Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Mother and Baby Homes

Holly Cairns

518. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details from the records available to his Department of the number of persons who spend less than six months in mother and baby homes or county homes for the time period covered by the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022. [53582/22]

Departmental Schemes

Mary Lou McDonald

283. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the applications to date to the Magdalen laundries redress scheme by country of residence; the number of successful applications to the scheme by country of residence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52640/22]

Family Resource Centres

Marian Harkin

284. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will commit to an increase in funding to all Family Resource Centres, so that all FRCs receive a minimum of €166,400 annually through core funding under the National FRC programme with an adequate percentage increase annually thereafter in view of the recent increase in Tusla funding in Budget 2023 to €37 million. [52478/22]

DNA Database

Marian Harkin

285. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will reconsider his position to set up a database to hold DNA samples of family members of those who were resident at St. Mary's Mother and Baby home in Tuam. [52479/22]

Childcare Services

Alan Dillon

286. Deputy Alan Dillon asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that childminders who have a service reference number for their premises are Tusla registered and have an active NCS or ECCE contract, are excluded from applying for a building blocks improvement grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52486/22]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Alan Dillon

287. Deputy Alan Dillon asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if early years' service providers who provide early years education from their personal private residence are eligible to apply for the building blocks improvement grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52487/22]

Departmental Schemes

Eoin Ó Broin

288. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Mother and Baby Institutions payment scheme will be extended to those who spent less than the prescribed time period of six months in an institution given that many persons have been excluded from the scheme on this basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52490/22]

Departmental Schemes

Eoin Ó Broin

289. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in relation to the Mother and Baby Institutions payment scheme if it is open to persons to challenge the Commission's interpretation of specific named institutions; and if so, if the process will be outlined. [52491/22]

Childcare Services

Kathleen Funchion

290. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a list of all early years and SAC services that are in receipt of the graduate premium. [52496/22]

Childcare Services

Catherine Connolly

291. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to increase the income limits for the income assessed strand of the National Childcare Subsidy; the details of any analysis carried out by his Department in this regard; if he will clarify what, if any, mitigating circumstances are taken into account when assessing a subsidy application in respect of parents earning marginally over the income limit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52498/22]

Direct Provision System

Catherine Murphy

292. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update in respect of the progress that has been made since the publication of a white paper to end direct provision; the number of international protection applicants that have transitioned into the new model to date in 2022; and if he will provide an update in respect of the work completed by implementation partners such as the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, the Housing Agency and the local authorities to develop and implement the new accommodation model and support services. [52548/22]

Assisted Decision-Making

Patricia Ryan

144. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the Government will fully commence the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52337/22]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Peadar Tóibín

145. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of indications received by his office in recent weeks, from early childcare providers, stating that they will have to close their business in the next year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52200/22]

Mental Health Policy

Peadar Tóibín

146. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the mental health survey carried out by an organisation (details supplied); if so, if he will provide details of the findings of the survey; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52201/22]

Direct Provision System

Peadar Tóibín

147. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he will respond to correspondence from this Deputy’s office dated to August 2022; and the reason that he has not responded to date (details supplied). [52202/22]

Direct Provision System

Peadar Tóibín

148. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the entity that is responsible for the physical maintenance of direct provision centres. [52203/22]

Direct Provision System

Peadar Tóibín

149. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the conditions of a building with broken windows and caged windows to the rear of a building (details supplied) which is operating as a direct provision centre; if asylum seekers are currently living in the building; if they were ever living in the building; if so, the date upon which they vacated the building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52204/22]

Children in Care

Peadar Tóibín

150. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will seek a proper debate in Dáil Éireann on the topic of historical child abuse within the foster care system. [52206/22]

Commissions of Investigation

Peadar Tóibín

151. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when it is expected that the Farrelly Commission of Investigation will produce its final report. [52207/22]

Children in Care

Peadar Tóibín

152. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide statistics of the death rate among persons under 18 years in Ireland; and the death rate among persons aged under 18 years who are in State care, both residential and fostering; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52208/22]