Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

The time period for all actions below is 15/12/2023 to 25/01/2024. 1. Any or all internal/external documents and correspondence (including instant messages, on Skype, Microsoft Teams, meeting minutes, briefing notes, meeting invites etc) within the department regarding/relating to Scouting Ireland. 2. Details of correspondence and documents exchanged between Scouting Ireland and the department including meeting invites, minutes, briefing notes and memos. 3. Any correspondence and documents regarding any meeting of the Scouting Ireland officials and the department (as per the above dates) including the meeting on 15/01/2024 (including emails, text, whats app, phone call records, meeting invites, meeting minutes and briefing notes). 4. Any and all emails, text, whats app, phone call records with Scouting Ireland Interim CEO & Safeguarding Manager of Scouting Ireland. 5. The minutes and agenda of any meetings with these individuals or any other Scouting Ireland representative. 6. Any correspondence from the public/members of the Oireachtas (including Oireachtas members staff members) to the department regarding Scouting Ireland. 7. A copy of a report which raised concerns within Scouting Ireland.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Information relating to an IPAS centre. All documentation relating to all inspections carried out between October 2022 and December 2023. All contracts issued to Gateway Integration, specifying the maximum capacity allowed, date contract was issued and duration of contract.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

The number of hotels that the department leased during (i) 2022 and (ii) 2023 for the purposes of accommodating refugees or asylum- seekers, with a county breakdown. The total amount of money spent by the department in (i) 2022 and (ii) 2023 on leasing hotels for the purposes of accommodating refugees or asylum-seekers, with a county breakdown. The total amount of asylum-seekers or refugees currently living in hotels.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

In considering the suitability or otherwise of a premises as an IP centre, the Minister would have received a comprehensive report on the premises from a duly appointed Inspector. I require a full copy of this report and any attached documents.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Copy of the briefing note for Joe O'Brien that was released to the IT after an FOI request

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Up to date statistics occupancy of the people seeking international protection in an office building: Single men; Single women; Lone parents; Children; Couples; The same as the weekly reports issued on gov.ie website.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

1. The full list of such centres currently being used. 2. A list of such centres currently being planned.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

The time period for all actions below is the 14/11/2023 to the 15/12/2023, unless stated otherwise. Any or all internal documents, memorandums, terms of reference and correspondence (including instant messages, on Skype, Microsoft Teams etc) within the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth relating/regarding to Scouting Ireland.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

A record of how much has been paid by the department to former members of staff of the NDA for consultancy work in each of 2021, 2022, and 2023.- a record of the applicable day rates that were agreed for the above work.- a copy of the business case, cost benefit analysis, approval or sanction documents associated with the above consultancy work.- a copy of any records held referring or relating to whether the above work required a formal tendering process.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Records held by your department (not the HSE) relating to the conceptualisation and early planning of the Progressing Disabilities Services (PDS) programme as a reconfiguration and new model for service delivery; and any national or international evidence or research or models of implementation elsewhere that were considered or examined at that stage in the planning process from January 2007 to end of June 2009.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Information relating to a direct provision centre. All correspondence between (sent and received including any referenced attachments) an individual, and all IPAS representatives and all other DCEDIY staff. All correspondence between (sent and received including any referenced attachments) Gateway Integration management, and all IPAS representative and all other DCEDIY staff.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Full documentation relating to the design of the Service Profile module, the Core Funding Application module, and related documentation.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Correspondence to the Department of Equality and the International Protection Accommodation Services, from 24-02-2022 to 02-11-2022, from refugees and asylum seekers in direct provision, and NGOs, with concerns about the measures put in place for Ukrainian refugees.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

All correspondence between: DCEDIY Disability Children's section and the HSE regarding a special school and Minister Anne Rabbitte's Office and the HSE regarding a special school from 01/10/2023 to date

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Records relating to Good People Ltd

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

All records in the possession of the department in relation to the assessment of a hotel for Ukrainian refugees and also the separate assessment for IPAS applicants and all correspondence arising from both assessments

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

All records in the possession of the department in relation to all communications etc with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht & Sport regarding to the proposed use of a hotel for Ukranian refugees and also in relation to the proposed use of a hotel for IPAS applicants.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

