Department of Children, Disability and Equality
FOI Requests — 1173 requests
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
All documents, briefing notes, emails, memos, meeting notes, Whatsapps and text messages relating to pursuing religious orders for contributions to the redress scheme following the publication of the final Mother and Baby Home Commission report January in 2021 to date
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
All records/correspondence/minutes of meetings between Minister Roderic O'Gorman and/or the Department of Children and the following groups (individually): Bon Secours sisters, the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Sisters of St John of God, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Sisters of Mercy, the Daughters of Charity, the Legion of Mary and the Church of Ireland, from October 2021 to June 2023.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
All internal correspondence within the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth from 01/01/2022 to 16/01/2023, about the following topics: Plans to excavate the site of the former mother and baby institution in Tuam, and recover and identify remains; Plans to hire a Director who will oversee this process. Copies of minutes of any meetings related to the above, as well as any briefing documents prepared for ministers in the department on these topics.
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
All documents, emails (internal and external communication) in relation to LGBTI+ Training (or associated training) for the judiciary and legal systems in Ireland as part of the implementation of the LGBTI+ National Youth Strategy 2018-2020 and/or the National LGBTI+ Inclusion Strategy from 2018 to present.
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
Internal guidelines that were in place in your body on 01/01/2024 regarding approval or authorisation of personal expenditure (expenditure on goods or services to be provided directly to the individual) by the Secretary General or Accounting Officer. Internal guidelines in place on 31/10/2024 regarding the same matter. Any instruction issued since 25/09/2024 to review expenditure approval processes for staff at any grade. The outcome of any such review [of expenditure approval processes]. A list of all expenditure which was approved solely by a person at Secretary General, Deputy Secretary General or Assistant Secretary General level in 2023 or 2024.
- Part-grantReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
1. Any records, reports, correspondence, opinions or assessments (engineering, structural, professional or otherwise) in relation to the condition of the access laneway/road for a property 2. Any records, reports, correspondence, opinions or assessments (engineering, structural, professional or otherwise) in relation to street lighting on the laneway/road for a property 3. Any records, reports, correspondence, opinions or assessments (H&S, professional or otherwise) in relation to H&S risk assessments for the access laneway/road and street lighting for a property 4. Any records, reports, correspondence in relation to the date Ukrainian refugees will move into a property 5. Any records, reports, effluent monitoring, correspondence, opinions or engineering assessments in relation to the new waste water treatment system which has been installed for a property
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
All records relating to or discussing Scouting Ireland between January 1st 2021 and July 22nd 2022
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
All records concerning the following matters in relation to the preparation of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: 1. the requirement for eligibility for a general payment that a person be resident as a child in a relevant institution for at least 180 days. 2. the requirement for eligibility for a medical card: that a person who was resident as a mother or a child, or both, in an institution listed in Schedule 1 for at least 180 days 3. Correspondence regarding Schedule 1 (inclusion of institutions) 4. Correspondence regarding "boarding out"/foster care
- Part-GrantReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
Records relating to Children’s Disability Services Grant Fund
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
Records relating to the Office of the Special Advocate for Survivors of Institutional Abuse
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
Records relating to data protection courses completed by employees since 2022
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
Copies of the current Participation Services Contract between the Department and Foróige and Youth Work Ireland. Evaluation reports, performance reviews, or assessments conducted by the Department concerning the services provided by Foróige and Youth Work Ireland under this contract, if any
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
1. The contract between a property and the Department of Integration regarding the housing of asylum seekers, between 2023 and present. 2. The contract between a hotel and the Department of Integration regarding the housing of asylum seekers, between 2023 and present.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
A copy of Minister O'Gorman's ministerial diary for the periods 01/08/2020 to 31/08/2020; 01/08/2021 to 31/08/2021; 01/08/2022 to 31/08/2022. A copy of Minister O'Gorman's mileage expense claims (showing actual kilometres claimed) for the periods 01/08/2020 to 31/08/2020; 01/08/2021 to 31/08/2021; 01/08/2022 to 31/08/2022.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
A copy of responses to a questionnaire sent to services working with at-risk children, in response to a 1st December roundtable meeting organised by the Ombudsman for Children (as referenced in a 14th February letter to Lara Hynes from the Ombudsman).
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
1. Internal correspondence between Lara Hynes and Des Delaney on the topic of the exploitation of children in care, between 01/02/2023 and 31/06/2023. 2. Correspondence between the Department of Children and Tusla on the topic of the exploitation of children in care, between 01/05/2023 and 21/06/2023.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
All correspondence related to the offers made to the department of cruise ships to house Ukrainian refugees and International Protection applicants. This should include any records of deliberations or discussions about those offers among officials in the International Protection Procurement Services, the Minister's office and any other relevant section. This request should cover the period 16/11/2022 to the present day.
