Written answers
				Wednesday, 18 January 2023
  				
Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
				 
  - Maternity Leave 
 938. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 577 of 18 October 2022, if provisions for maternity leave for Members of...
- Victim Support Services 
 939. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the management of a redress scheme for victims of abuse of an institution...
- Departmental Contracts 
 940. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of the contract his Department signed with a consulting company (details supplied)...
- International Protection 
 941. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is the policy of his Department to support the introduction of so-called 'community champions' to engage...
- Departmental Staff 
 942. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of additional staff who were allocated to his Department to deal with the intake of Ukrainian...
- Adoption Services 
 944. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that he did not provide the Adoption Authority of Ireland with adequate resources in order to respond...
- Early Childhood Care and Education 
 945. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide the data used to support the allocation of core funding to a sessional model of preschool; if...
- Refugee Resettlement Programme 
 946. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that his Department is yet to respond to an offer of accommodation for Ukrainian refugees from a...
- Seirbhísí Cúram Leanaí 
 947. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth an aontaíonn an tAire go bhfuil géarghá le plean cuimsitheach chun tabhairt faoi na heasnaimh sa...
- Legislative Measures 
 948. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections that are...
- Child and Family Agency 
 950. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for the number of social workers employed by Tusla in counties Louth and Meath in the years 2019 to 2022,...
- Irish Sign Language 
 951. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the report by the National Disability Authority into the operation and implementation of the Irish Sign...
- Childcare Services 
 953. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the regionalisation of community childcare offices. [63499/22]
- Rights of People with Disabilities 
 959. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the rationale for Ireland including a specific reservation to the provisions of the UNCRPD (details supplied)....
- International Protection 
 962. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if International Protection Accommodation Services is in the process of procuring factory premises in Shannon...
- Direct Provision System 
 963. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department is in the process of procuring factory premises in Shannon for the provision of additional...
- Childcare Services 
 965. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the new childcare policy has made the model less flexible for those not availing of full-time childcare...
- International Protection 
 966. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will urgently review a matter (details supplied) reported over the weekend that families have been given...
- Commissions of Inquiry 
 967. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to establish a State inquiry into the practice of illegal adoptions; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Policies 
 968. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to ensure that all persons whose illegal birth registration is established in the future are entitled...
- Capital Expenditure Programme 
 969. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of a buildings block grant for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Mother and Baby Homes 
 970. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide information on the way that a person (details supplied) can access information on their...
- International Protection 
 971. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to avoid housing international protection applicants in inappropriate or dangerous accommodation; and...
- Childcare Services 
 973. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has plans to help support parents, especially single-parent households, with the significant...
- Legislative Reviews 
 974. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider a review of the Equal Status Acts 2000 to 2015 to ensure that trans persons and all members...
- Legislative Process 
 976. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline for the progression of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 through the Houses...
- Direct Provision System 
 977. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated average cost of keeping an applicant for asylum in direct provision per year; and the total cost...
- Departmental Schemes 
 978. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 186 of 14 December 2022, if he will provide this Deputy with copies of the...
- Childcare Services 
 979. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when childminders will be added to the national childcare scheme; if an interim measure will be introduced in...
- International Protection 
 980. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a list of all schools that have been used for temporary accommodation for Ukraine or IP...
- Legislative Measures 
 981. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has any plans to include education as a future ground for discrimination in the Employment Equality and...
- Irish Language 
 982. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Little Baby Bundle which will be distributed to 500 new parents in February 2023 will contain literature...
- International Protection 
 983. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when service providers of refugee accommodation (details supplied) will be paid. [1331/23]
- Ukraine War 
 984. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be paid the significant moneys owed to them in respect of...
- Rights of People with Disabilities 
 986. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the optional protocol will be enacted to give credibility to the adoption of the UNCRPD; and if he will...
- International Protection 
 987. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will list all locations at which more than ten Ukrainian refugees are being accommodated in counties...
- Ukraine War 
 990. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Ukrainian refugees who were accommodated in Ireland from February 2022 onwards but who have...
- Ministerial Responsibilities 
 991. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the specific delegated functions that have been transferred to Ministers of State appointed in December 2022, in...
- Departmental Data 
 992. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the name of the company, organisation or persons contracted to provide media training to him from 1 January 2021...
- Childcare Services 
 993. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the review of the county childcare committees will be completed; and when the regional hubs will be...
- Child Protection 
 994. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of recruitment for the role of special rapporteur on child protection; when the role will be filled;...
- International Protection 
 997. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for the provision of accommodation for Ukrainians;...
- Childcare Services 
 998. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will confirm the current portion of childcare fees that are paid by families, given the changes made to...
- International Protection 
 1000. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the goods and services that accommodation providers are contractually obliged to provide to beneficiaries of...
- Childcare Services 
 1002. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will intervene on the issue of core funding for a childcare service (details supplied) with both Tusla...
- International Protection 
 1003. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a further payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in respect of accommodation being provided;...
- Disability Services 
 1004. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will investigate the reason an organisation is refusing to accommodate a person (details supplied) who is...
- Childcare Services 
 1005. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if provision will be made to ensure the ongoing viability of small, rural preschools, which offer a vital...
- Early Childhood Care and Education 
 1006. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many small, independent early learning and childcare...
- Legislative Process 
 1008. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a timeline for the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022 to pass all...
- Family Support Services 
 1009. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the lack of support that is available to parents who have tragically lost a...
- Child Poverty 
 1013. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will immediately establish a new National Child Poverty Plan with a dedicated unit that encompasses an...
- Birth Certificates 
 1014. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps that he is taking in response to individuals being informed that they will not be provided with their...
- Disability Services 
 1016. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline for the working group to publish proposals in relation to Government-funded transport and mobility...
- Parental Leave 
 1017. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a person can avail of parental leave immediately after maternity leave eligibility expires; and if he will...
- Rights of People with Disabilities 
 1018. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on removing the State’s reservations to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with...
- Early Childhood Care and Education 
 1020. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that the core funding for childcare-preschool services recognises the experience of persons...
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