Results 1-20 of 326 for data protection speaker:Roderic O'Gorman

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Protection (30 Apr 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...work vacancies in Tusla and the challenges in recruiting sufficient numbers of social workers into Tusla. The critical importance of children in care and children in need of child welfare and protection services being allocated a social worker is paramount, and my Department is working closely with Tusla on the recruitment and retention of social workers. The data requested by the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (30 Apr 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...kin of children who died in an institution. It provides adopted persons with a clear and guaranteed right of access to their identity information, including information which is also the personal data of another person, as well as certain defined categories of third party information. This level of guaranteed access was not possible under the established data protection law, such as the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Undefined (30 Apr 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...weeks with a view to publication in May and initial implementation to commence in September. In January 2022, I launched Care Experiences: Journeys through the Irish Care System , a research and data project examining the lives of children in care and adults who were in care as children. This Project, which is being led by my Department in collaboration with Tusla as a key partner, will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (30 Apr 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...where focused cross government attention is required. These areas (child poverty; mental health and wellbeing; and disability services) have been highlighted by children and young people, as well as by data and research. We expect that by focusing attention on these Spotlight areas we can have a profound, positive impact on children and young people, especially those who are vulnerable. ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (23 Apr 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...management and staff vetting. As outlined in the SOP for SEAs, upon the establishment of an SEA a provider is issued with a guidance document from Tusla which outlines their obligations under data protection and the nature of records held. In addition to this each SEA provider is given instruction as to the types of records to be collected or processed by it when providing the service. ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (23 Apr 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The number of Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTP) and that of International Protection Applicants (IPA) by local electoral areas is set out in the table below. The data for BOTPs is not usually collated in this manner and data for 16 April 2024 has been compiled in this format. This data refers to accommodation supported or provided by this Department. There is no obligation on a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Apr 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1078, 1081 and 1082 together. Under the revised accommodation policy, those granted Temporary Protection from 14 March 2024 who seek accommodation from the State are offered a maximum of 90 days of State-supported accommodation in a Designated Accommodation Centre (DAC). It is expected that such Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTPs) will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Apr 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1079 and 1080 together. The overall capacity for Designated Accommodation Centres (DACs) remains under review. My Department continually runs data modelling of arrival numbers, which allows us to plan for the DAC capacity required to service fluctuating arrival numbers and to maintain capacity in the centres based on the turnover within them as...

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: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1088, 1137 and 1171 together. The Department of Integration does not collate current vacant beds by county due to the variable nature of the data which changes on an hourly basis. I can update the Deputy that the usable capacity available in the system over the last number of weeks has ranged between approximately 200 and 500 beds across 280 centers. This...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: The International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) is currently accommodating nearly 27,000 people in over 200 accommodation centres throughout Ireland. Of these 27,000 people, approximately 6,000 have been granted Permission to Remain. Data relating to the economic position of persons granted permission is not collated. Under The European Communities (Reception Conditions)...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: The Department does not release data with respect to potential IPAS accommodation offers for security reasons and as a matter of operational policy. The International Protection Procurement Service (IPPS) carefully appraises each property that is offered for use as accommodation for International Protection (IP) applicants before contracts are issued. The Department can only confirm use...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (7 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: There are currently over 27,000 people being accommodated by the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS). Over 9,800 of those International Protection (IP) applicants are being accommodated in 70 hotels throughout Ireland. Over 90% of those hotels are contracted exclusively for the accommodation of International Protection (IP) applicants and are not available for commercial...

Report of Joint Committee on Gender Equality: Motion (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...unpaid care work, as Deputy Cronin mentioned. In the workplace, too, women are over-represented in lower-paid roles in the care sector. That is why we have taken steps to advance recognition of care and social protection in Ireland. Major reform has been introduced to the national childcare scheme, which is improving the affordability of early learning care and school-age childcare for...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Youth Services 3. Traveller and Roma 4. Oberstown Children Detention Campus 5. Children and Young People’s Services Committees 6. Growing Up in Ireland 7. Early Years 8. Irish Refugee Protection Programme 9. LGBTI+ Youth Forum 10. Child Welfare and Protection 1. Participation and Consultation In the summer of 2020, my Department, working with the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Government is committed to delivering on its legal obligations to provide material reception conditions to those seeking International Protection (IP) in Ireland, and the Department is contracting emergency and short-term accommodation across the country in order to accommodate people as they arrive. The Department carries out due diligence on accommodation being contracted including;...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...placements (including at home under a care order, detention centre, disability unit, mental health unit, drugs/alcohol rehabilitation unit, hospital, special emergency arrangement, supported lodgings etc.). This data does not include children under the Service for Separated Children Seeking International Protection for which data was not available at this time. In respect of quality of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (28 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 101, 102 and 103 together. The Department does not release data with respect to potential IPAS accommodation offers for security reasons and as a matter of operational policy. The International Protection Procurement Service (IPPS) carefully appraises each property that is offered for use as accommodation for International Protection (IP) applicants before...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (22 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Nos. 252 to 254, inclusive, together. Since the outset of the war in Ukraine in early 2022, Ireland has provided accommodation to over 100,000 people between those fleeing Ukraine and International Protection applicants. This includes approximately 74,000 Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTPs) from Ukraine who required State supported accommodation and approximately 27,500...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (13 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The information is not available in the manner requested by the Deputy with respect to Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTPs) or in relation to International Protection applicants. However, data at local authority for BOTPs and at county level for IP applicants is presented in the two tables below. I can advise that my Department releases statistics in relation to BOTPs by local...