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
Expenses incurred and gifts received by the Minister and Junior Ministers at the department during their visits abroad for St Patrick's Day this year
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
I am submitting an FOI request under the Act or records regarding discussions by the Minister and department of the suspension of payments to the Transgender Equality Network Ireland and failure of that organisation to supply audited accounts.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
I am submitting an FOI request for all records in the department recording discussions by Minister O Gorman of the duty of care he owes as Minister to seek out, establish and to take into account the views of women and teenage girls who wish to retain and protect their traditional exclusive female only access to what is referred to as 'Safe Spaces' ( toilets, changing rooms etc) and the actions he as Minister for Equality has taken to promote and protect those traditional female rights to safe spaces.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
All records in the possession of the department in relation to the consultation and advice given to Minister O'Gorman, both within his department and other outside consultation, and advice given to his department by any other third party including public representatives, government departments, state and other agencies including Meath County Council and Louth County Council to locate BOTP applicants and separately IPAS applicants in a hotel.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
All records relating to the use of tents outside the International Protection Office (IPO) since January 2023. Any feasibility studies, risk assessments, guidelines issued to staff at the IPO, memos, reports, meeting notes, and briefing materials relating to the use of these tents. Any letters, emails, or other documents (reports/memos etc) relating to the conditions at the makeshift camp, such as health concerns/conditions, sanitary conditions/use of toilet facilities, protection from weather, protection from hostile protesters etc.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
1. An líon beacht teifeach ón Úcráin atá ina gcónaí i gcóiríocht Stáit i bparóiste Ghaoth Dobhair, Tír Chonaill faoi láthair; 2. An líon beacht iarrthóirí tearmainn ar Chosaint Idirnáisiúnta (IPAS) faoin scéim An tSeirbhís Chóiríochta um Chosaint Idirnáisiúnta, atá ina gcónaí i gcóiríocht Stáit i bparóiste Ghaoth Dobhair, Tír Chonaill faoi láthair; 3. Liosta seoltaí agus eirchóid de na láithreacha beachta áitribh atá in úsáid faoi láthair le cóiríocht Stáit a thabhairt do dhídeanaithe ón Úcráin agus/nó d’iarratasóirí ar Chosaint Idirnáisiúnta/iarrthóirí tearmainn i nGaoth Dobhair, Tír Chonaill faoi láthair; 4. Liosta de na soláthraithe, léasaithe, daoine aonair agus nó cuideachtaí a íocann an Roinn faoi láthair le cóiríocht Stáit a sholáthar do dhídeanaithe ón Úcráin agus/nó d’iarratasóirí ar Chosaint Idirnáisiúnta/iarrthóirí tearmainn i bparóiste Ghaoth Dobhair, Tír Chonaill faoi láthair; 5. Liosta de na bainisteoirí ionaid, de gach áitribh aonair ar chonradh Stáit le cóiríocht a sholáthar do dhídeanaithe ón Úcráin agus/nó d’iarratasóirí ar Chosaint Idirnáisiúnta/iarrthóirí tearmainn i nGaoth Dobhair, Tír Chonaill faoi láthair; 6. Deimhnigh, le do thoil, cineál an chonartha Stáit atá i bhfeidhm do gach sainchóiríocht a úsáidtear le cóiríocht Stáit a thabhairt do dhídeanaithe ón Úcráin agus/nó d’iarratasóirí ar Chosaint Idirnáisiúnta/iarrthóirí tearmainn i nGaoth Dobhair, Tír Chonaill faoi láthair; 7. Logchomhad iomlán den mhéid cruinn airgid a íocadh go data, le gach áitreabh ar leith, le haghaidh cóiríochta do dhídeanaithe ón Úcráin agus d'iarratasóirí ar Chosaint Idirnáisiúnta/iarrthóirí tearmainn i nGaoth Dobhair, Tír Chonaill faoi láthair; 8. Líon agus suíomh na n-áitreabh i nGaoth Dobhair, Tír Chonaill atá á meas go gníomhach faoi láthair mar chóiríocht fhéideartha do dhídeanaithe ón Úcráin agus d'iarratasóirí ar Chosaint Idirnáisiúnta/iarrthóirí tearmainn; 9. Deimhnigh, le do thoil, an grinnfhiosrúchán atá déanta maidir le gach Dídeanaí Úcránach agus/nó iarratasóir/iarrthóir tearmainn ar Chosaint Idirnáisiúnta a bhfuil cónaí orthu i bParóiste Ghaoth Dobhair, Tír Chonaill faoi láthair; 10. Deimhnigh, le do thoil, líon na nDídeanaithe ón Úcráin agus/nó na n-iarratasóirí ar Chosaint Idirnáisiúnta/iarrthóirí tearmainn a bhí mar ábhar cúisimh choiriúla agus/nó ionchúisimh ó thosaigh siad ar conaí i gcóiríocht Stáit i bParóiste Ghaoth Dobhair, Tír Chonaill; 11. Deimhnigh le do thoil cad iad na bearta atá á nglacadh faoi láthair maidir le stádas dídeanaí/iarrthóir tearmainn atá i gcóiríocht Stáit i bparóiste Ghaoth Dobhair, Tír Chonaill, nuair a dhéantar coir sa dlínse seo; 12. Deimhnigh le do thoil an líon iomlán iarratais ar chóiríocht Stáit atá a mheas i láthair na huaire maidir le dídeanaithe breise ón Úcráin agus/nó iarratasóirí/iarrthóirí tearmainn ar Chosaint Idirnáisiúnta a lonnadh i bParóiste Ghaoth Dobhair, Tír Chonaill in 2024;
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
Information regarding a direct provision centre. All emails between government officials, the owner of the building and the company regarding the discussions and negotiations around the use of the building as a direct provision centre. The minutes from all meetings held regarding discussions and negotiations around the use of the building as a direct provision centre. The date the contract was signed for the building to be used as a direct provision centre.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