All emails to the Tuam Advisory Committee that reference the "excavation" or "intervention" of the Tuam burial site from the Department of Children between March and April 2024.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Number and nature of complaints received by the department from Ukrainian refugees since 31/03/2023 to 31/05/2023, with complaints or concerns about difficulties in relation to accommodation.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Situation Report (Dept. of Children Response to Situation in Ukraine Sit Cen Report) for the month of May 2023.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Records, covering the period from 01/01/2019 to 31/12/2024:- Records detailing the total number of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests released later than the statutory deadlines prescribed by the FOI Act 2014 (e.g., 20 working days under Section 13 or 10 working days for an extension under Section 14) by your department

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

All text messages and emails sent by Minister Roderic O'Gorman to ministerial colleagues on the subject of housing asylum seekers who have not been made offers of housing in the last month (ending 26th May), on either private or departmental accounts -messages and emails relating to the housing of asylum seekers living in tents in Dublin city centre, in the area surrounding the International Protection Office.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

1. Copies of all emails, memos, briefing notes and other records regarding the decision to cease funding or providing services in respect of the pets of international protection applicants from Ukraine in 2023 and 2024. 2. Copies of records showing total expenditure on transport, kennelling, veterinary care, and other services or products relating to the pets of international protection applicants from Ukraine from February 2022 to the present date.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

1. All reports submitted to the department between 2023 and 2024 regarding ground penetrating scans at a property. 2. All correspondence to and from the department between 2023 and 2024 regarding ground penetrating scans at a property. 3. All invoices regarding ground penetrating scans at a property between 2023 and 2024 to the Department of Children.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Any correspondence between the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Intergration and Youth and the Ladies Gaelic Football Association in relation to the LGFA Transgender Policy from July 2022 to July 2023.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Records related to lobbying of Minister Roderic O'Gorman by the Immigrant Council of Ireland between 01/09/2022 and 31/12/2022. Records related to this entry on the Lobbying Register.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Copy of the scoping paper commissioned by the Minister in April 2021 in relation to the issue of conversion therapy.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

1. All emails, letters, memorandums or other documentation held by the department, its servants or agents concerning the use or potential use of a property by or on behalf of the department or any other state body or body corporate. 2. Records of all communications and/or meetings between the department, its servants and/or agents, and owners or management of a property. 3. Records of any site visits by the department, its servants or agents to a property. 4. Records of any assessments or analysis carried out by the department, its servants or agents on a property. 5. Records of all communications between the department, its servants and agents, and a school concerning capacity and/or potential enrollments in the school. 6. Records of all communications between the department, its servants and agents, and a creche concerning capacity and potential enrollments in the creche. 7. Records of all communications between the department, its servants and agents, and a health centre and/or the HSE concerning capacity and future requirements at a health centre. 8. Records pertaining to any discussion, consideration or examination by the department of acquiring any premises in a village for any purpose, whether in fee simple, by licence or by lease or howsoever arising. The request is limited to records coming into existence 1 year prior to 25/01/2023 and up to and including the date of reply to the request.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Records held by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth relating to the provision of security services for International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) facilities in Dublin from January 2022 to present: Records identifying all contractors awarded contracts for the provision of security services at IPAS accommodation centres located in Dublin. Records showing any subcontractors or third-party companies engaged through these primary contractors to deliver security services at IPAS accommodation centres in Dublin. Records containing the following contract information for both primary contractors and subcontractors: contract duration and dates; key terms and conditions. Searches of any relevant mobile phones, private email addresses, and/or messaging services should be considered when processing this request.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Records held by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth relating to the provision of security services for International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) facilities outside Dublin city and county from January 2022 to present: Records identifying all contractors awarded contracts for the provision of security services at IPAS accommodation centres located outside Dublin. Records showing any subcontractors or third-party companies engaged through these primary contractors to deliver security services at IPAS accommodation centres outside Dublin. Records containing the following contract information for both primary contractors and subcontractors: contract duration and dates; key terms and conditions. Searches of any relevant mobile phones, private email addresses, and/or messaging services should be considered when processing this request.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Files on the decision to hold an official Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) for the first time in 2003. Correspondence between the Dept of Justice and the Holocaust Education Trust regarding the establishment of Holocaust Memorial Day in 2003. Correspondence with other government departments (Dept of Foreign Affairs; Dept of Finance; Dept of Taoiseach) regarding the government's decision in 2007 to become an observer member and decision in 2011 to become a full member of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research or ITF (renamed in 2013 as the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance)

