Ireland, GUI, survey. GUI represents a significant and valuable State investment in high quality, policy-relevant data on the lives of children, young people and their families. To date, GUI has generated more than 90 reports and a multitude of findings. These...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (7 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is hard to overstate how important GUI is in terms of the scale of research. Interviewing of more than 11,000 people takes place. One group was 12, the other group was 22 and now there is this new group. This has been able to chart major developments. The first group would have been some of the first children to undertake the early childhood care and education, ECCE, programme and was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (7 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The overall cost of GUI for the next three years is just short of €14 million and €4 million of that will be dedicated towards that new cohort. The information will be publicised through a range of methods. There is an annual conference where research that has been undertaken on foot of the data is discussed. Each of the new reports is publicised widely so we have taken and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (7 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: In April a nationwide survey of capacity in early learning and childcare services was undertaken by city and county childcare committees. That survey was followed in May by the annual early years sector profile survey that is undertaken by Pobal. Approximately 89% of providers have already participated. Preliminary analysis of those data reveal vacancy rates for children under one and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (7 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The quickest response is through core funding, which, per child, provides three times the amount of funding for services that have rooms for children under the age of one as opposed to, say, a room for school-aged childcare. We recognise that it is more expensive to provide a baby room or a toddler room, so core funding will provide additional support for services to open and to sustain such...