What drove the department to consider the proposed use of a property for asylum seekers. Minutes of meetings, tenders considered and a record of the decision making and processes involved. The risk register assessing the risks of this proposed plan and how these risks including the overstretching of local resources are to be mitigated.
- Part-GrantReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
Records regarding the First Annual Report on The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme 2024
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
Records held by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth relating to vetting procedures at International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) facilities for the last six months: Records detailing all vetting procedures and policies for security staff at IPAS accommodation centres. Records showing any vetting procedures or policies that apply to subcontractors or third-party companies providing security services at IPAS accommodation centres, including any policies that would apply to future subcontractors. Records showing how these vetting procedures and requirements are communicated to contractors and any subcontractors, including any guidance documents, training materials, or correspondence used to explain these requirements.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
The breakdown in the total payments to accommodation providers for accommodation for international protection applicants in Waterford, from 01/01/2020 to 01/01/2025 (excluding providers paid less than €50,000 accumulative in that period).
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
Record which shows total expenditure in your organisation in 2024 and to date in 2025 on ID cards, lanyards, card holders, card printers or any software used for producing ID cards
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
The following information relating to a direct provision centre based on the figures for 01/03/2024: Number of people declared a refugee; Number of people granted subsidiary protection; Number of people neither a refugee or subsidiary protection declaration given permission to remain; Number of people given neither a refugee or subsidiary protection declaration nor permission to remain; Number of people in the process of appealing a decision that has been made; Number of people still waiting for a decision.
- Part-GrantReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
Correspondence between the Department and the Department of The Taoiseach regarding the crisis in special care capacity and / or the use of special emergency arrangements
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
Copy of all communications which cover the procedure and what criteria were followed in arriving at the decision within the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to give the Sex Workers Alliance of Ireland (SWAI) €9,387 in taxpayer funding just before Christmas under the 2024 LGBTI+ Community Services Fund. A copy of any communications between the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth with the Department of Justice over the awarding of this tranche of money given that the latter department has denied funding to the SWAI unless the group accepts that "prostitution is inherently exploitative of vulnerable people" and still maintains this policy and is quoted as having said that "Funding is made available for projects that are aligned with wider Government policies." A copy of the evaluation of the SWAI by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth which is quoted in Gript to have "...scored sufficiently highly to be granted funding in a competitive funding call."
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
The dates on which the document attached was sent to any Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection between 09/10/2023 and 09/10/2024.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
1. A copy of any correspondence exchanged at Principal Officer and above, briefing notes, reports, assessments, guidance, minutes of meetings, standard operating procedure, attendances or similar document on the availability and/or access to emergency homeless accommodation through or from the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive and/or local authorities for applicants for international protection who have no fixed address and/or who are homeless (from September 2023 to 12/02/2024). 2. A copy of correspondence exchanged at Principal Officer and above by the Department with the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive and/or local authorities regarding access to and/or availability of homeless accommodation to applicants for international protection who have no fixed address and/or who are homeless (from September 2023 to 12/02/2024). 3. A copy of correspondence exchanged at Principal Officer and above by the Department with the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government regarding access to and/or availability of homeless accommodation to applicants for international protection who have no fixed address and/or who are homeless (from September 2023 to 12/02/2024). 4. A copy of any correspondence exchanged at Principal Officer and above, briefing notes, reports, assessments, guidance, minutes of meetings, standard operating procedure, attendances or similar document on the availability and/or access to services provided by charities/voluntary agencies/non-governmental organisations for applicants for international protection who have no fixed address and/or who are homeless (from September 2023 to 12/02/2024). [continued...]
