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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (28 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: Currently, under Data Protection Regulations, a data controller who is not a health practitioner is required to consult with an appropriate health practitioner before supplying any health data to the data subject concerned. My Department, as a data controller, must apply the Regulations when records contain health data. The Regulations do not enable the exercise of any discretion by the data...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (28 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: The UBU Your Place Your Space scheme provides funding to youth organisations supporting disadvantaged, marginalised and vulnerable young people between the age 10 and 24. The scheme focuses on improving the personal and social development outcomes of those engaged. Funding for the provision of targeted youth services is administered on behalf of my Department by the Education and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (28 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: The institution to which the Deputy refers is not one the institutions examined by the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters). I understand that St. Kyran's was an Industrial School for Junior Boys, located in Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow and was included in the Schedule of eligible institutions for the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002. The...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Expenditure (28 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I wish to inform the Deputy with regard to PQ 46201, which seeks further information subsequent to PQ 43233/21, staff identify their learning and development needs as part of the annual process relating to their performance management development system (PMDS). This approach is in line with civil service practice and would have been followed with regard to the selection of the courses...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Budgets (28 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: Better Start, which is located within Pobal, was established in 2014 by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) in association with the Department of Education to co-ordinate the work of existing State-funded supports for quality in early learning and care settings. The Better Start team of specialists work across three areas: the Access and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (28 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I wish to inform that Deputy that my officials have asked Tusla to respond to you directly on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (28 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I wish to inform the Deputy that my officials have asked Tusla to respond to you directly on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (28 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: Tusla has responsibility for the care and protection of victims of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (DSGBV). Tusla provides funding to some 60 services throughout Ireland that work with and support survivors of DSGBV. I understand that the service in question is in receipt of funding from Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, for the provision of counselling services for children. ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (28 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I recognise that schools form an integral part of integration into the community for school-aged children residing in accommodation provided by the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) within my Department. However, the location of IPAS accommodation provided to newly arrived families seeking international protection is both demand-led and subject to the availability of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (28 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I wish to inform the Deputy that my officials have asked Tusla to respond to you directly on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (28 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I wish to inform the Deputy that my officials have asked Tusla to respond to you directly on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Communications (28 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: The exemption to the turnover rule for the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme for Early Learning and Care and School Age Childcare employers has been in place since the scheme began in 2020 and has allowed access to important financial supports in a context of increased operating costs due to public health guidance and reduced demand due to Covid-19. Within the sector, EWSS is estimated to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (28 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Programme is a universal free two-year preschool programme available to all children within the eligible age range. There are currently no plans to change the number of entry dates into the ECCE programme. The minimum eligibility age of 2 years and 8 months for the ECCE programme was chosen based on national experience and a review of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (28 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: Significant additional financial supports have been made available to early learning and childcare services throughout the Covid-19 pandemic to ensure that they can remain sustainable and to assist in defraying the additional costs of operating under new public health requirements, including the operation of ‘play pods’. In particular, the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the committee for this opportunity to talk to it about the general scheme of the birth information and tracing Bill. I am grateful that the committee has prioritised this legislation in its programme of work. I think we all share a wish to urgently address this issue, and it is my hope that we can all work together to achieve that in the interests of the people affected. I thank...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy. I have met a wide range of groups and individuals in advance of the publication of the heads of the Bill and particularly since they were published. I have met a number of the campaigning groups in this area. I have met the Adoption Rights Alliance, Aitheantas, Tusla and the Adoption Authority of Ireland. Last month, I visited Tuam, where I met four of the groups...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I will do my best. I will come back to some of the questions afterwards because some of them were really important. The first point the Senator raised was a really difficult one. Inasmuch as she has spoken to mothers who very much see themselves as "birth mothers", I have engaged with mothers who feel the term "birth mother" reduces them simply to individuals who gave birth, the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I will come back to the issues of the information session, the specialised registry and the supports for the illegal birth registrations group. Maybe Senator McGreehan can ask me about them later.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is important to remember that the central purpose of the information meeting is to ensure that the constitutional privacy rights of a parent or a mother who indicated a no-contact preference are respected. It only applies to that group who have clearly indicated a no-contact preference. The purpose of the meeting is to ensure that the no-contact preference is respectfully conveyed to the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for his questions. As I said, the final draft of the Bill will be different. These are the heads of the Bill and there will be improvements. The final draft of the Bill will provide for the provision of counselling supports for those who were adopted, those subjected to illegal birth registration and those mothers and parents who seek to use the processes provided for in...