Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Departmental Bodies

Michael Ring

290. Deputy Michael Ring asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the name, function and establishment date of all the organisations and agencies that are funded by his Department; the number of employees in each; the salary of the chief executive in each organisation and agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49180/22]

DNA Database

Bríd Smith

291. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the database in relation to the mother and baby homes that will hold samples of family members’ DNA will be established; when the gathering of the necessary DNA of extended family members will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49208/22]

Public Sector Pay

Paul Murphy

292. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the decision-making process regarding the re-designation of children's residential care organisations for re-designating sections 38 and 39 residential childcare organisations as section 56. [49217/22]

Public Sector Pay

Paul Murphy

293. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the consultation regarding the re-designation of children's residential care organisations that took place with the management and staff of these organisations before being re-designated as section 56 organisations. [49218/22]

Public Sector Pay

Paul Murphy

294. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if management and staff of section 38 and 39 organisations were informed by either his Department, the HSE or Tusla of any potential changes to their terms and conditions regarding the re-designation of children's residential care organisations. [49219/22]

Public Sector Pay

Paul Murphy

295. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the basis on which section 56 organisations were informed that their funding would be reduced by an initial 5% if they refused to sign section 56 service level agreements with Tusla regarding the re-designation of children's residential care organisations; if any of these organisations lost funding as a result; and if so, the number. [49220/22]

Public Sector Pay

Paul Murphy

296. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that having had their pay cut during the economic crisis, as Section 38 and 39 organisations funded by the HSE, that Section 56 organisations were excluded from pay restoration following the re-designation of children’s residential care organisations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49221/22]

Public Sector Pay

Paul Murphy

297. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way in which the relationship between organisations (details supplied) differs from the employment relationship between section 39 organisations that received pay restoration and the HSE, which funds them. [49222/22]

Public Sector Pay

Paul Murphy

298. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he or his Department have given consideration to the potential impact on children in the care of voluntary organisations when the staff who look after them on behalf of the State, have been excluded from pay restoration and have had no pay increase for more than 12 years and are allowed to fall further and further behind their colleagues in the statutory and private sectors following the re-designation of children’s residential care organisations. [49224/22]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Réada Cronin

299. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme services that are of standard capitation given that his Department states that a standard capitation ECCE service will receive at least a 9.5% increase through core funding; the number that were higher capitation; the percentage increase awarded by core funding to higher capitation sessions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49245/22]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Réada Cronin

300. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress made to date in establishing a definition for reasonable profit within the meaning of the Crowe Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49246/22]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Réada Cronin

301. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the attention of his Department has been drawn to a penalising effect of the core-funding allocation wherein smaller independent services face closure thereby reducing choice for parents who want part-time care or early childhood care and education scheme-only provision, something that is not catered for in many full day care creches; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49247/22]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Réada Cronin

302. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department accepts that a 40-week preschool should be funded, wherever such provision is profitable, and that the Departmental policy extant could lead to the eradication of small, home from home services of which up to 1500 exist across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49248/22]

Parental Leave

Mairéad Farrell

303. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has considered amending the policy regarding parent’s leave and benefit to allow lone parents to take leave equal to the time two parent families can avail of in an effort to give children of lone parents a more equitable start in life; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49276/22]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

304. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay in processing an application for the operation of a school (details supplied). [49281/22]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Michael Creed

305. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that his Department insists on an age requirement to participate in ECCE; the reason a child (details supplied) has been advised that it is not possible to participate in ECCE in 2022; if he will review this regulation thereby empowering parents to determine when the child will participate in the ECCE year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49288/22]

Departmental Schemes

Bríd Smith

306. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions that he plans to take, to provide those who were subjected to differential treatment in childcare institutions with effective remedies, through the mother and baby institutions payment scheme, in particular to provide redress for the harms caused due to racial discrimination and systemic racism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49335/22]

Departmental Schemes

Gary Gannon

307. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will respond to the latest statement of the special rapporteurs of the United Nations Human Rights Council made on Friday 23 September 2022 calling on Ireland to introduce adequate redress for systemic racism and racial discrimination in childcare institutions; the actions that he plans to take to provide those who were subjected to differential treatment in childcare institutions with effective remedies, through the mother and baby institutions payment scheme, in particular to provide redress for the harms caused due to racial discrimination and systemic racism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49399/22]

Parental Leave

Jennifer Whitmore

249. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to extend parental leave for children over 13 years in order that parents have the choice to be with their older children when the need arises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48849/22]

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Ivana Bacik

250. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has considered the report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022; and when the Bill will be introduced for debate in Dáil Éireann. [48666/22]