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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (25 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: In March 2022, Government approved high-level proposals for a National Centre for Research and Remembrance, to be located on the site of the former Magdalen Laundry on Sean McDermott Street in Dublin 1.This Centre will stand as a site of conscience to honour equally all those who spent time in Industrial Schools, Magdalen Laundries, Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions, Reformatories,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (25 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: There are currently over 31,000 people accommodated in the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) system as a whole (of whom over 7,833 are children) compared with approximately 8,700 people at the end of February 2022. Weekly and Monthly statistics are available publicly on the gov.ie at the links below: . Please see, in tabular format, the number of persons with...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: While I try to be helpful at all times in the parliamentary process, the Deputy will be aware that I cannot be involved in individual cases and cannot comment on same. That said, I will try to be helpful in general terms. The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme is designed to provide payments and other benefits to people who spent time in any Mother and Baby or County Home...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (25 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I can inform the Deputy that my Department has no role in determining access to homeless services for Ukrainian beneficiaries of temporary protection or for any other group. The Deputy might wish to address this question to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage who has policy responsibility for homeless services. My Department provides access to State supported accommodation...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (25 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I acknowledge that many early learning and care (ELC) and school-age childcare (SAC) services report staffing challenges in relation to recruitment and retention. In general, staffing pressures in the sector are caused not by insufficient supply of qualified personnel, but by high levels of staff turnover. Pay levels are one of a number of issues impacting staffing levels.Providers of ELC and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Protection (25 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Statutory and operational responsibility for the delivery of child protection and welfare services is a matter for Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. The Deputy is seeking information in relation to an operational matter for Tusla. 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 (25 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Statutory and operational responsibility for the delivery of child protection and welfare services is a matter for Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. The Deputy is seeking information in relation to an operational matter for Tusla. 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 (25 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Statutory and operational responsibility for the delivery of child protection and welfare services is a matter for Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. The Deputy is seeking information in relation to an operational matter for Tusla. 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: International Protection (25 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Department is not in a position to comment on individual cases. Under the European Communities (Reception Conditions) Regulations 2018, those who have had their application determined are no longer entitled to Material Reception conditions. However, the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) continues to accommodate those with status, until such time that they progress...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (25 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: When a Partner Service enters into Core Funding, they agree to adhere to the terms of the Core Funding Partner Service Agreement. One such term of this agreement for the 2023/2024 Programme Year is that a Partner Service agrees that they will not charge non-refundable deposits including administration fees, registration fees or other such charges where the parent/guardian takes up the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (25 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My department provides funding to support the development of new play and recreation facilities for children and young people through the Capital Grant Scheme for Play and Recreation. Established in 2013, this grant scheme operates through and with Local Authorities. The scheme also funds the refurbishment of existing play and recreation facilities and the incorporation of natural play...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Freedom of Information (25 Jun 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: International Protection (25 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: There are currently over 31,000 people accommodated in the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) system as a whole (of whom over 7,833 are children) compared with approximately 8,700 people at the end of February 2022.Please see, in tabular format, the average duration spent in IPAS accommodation by international protection applicants arriving between 2019 and 2024. This data...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (25 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department does not collate information on beneficiaries of temporary protection (BOTPs) that have exited supported accommodation as requested by the Deputy. The overall number of BOTPs reported in accommodation that is supported by my Department has been in decline since November 2023. Estimates indicate that approx. 40 to 50 BOTPs per day have been leaving accommodation supported by my...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (25 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department did not collate the information in the manner requested by the Deputy in relation to a breakdown of the number of persons that vacated State-owned accommodation, commercial accommodation or other accommodation types respectively between end-December 2023 to end-March 2024.

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputies for their kind remarks to me and their very detailed and considered contributions to this debate today and yesterday. Childminding happens in Blanchardstown and all over Dublin. It is a phenomenon that happens all over the country. Childminders support so many families and children. Deputy Fitzmaurice is right that some of is because of the pressure on services....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (20 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Ensuring access to quality and affordable early learning and childcare is a key priority of Government. The level of capacity has risen substantially year on year between 2022 and 2023 as evidenced by survey data collected by Pobal, by administrative data from Core Funding and the National Childcare Scheme and registration data collected by Tusla. However, there is also evidence that...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (20 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme is designed to provide payments and other benefits to people who spent time in one or more of the Mother and Baby or County Home Institutions, that were identified by the Commission of Investigation as having a main function of providing sheltered and supervised ante and post-natal facilities to single mothers and their children. The...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Education and Training Boards (20 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: At the time of the launch of the UBU Your Place Your Space scheme in 2020, allocations made to all Education and Training Boards (ETBs) under this scheme were based on the number of youth services that operated under the predecessor schemes in each ETB functional area. Laois-Offaly ETB's allocation has increased since then on a similar basis to that for other ETBs. When additional funding...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The purpose of this Bill is to ensure that Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, has the appropriate enforcement powers to address serious non-compliance with regulations for early years services and to ensure that parents have access to information in relation to the quality of those services. The intention is not to increase enforcement...