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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Social Enterprise Sector (17 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department is currently collating the information requested and a reply will issue directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Care Law Reporting Project (17 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Child care proceedings ordinarily occur otherwise than in public, and court reporting has an important role in highlighting for policy makers those issues that may impact on children as they arise in these proceedings. My Department renews the court reporting project periodically through a competitive tender process. The current iteration of court reporting began in November 2021 and will...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary)
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Chair for facilitating our meeting today. I thank the committee for making time to consider this Supplementary Estimate for the children, equality, disability, integration and youth Vote group. We need a Supplementary Estimate at this point principally due to the expectation that the Vote will breach its total allocation before the end of November 2024. The Supplementary...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary)
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank Deputy Coveney for his questions and kind remarks, and his recognition of the work that officials here and the many officials in my Department do every day for some of the most vulnerable people in our society. On the first point on IPAS processing times, I am not able to give the most up-to-date figures because the Minister, Deputy McEntee, deals with processing through the...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary)
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: There are a couple of hundred. We have 5,300 children in foster care, which is 90% of all children in care. I might get an official to give Deputy Coveney the exact figure. It is a couple of hundred.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary)
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is a significant driver of our costs. Tusla and the HSE have a protocol for children with a very significant disability who are now in the care of Tusla. From a budgetary point of view, there is a shared responsibility for meeting the needs of those children. That is a significant driver of costs too. As the Deputy knows, in 2024, we have taken significant steps to boost foster care,...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary)
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for his comments. I will make one comment. We know we are moving towards the end of the term of office of this Government. I put on record the value I see in the decision that was made by this Government to take disability out of the Department of Health and put it into our Department. It was made at the start of the Government's term of office. The change happened...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary)
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I see a very real value in child law reporting and I want to see that continue. One particular organisation has the contract at the moment. That was through a tendering process. We cannot just extend it for that organisation. There has to be a re-tendering process. I met the organisation in March and explained that was the situation. Between then and now, there were some delays in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (16 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department is progressing works for the accommodation centre, for people applying for IP, at Thornton Hall. An accelerated procurement process begun in May 2024 for Thornton Hall. Three competent facilities management operators were invited to submit proposals for the creation of suitable tented accommodation, and ancillary services. The successful tenderer would thereafter operate the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (16 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Over recent years, Ireland, alongside many other EU Member States and other countries, has experienced a very significant increase in people seeking International Protection (IP). The Government and this Department is making every effort to accommodate people seeking international protection against this backdrop of unprecedented demand. This is part of Irish and EU law and is also part of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Legal Cases (16 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department is currently collating the information requested and a reply will issue directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Data Protection (16 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department is committed to protecting the rights and privacy of all individuals in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU 2016/679). As a data controller, my Department is cognisant of its obligations and has implemented a range of measures to protect personal data including a suite of policies and procedures and a data breach management policy. The Department...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Official Travel (16 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Department is collating the necessary information and a substantive response will issue directly to the Deputy in the coming days.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Expenditure (16 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for his question. Below, in tabular form, is the information requested. There was no relevant expenditure in the years prior to 2017. The expenditure for 2024 covers the period to October 2024.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Consultations (16 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I wish to advise the Deputy that the Department for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has incurred the following amounts in consultancy fees in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024: Year Total Value 2014 €2,676.00 2015 €3,076.00 2016 €0.00 ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Advertising (16 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The amount spent by my Department on traditional and online advertising from 2016 to date can be seen below in tabular form. Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth Year Traditional & Online Advertising Spend 2024 € 1,239,891 2023 €...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (16 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy is seeking information in relation to an operational matter for Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. 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: Child and Family Agency (16 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy is seeking information in relation to an operational matter for Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. 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: Child Protection (16 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: As this relates to data collated by Tusla, the question has been forwarded to Tusla for direct reply to the Deputy. The Deputy may also be aware that the The National Review Panel (NRP) for the investigation of serious incidents including the deaths of children in care and known to the child protection service has published a 2023 Annual Report which provides a summary of causes of death...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (16 Oct 2024)

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