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Copies of all records held referring or relating to proposals to house Ukrainian refugees on a cruise ship at Dublin Port.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Requesting records previously refused under FOI-0053-2022.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

All funding allocations made to the “Candle of Grace Charity”; (Mayo) from 1st January 2022 to date-Access to any and all records held by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Records relating to spend on flooring floor covering (carpets, carpet tiles, linoleum, wooden tiles, solid or semi-solid wood, or any other type of floor covering) in the department since 2025

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

All email records sent by officials at the Department of Integration containing the words "Gateway Two", "East Wall", "far right" and "protests". All email records from 31/07/2022 until 31/07/2023

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

All correspondence between your department and the coroner of Tipperary in 2019 during a forensic examination at a property All correspondence between your department and an individual in 2019 during a forensic examination at a property All correspondence between your department and the gardai in Tipperary in 2019 during a forensic examination at a property

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Correspondence, memos, briefing papers, reports etc prepared for officials and the minister on the feasibility, risks, costs, unintended consequences of introducing a €200 a month childcare scheme

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

1. Details of the ICT budget and planned ICT projects or initiatives for the current financial year (2025/26). 2. Documentation outlining planned ICT procurements for FY 2025/26, including (but not limited to) hardware, software, ICT maintenance agreements, and related services.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Any and all correspondence between Minister Norma Foley and the head of the 'Grace' Commission, since 01/01/2025 to date

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Copies of all completed audits; internal and external - conducted by or on behalf of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth of all organisations that receive public funding from the department. The time frame of this request is 01/01/2022 to date.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Any record which lists additional facilities or services recommended or provided in your department/office/body for cyclists since publication of the government's Climate Action Plan in 2022.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Any records which show or analyse the carbon footprints of persons for whom your department / office / body pays, directly or indirectly, travel expenses; any records which outline measures taken in your department / office / body to reduce carbon footprints associated with travel since the government's Climate Action Plan was published. Please focus on travel in 2021 and 2022 - I'm looking for internal guidelines or any internal circulars advising what staff should or should not do in order to reduce carbon footprints arising from travel to or from work, or more importantly, relating to national and international work-related travel.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Copies of e-submissions and attached documents to cover the period from 01/11/2023 - 04/02/2024.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Copies of e-submissions and attached documents to cover the period from 01/11/2023 - 04/02/2024.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

In the briefing note issued by the department on 15/12/2023 it is clearly stated at Par 6 on page 5: "A valid fire cert is in place and has been provided to the Department. All supporting fire and insurance documentation has been received". I require to be furnished with these documents pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Any internal memos or briefing documents the IPAS/department has produced in relation to protests outside Direct Provision centres and refugee accommodation centres during the period January 2021 to present.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

The time period for all actions below is 20/03/2024 to 22/04/2024: Any or all internal/external documents and correspondence (including instant messages, on Skype, Microsoft Teams, meeting minutes,briefingnotes, meeting invites etc) within the department regarding/relating to Scouting Ireland; Details of correspondence and documents exchanged between Scouting Ireland and the department including meeting invites, minutes, briefing notes, and memos. Including any or all communications regarding the Scouting Ireland EGM on the 21st of April 2024; Any correspondence and documents regarding any meeting of the Scouting Ireland officials and the department (as per the above dates), including emails, text, whats app, phone call records, meeting invites, meeting minutes and briefingnotes; Any and all emails, text, whats app, phone call records with Interim CEO, CFO & Safeguarding Manager of Scouting Ireland. The minutes and agenda of any meetings with these individuals or any other Scouting Ireland representative; Any correspondence from the public/members of the Oireachtas (including Oireachtas members staff members) to the department regarding Scouting Ireland.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

All internal audit reports for 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 to date including recommendations made in relation to their work as the Audit Authority for the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

1. All correspondence - to include but not limited to emails, text messages and electronic messages (such as whatsapp), between Minister for Integration Roderic O'Gorman and TD Michael Lowry. 2. All correspondence - to include but not limited to emails, text messages and electronic messages (such as whatsapp) - between Minister for Integration Roderic O'Gorman senior advisers and TD Michael Lowry. To cover the time period between 01/01/2022 - 15/01/2024.