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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