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Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is not possible. We are actively engaging-----

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Social Democrats have 40 minutes; I have ten. I ask the Deputy to let me finish my point. We have been actively engaging with providers on the Ukrainian side seeking that they transfer to the international protection side. We have had some successes in that and will continue to do that but this notion that there are 3,000 easy beds there that we can remove-----

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy implied that this was something that was easily done.

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: We have major challenges on the accommodation front and it is not helpful when people pretend there are easy solutions to address this. There are no easy solutions; if there were, there would not be people left unaccommodated right now. I want to thank, as I always do when we discuss migration, the many Deputies in government and opposition, both party members and Independents, who work...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Ireland has long stood by the principle in international and European law that those who need to seek refuge must be afforded the right to do so humanely, fairly and according to the rules of the international system that we strive to uphold. Recent years have seen an unprecedented combination of contributory factors — some one-off, others due to fundamental shifts in migration...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (21 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for this question. A response will be provided directly to the Deputy in the coming days.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The total spend for International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) accommodation at year end 2023, was €640,064,470, with 26,279 residents accommodated at 31 December 2023. The cost includes all accommodation and related costs, including transport, facilities management and other related expenditure. The average cost of accommodating an IP applicant in IPAS accommodation is...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: On Saturday 16th March, the Department offered alternative shelter to all International Protection (IP) applicants camped at Mount Street. All those who accepted the offer were provided with tented accommodation at a site in Crooksling. The site at Mount Street was cleared over the weekend in cooperation with Dublin City Council due to the emerging public health and security risks. ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Protection (21 Mar 2024)

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

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Protection (21 Mar 2024)

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

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Protection (21 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Tusla publish all of their inspection reports on their website. For ease of reference we have attached the report however for any future requests see link to page for all publications including the named service relating to your query. www.tusla.ie/services/alternative-care/registration-and-insp ection-service/inspection-reports/2023-reports/.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (21 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Core Funding, which began in September 2022, is the new funding stream to start a partnership for the public good between the State and providers. Its primary purpose is to improve pay and conditions in the sector as a whole and improve affordability for parents as well as ensuring a stable income to providers. €160m of the total allocation for the 2022/2023 programme year went...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (21 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Officials in my Department have, in recent months, engaged intensively with members and nominees of the Early Learning and Childcare Stakeholder Forum (ELCSF) in relation to Core Funding Financial Reporting Requirements. Arising from that engagement, transitional arrangements for financial reporting this year and next were agreed. The Income and Expenditure Template that my officials now...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department and all Government will continue to engage with the Deputy and the other Drogheda TDs about supporting the immediate needs within Drogheda of the business community and looking to support the move of other hotels back into the tourism sector. The Deputy is absolutely right about the difficulties the current approach necessitates whether it is the use of hotel accommodation or...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Over the course of last week, Deputy Bacik and many other Deputies in this House raised the really concerning situation in Mount Street, which is why I asked my Department to act and identify a location where people would have access to sanitation, showers, toilets, meals and services. We were able to provide them at the site in Crooksling. The earliest we were able to provide that was last...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department cannot comment on individual properties or contractual arrangements due to the commercially sensitive nature of such details. Ukraine Division is open to renewing all contracts currently in place, subject to all contractual requirements and procurement criteria being met. These contracts are being renewed on an ongoing basis and officials in the Contracts Team in my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1079 and 1080 together. There are nearly 28,000 people accommodated in the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) system as a whole (of whom over 6,000 are children) compared with nearly 20,000 people at this time last year. Together with Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection displaced by the war in Ukraine, this means that Ireland is now...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: As the Deputy may be aware, there are currently two dedicated Reception and Orientation Centres (ROCs), used for accommodating beneficiaries of the Irish Refugee Protection Programme (IRPP). These centres are located at Clonea Strand, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford and Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon. Further reception spaces are allocated to IRPP beneficiaries in Mosney Village, Co. Meath. ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Department of Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth's Facilities Management Unit contacted An Garda Síochána on 19th January 2023 following a verbal threat via the telephone made to Departmental staff in the Minister's Office. The threat was to cause damage to Miesian Plaza. On two separate occasions, the assistance of An Garda Síochána has been...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for this question. A response will be provided directly to the Deputy in the coming days. The Deputy may wish to be aware that the Community Engagement Team has been established within my Department which stands ready to respond to queries of this nature, and they may be contacted directly at community@equality.gov.ie