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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Flexible Work Practices (9 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department is currently working in line with Government COVID-19 guidance, which provides for home working to continue where possible. A central policy framework for Blended Working in the Civil Service will be finalised in conjunction with employee representatives over the coming months. This framework will inform the development of organisation level blended working policies...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (9 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: On 28 February last, with the dissolution of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, my Department became the data controller for all the personal data contained in the records and databases that transferred from the Commission. Former residents of Mother and Baby Homes including the former residents of Bessborrough can make a Subject Access Request (SAR) to my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Flexible Work Practices (9 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department is currently working in line with Government COVID-19 guidance, which provides for home working to continue where possible. A central policy framework for Blended Working in the Civil Service will be finalised in conjunction with employee representatives over the coming months. This framework will inform the development of organisation level blended working policies tailored to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Budgets (9 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: Every year since 2013, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (previously Department of Children and Youth) has provided Local Authorities with the opportunity to apply for funding for the refurbishment or development of new and existing play facilities for children and young people through DCEDIY Play and Recreation Capital Grant Scheme. Under...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (9 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: Inspections, both by HIQA and Tusla’s Practice Assurance and Service Improvement team, identify effective service delivery, areas where improvement is required and emerging risks within services. The recently published HIQA inspection report of Tusla Child Protection and Welfare Services in Corkincluded findings that: - The service was not compliant with any of the standards inspected...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Reviews (9 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I have asked officials in my Department to undertake a review of the Equality Acts (Equal Status Acts 2000-2018 and the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015) which will examine the functioning of the Acts and their effectiveness in combatting discrimination and promoting equality. The review will include the existing Programme for Government commitments on the introduction of a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Government Communications (9 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: ICT services are provided to the Department by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO). The provision of ICT security is part of that service.  The Department engages closely with the OGCIO on the issue of cyber security, who in turn engage with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to ensure best practice is followed as it relates to all aspects of cyber...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Government Communications (9 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I can confirm that I am not aware of any instance of 'hacking' or any unauthorised access to or unauthorised retrieval of information from my personal phone. I have on occasion used my personal phone to communicate with other Government Ministers via call and text message.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (9 Sep 2021)

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: Children in Care (9 Sep 2021)

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: Government Communications (9 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I can confirm that neither myself, my special advisers nor my senior officials use the services described on Departmental devices to communicate. I have used one of the named services to communicate with other Green Party TDs on party matters on my personal phone. 

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence (9 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: Since its formation, this Government has made clear that tackling domestic, sexual and gender-based violence is a priority. The Programme for Government contains a commitment to investigate the provision of paid leave and social protection provision to victims of domestic violence with a view to establishing a statutory entitlement to paid domestic violence leave. My Department is currently...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Carer's Leave (9 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: Section 6 of the Carer's Leave Act 2001 provides that employees with at least one year's continuous service are entitled to take up to 104 weeks of carer's leave to enable them to provide full-time care and attention to a person who is in need of such care.   The 2001 Act provides, as part of its definition of employee, 'a person of any age, who has entered into or works under (or,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (9 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: Funding for the provision of youth services is administered on behalf of my Department by the Education and Training Boards, which allocate funding for local youth clubs and services via applications to the UBU Your Place Your Space the Local Youth Club Grant schemes. Funding of almost €42 million will be made available under UBU Your Place This Space in 2021 while over...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (9 Sep 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department administers an annual capital funding programme, under which early learning and care and school aged childcare services which are registered with Tulsa can access capital funding.  The purpose or target of the funding is determined on an annual basis having regard to the needs of children, families and service providers and Departmental priorities. There is...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Prison Service (27 Jul 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: All young people under the age of 18 detained on remand or sentenced to a period of detention by the Courts are detained in Oberstown Children Detention Campus. The operational costs for the ongoing running of Oberstown (excluding pension and capital costs) in 2020 was €21.18 million. The Certificate applicable in 2020 and issued by the Minister under Sections 195 and 196 of the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (27 Jul 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: The National Childcare Scheme represents the first ever statutory entitlement to early learning and childcare in Ireland, and has streamlined the multiple targeted support schemes previously available. In replacing the legacy schemes, the NCS entails a fundamental shift away from subsidies grounded in medical card and social protection entitlements, and towards a comprehensive and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Reports (27 Jul 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1191 and 1192 together. I wish to confirm to the Deputy that, in 2020 and to date in 2021, a total of 259 programme refugees  have been resettled to Ireland. Due to Covid-19, the number of refugees resettled globally in 2020 was the lowest in two decades. An Irish selection mission in Lebanon in March was interrupted due to the pandemic, and there were no...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (27 Jul 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1193 and 1194 together. I wish to confirm the following to the Deputy in relation to the operation of Community Sponsorship Ireland since its establishment: The Irish State launched a pilot Community Sponsorship Ireland model in December 2018 as an alternative way to resettle refugees in Ireland. Following this successful pilot, the Irish Government launched...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (27 Jul 2021)

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.