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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Resource Centres (24 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Firstly, I would like to thank the Deputy for sharing this note from the Family Resource Centre Employers Action Group. I am aware of many of their concerns from my engagement with the Family Resource Centre National Forum. My Department allocates core funding for the Family Resource Centre (FRC) Programme via Tusla, which amounts to some €24 million in 2024. At the end of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 372 and 374 together. My Department is currently collating the information requested and a reply will issue directly to the Deputy in due course.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Annual Early Years Sector Profile survey is the primary data source on the Early Learning and Care (ELC) and School-Age Childcare (SAC) sector. It is developed and administered by Pobal on behalf of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY). All services who are contracted to deliver at least one DCEDIY funded programme/scheme (i.e. ECCE, NCS, CCSP)...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I would like to thank the Deputy for raising the question regarding the publishing of the Parent Statements for Partner Service. I have been informed by the relevant unit within my Department that they have been in contact with Pobal, the Core Funding scheme administrator, to facilitate uploading the Parent Statements to the NCS childcare search. My Department will endeavour to have...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Services who contract into Core Funding are required to keep their fees at the same level as the fees charged to parents in September 2021. Partner Services may create a new Service Type and agree that the fee for any new Service Type will be calculated as not more than a proportion of the closest equivalent fee extant on September 30, 2021 which, all other things being equal, would apply...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I would like to thank the Deputy for raising this question. Current fees list for 2024/2025 programme year are available to view by parents on the NCS website under the Childcare Search function. I have asked that historical fees lists for each service provider also be added to the website and this will be introduced in the coming weeks to give parents the ability to check previous years...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Freedom of Information (24 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The table below outlines the number of Freedom of Information requests received by this Department in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024 and sets out the number of requests that were refused in their entirety at the initial decision maker stage. Year Number of FOI requests received Number refused 2022 259 63 2023 394...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (24 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Accommodation Recognition Payment (ARP) was introduced in July 2022 to recognise the generosity of people who have opened their homes to provide accommodation to Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTPs) arriving in Ireland from Ukraine. The payment rate under this scheme is €800 per month per property with a unique Eircode, irrespective of whether the property is vacant or...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (24 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Accommodation Recognition Payment (ARP) was introduced in July 2022 to recognise the generosity of people who have opened their homes to provide accommodation to Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTPs) arriving in Ireland from Ukraine. The payment rate under this scheme is €800 per month per property with a unique Eircode, irrespective of whether the property is vacant or...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: EU Funding (24 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department has not received a funding allocation under the EU's Recovery and Resilience Programme. The Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (DPENDR) are the responsible department for this fund. The Deputy may wish to put a separate question to that Department on the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (24 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department is currently collating the information requested and a reply will issue directly to the Deputy in due course.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department works with Pobal and local City/County Childcare Committee’s (CCC) to offer case management support to services in difficulty. Through this process, services may also access Sustainability Funding following an assessment of need. A strand of emergency capital for fit-out/renovation of premises or necessary maintenance has been developed by my Department under...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Improving access to quality and affordable early learning and childcare is a key priority of Government. I am advised that there are six Tusla-registered early learning and childcare services based in Palmerstown that are in receipt of programme funding from my Department. Data available to my Department demonstrate that, overall, early learning and childcare provision is expanding,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The National Action Plan for Childminding 2021-2028 commits to extending regulation and supports to all paid, non-relative childminders who work in their own homes. The National Action Plan sets out a phased approach to regulation with a preparatory phase followed by an extended transition period, to allow childminders lead-in time for any requirements. This supportive, phased process aims to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Resource Centres (24 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 395 and 396 together. I wish to inform the Deputy that Tusla, the Child and Family Agency administers the FRC Programme, which supports 121 FRCs throughout the country. My Department allocates core funding for the FRC Programme through Tusla, which has advised my Department that the current level of funding is to sustain existing services operating in the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (24 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: In terms of changes to Maternity leave, I received Government approval in July for the drafting of a Bill to allow mothers who require treatment for a very serious illness to postpone their maternity leave for a period of time. The proposed legislation will also introduce, for the first time, a form of maternity leave for members of the Oireachtas. The text of the bill is currently being...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Work Supports (24 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am cognisant of the campaign referenced by the Deputy, and the submission is being reviewed within my Department. Budget 2025 is currently being considered by Government in the context of the annual estimates process. Therefore, the Deputy will appreciate that it would not be appropriate for me to comment further at this stage. However, from 2020 to Budget 2024, current Exchequer...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Work Projects (19 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 251, 252, 253 and 254 together. I have received the submission referred to by the Deputy, and it is being reviewed within my Department. Budget 2025 is currently being considered by Government in the context of the annual estimates process. Therefore, the Deputy will appreciate that it would not be appropriate for me to comment further at this stage. ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Work Projects (19 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Budget 2025 is currently being considered by Government in the context of the annual estimates process. Therefore, the Deputy will appreciate that it would not be appropriate for me to comment further at this stage. I am aware, of course, of the pre-budget submission in question and the request for additional funding for Comhairle na nÓg. In 2022 there was an increase in funding of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Work Supports (19 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Budget 2025 is currently being considered by Government in the context of the annual estimates process. Therefore, the Deputy will appreciate that it would not be appropriate for me to comment further at this stage. However, from 2020 to Budget 2024, current Exchequer funding for youth services and programmes increased from €61.79 million to €77.95 million, a 26% increase...