Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Departmental Strategies

Mary Lou McDonald

462. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the new National Strategy for Women and Girls for 2022 to 2025 will be published. [47944/22]

Departmental Strategies

Mary Lou McDonald

463. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide the study commissioned by his Department to evaluate the processes for implementation of three equality strategies, which includes the National Strategy for Women and Girls and the Migrant Integration Strategy and the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy. [47945/22]

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Mary Lou McDonald

464. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress that he has made in his discussions with the Catholic Church and the Church of Ireland regarding contributing towards the mother and baby home redress scheme. [47947/22]

International Protection

Richard O'Donoghue

465. Deputy Richard O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48007/22]

Childcare Services

Jackie Cahill

466. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when funding will be made available to a childcare service (details supplied); and if this funding will be backdated to when the service initially received this recommendation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48010/22]

Burial Grounds

Holly Cairns

467. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the consideration that was given to the Vienna Protocols in the drafting of the procedures for the examination of sites of potential mass graves in State-run or funded institutions. [48081/22]

Burial Grounds

Holly Cairns

468. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the concerns of the many victims and survivors regarding the methodology of the appointment of the director, the advisory board and the establishment of the correct expertise concerning the forthcoming examination of the Tuam site under the Institutional Burials Act 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48082/22]

Burial Grounds

Holly Cairns

469. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will publish, once available, the criteria for the post of director concerning the forthcoming examination of the Tuam site under the Institutional Burials Act 2022, along with any candidates' information also supplied to prospective applicants to demonstrate the experience that is required, particularly at an international level, along with the requirements or definitions of that role as created by him. [48083/22]

Burial Grounds

Holly Cairns

470. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on supporting the principle that validation through co-design and decision-making by an extended advisory board and or the wider consultation is necessary to establish a broad victim, survivor and public confidence in the processes defined by the Institutional Burials Act 2022 and its methodologies. [48084/22]

Burial Grounds

Paul Murphy

471. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 412 of 20 September 2022, if he will examine the information (details supplied) and reconsider the request for those workers in Section 56 agencies who have not had their pay restored, to receive a pay increase in line with inflation and the cost-of-living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48118/22]

Children in Care

Mattie McGrath

472. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children that Tusla accommodated in private residential care in each of the years 2015 to 2021 and to date in 2022. [48153/22]

Freedom of Information

Mary Lou McDonald

473. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to his Department’s failure to respond in-part and in-whole to the freedom-of-information requests of a person (details supplied), some of which date back to September 2020; and if this delay meets his Department’s commitment to promote transparency in its application of legislation concerning freedom of information. [48169/22]

International Protection

Mick Barry

474. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to a number of incidents (details supplied); the resources, if any, which have been allocated to the International Protection Accommodation Services and the Ukraine crisis temporary accommodation team to address these matters; if guidance has been provided to staff and management in accommodation-settings in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48208/22]

International Protection

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

475. Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of engagement that his Department has had with members of local authorities in local authority areas that have been identified for modular housing as part of the Government's emergency response to the Ukrainian housing crisis; the number of such meetings; the dates, location and the number of elected local authority members that were present in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48307/22]

Residential Institutions

Patrick Costello

476. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions that his Department is taking to give effect to the United Nations human rights experts calls for redress for systemic racism and racial discrimination in childcare institutions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48330/22]

Childcare Services

Sorca Clarke

477. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when parents can expect their childcare costs to reduce by the 25% in the national childcare scheme as per Budget 2023. [48360/22]

Care Services

Alan Dillon

478. Deputy Alan Dillon asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to increase the foster care allowance to families that work with Tusla given that this allowance has not been increased since 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48375/22]

Childcare Services

Patrick Costello

479. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures that will be put in place for those families who employ in-house childminders in the context of the reduction in the costs of children announced in budget 2023. [48400/22]

Health Services Staff

Denis Naughten

480. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the initiatives that he is planning, to increase the number of occupational therapists and speech and language therapists qualifying on an annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48403/22]

Childcare Services

Patrick Costello

481. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the cut in childcare fees will apply to non-national childcare scheme registered creches; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48410/22]