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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Whilst I cannot comment on individual cases, I will try to be helpful in general terms. The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme provides financial payments and health supports to eligible people who spent time in a Mother and Baby or County Home Institution It is recognised that there are people who suffered stigma, trauma and abuse in other institutions, and outside of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: European Union (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department requires additional time to gather the information requested and will respond directly to the Deputy in the coming days once the information has been collated.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Official Apology (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for his question. At the outset, I wish to again acknowledge the profound personal impacts felt by your constituent and by his family as a result of incorrect and wrong allegations made in this case. It is important and appropriate that Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, as the State body with statutory responsibility for the delivery of child protection and welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Budgets (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The table below provides details of the budget allocations for each programme under the subhead E4 of the Revised Estimate for 2023 and 2024. A Supplementary Estimate was also provided in 2023 which we have incorporated into the final allocation 2023 column. Revised Estimates 2023 Final Allocation 2023 Revised Estimates 2024 ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Budgets (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The table below provides details of the budget allocations for each programme under the subhead E5 of the Revised Estimate for 2023 and 2024. A Supplementary Estimate was also provided for in 2023 which we have been incorporated into the final allocation 2023 column. Revised Estimates 2023 Final Allocation 2023 Revised Estimates 2024 ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Budgets (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: In February 2021 A White Paper to End Direct Provision and establish a new International Protection Service was published. The paper set out a new approach for accommodating applicants that seek International Protection in Ireland and contains three core themes – accommodation, integration and supports. There is a legal obligation on the state to meet the requirements under the EU...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Budgets (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department has no pre-committed capital expenditure under the National Development Plan (NDP) that will be dedicated to temporary protection accommodation in each of the years 2024 to 2026. In Budget 2024, €61m is allocated in capital funds out of a total allocation of €1.49bn for subhead E05 that covers my Department’s expenditure in the Government’s Ukraine...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Since the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine in February 2022, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) continues to work as part of the whole-of-Government response with a focus on providing access to emergency temporary accommodation to those fleeing the conflict who request it, in line with Government policy. My Department launched an online...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 440 and 441 together. As part of the State’s humanitarian response to the Ukrainian crisis, the Government has developed a Rapid Build Housing Programme to provide accommodation for families fleeing the war in Ukraine who request it. The programme aims to provide short-term accommodation for up to 2,800 Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTPs) at...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 442, 443, 444 and 447 together. In February 2021 A White Paper to End Direct Provision and establish a new International Protection Service was published. The paper set out a new approach for accommodating applicants that seek International Protection in Ireland and contains three core themes – accommodation, integration and supports. There is a legal...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 445 and 446 together. In February 2021 A White Paper to End Direct Provision and establish a new International Protection Service was published. The paper set out a new approach for accommodating applicants that seek International Protection in Ireland and contains three core themes – accommodation, integration and supports. There is a legal obligation...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Contracts (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am informed that officials in my Department have been in contact with the accommodation provider in question with regard to required adjustments to invoices to take due account of occupancy, agreed rates and contractual terms. The provider should be encouraged to contact my Department to conclude this matter. I can assure the Deputy that every effort is made to pay without delay all of the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Contracts (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am advised by my officials that they have engaged directly with the provider to which the Deputy refers. A payment for the March invoice has been processed and will issue in due course.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Carer's Leave (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The current entitlements to carer's leave provide that employees with at least one year's continuous service are entitled to between 13 and 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. An employee on carer’s leave may qualify for a social welfare benefit (Carer’s Benefit, or Carer’s...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The data requested by the Deputy is not available. The Department does not rent accommodation, but enters into a contract to provide accommodation related services for International Protection Applicants. Payment information is not collated by accommodation type in the manner outlined by the Deputy. In relation to service providers contracted by IPAS to provide accommodation services to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) cannot comment on individual cases. The State has a legal obligation to assess the claims of those who seek International Protection (IP), and in that time, to provide accommodation and supports in line with the Recast Reception Conditions Directive (transposed under SI 230 of 2018, or the "Reception Conditions Regulations"), to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Please see below the occupancy figures of International Protection (IP) applicants accommodated by the state, correct as of 31/12/2023. County Occupancy Carlow County Council 180 Cavan County 180 Clare County 696 Cork City 635 Cork County 915 ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Since the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine in February 2022, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) continues to work as part of the whole-of-Government response with a focus on providing access to emergency temporary accommodation to those fleeing the conflict who request it, in line with Government policy. To date, over 106,000 beneficiaries of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: There are currently over 29,000 people accommodated in the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) system as a whole (of whom nearly 7,000 are children) compared with approximately 8,700 people at the end of February 2022. Together with Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection displaced by the war in Ukraine, this means that Ireland is now accommodating over 100,000 people in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (8 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Thank you Deputy for flagging this request. As you may be aware, section 8 of the Child and Family Agency Act, 2013 provides that Tusla 'shall be independent in the performance of its functions'. As such, meetings for the Tusla CEO would be a matter for the CEO herself to consider. However, we have taken the opportunity to inform Tusla of your parliamentary question. I understand,...