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
A copy of all memos, emails, minutes of meetings, planning applications and decisions related to a guesthouse.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
1. All records detailing communications, as well as the contents of the communications-by telephone, emails, meetings, between the Taoiseach and officials from their department and Minister Roderic O'Gorman and his department and department officials between 05/01/2024 and 11/01/2024 both dates inclusive, on the topic of moving applicants for international protection to a hotel. 2. All records showing the number and nationalities of applicants for international protection who have been located to a town from 01/01/2022 to 11/01/2024, both dates inclusive.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
All internal correspondence (including attachments) memos, briefing documents or notes between the Minister, the Secretary General, and/or the International Protection, Integration and Equality Division related to the building of new reception centres, between 01/01/2023 and 12/01/2024.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
Copies of any emails/letters prepared by the department since November 2022 informing communities about the placement of Ukrainian refugees or International Protection applicants in accommodation or hotels in their locality.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
Messages the department has received by the public over plans to house asylum seekers at a former hotel.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
Tender issued "Direct award of contracts for the provision of Accommodation and ancillary services for refugees arriving in Ireland as a result of the Ukrainian conflict" specifically requesting the room or person rate being paid to hotels.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
Copies of any correspondence with An Garda Síochána, a local authority, or any health or welfare organisation with regard to plans for creation of an accommodation centre at a hotel.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
All records/communications regarding the potential examination or excavation of human remains at Bessborough, including, but not limited to, in the context of the Institutional Burials Act 2022. The request is for records to include - but not limited to: Internal and external correspondence (inc correspondence between agencies); Minutes of meetings, notes or memos in relation to discussions or telephone calls. The time period for this request 2019.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
Copies of all contracts and correspondence between the department and a limited company and/or an individual regarding the use of a property in a town to accommodate refugees created between March 2022 and the present date. Copies of all correspondence between the department and any other state agencies, including but not limited to the NTMA or NAMA and Revenue, regarding the same property
- Part-grantReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
1. A copy of the contract between the DCEDIY (or relevant agency) and a hotel related to the provision of accommodation for beneficiaries of temporary protection. 2. Correspondence between the DCEDIY (or its representatives) and a hotel regarding compliance with contractual obligations, particularly related to safety standards (e.g., fire safety, health and living conditions). 3. Any inspection reports or assessments conducted to evaluate the suitability of a hotel as accommodation under the BOTP scheme, with an emphasis on safety obligations and compliance.
- Part-grantReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
All records of correspondence between the Department of Integration and the Department of Public Expenditure regarding the overall cost of conducting and disseminating the government's Migration Information Campaign which launched in Oct 2024. All records of correspondence between the Department of Integration and the Department of Finance regarding the overall cost of conducting and disseminating the government's Migration Information Campaign which launched in Oct 2024. All records of correspondence between the Department of Integration and Q4 Public Relations regarding guidelines and plans for the gov's 2024 Migration Information Campaign.All records of consultation sessions with refugee and migrant groups regarding the government's Migration Information Campaign.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
Release of the Independent Financial Review of Sessional Services produced by Frontier Economics. Copies of invoices paid to Frontier Economics as part of this report. Any correspondence, both internal and external, related to the above report, as well as any letters, emails, text messages, WhatsApp messages, memos, notes, reports, draft reports and any other relevant records that were created, sent or received by the Department of Children.
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
List of ministerial e-submissions for September 2025
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
Copy of the planned public engagements of the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O'Gorman for the six-month period from the date of release of the information under this FOI request.
- Part-grantReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
List of e-submissions submitted to the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth through the e- submissions channel. I wish for my request to cover the period from 01/07/2024 - 31/07/2024.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Children, Disability and Equality
All records held by the Department in relation to pledged accommodation for Ukrainian refugees. This should include but is not limited to any correspondence with local authorities or minutes of any meetings with local authorities in relation to pledged accommodation; any correspondence with the City and County Managers Association or minutes of any meetings with the City and County Managers Association in relation to pledged accommodation; any correspondence with other departments or agencies or minutes of any meetings with other departments or agencies in relation to pledged accommodation; any internal departmental correspondence on this issue; any other relevant material.