Department of Children, Disability and Equality
FOI Requests — 1,172 records (page 19 of 24)
- Received —Decided 19 August 2022Part-GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Meeting minutes, discussion papers and meeting agendas of the independent oversight group for the white paper on ending direct provision, from establishment, to date.
- Received —Decided 17 August 2022GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
I am seeking copies of the following: The Department's Records Management Policy. Any guidelines, procedures or manuals compiled as part of the Department's Records Management programme, including Records Retention/Disposal Schedules. The minutes of meetings held during 2021 and 2022 by any records management committee, steering group or similar body operating within the Department
- Received —Decided 8 August 2022RefusedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Contracts with commercial hotels for housing Ukrainian refugees.
- Received —Decided 8 August 2022Part-GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Correspondence between DCEDIY and D/Defence regarding emergency accommodation for Ukrainian refugees
- Received —Decided 4 August 2022RefusedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
1) A list of all training courses provided by Advance HE under the Athena SWAN programme since 2003; 2) A list of all reports and consultations commissioned by the Department from Advance HE/Athena SWAN since 2003; and 3) The total costs of all such courses, consultations and reports.
- Received —Decided 19 July 2022Part-GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
All records relating to any submissions made to your department to retain the word "woman" in the Maternity Protect Act as outlined in the Scheme of Work Life Balance Bill. All records relating to any submissions made to your department seeking to erase the word "woman" from the Maternity Protection Act and replace it with "person" All minutes of meetings and discussions where this issue was raised and where the final decision to replace "woman" with "person" was made. All responses issued by your department in relation to the request to retain the word "woman" in the Maternity Protection Act. All responses issued by your department in relation to the request to replace the word "woman" with "person" in the Maternity Protection Act.
- Received —Decided 18 July 2022RefusedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Records relating to the cost, usage case, and any modelling underpinning the decision to lease the Citywest complex for Ukrainian refugees and all correspondence with DPER regarding same
- Received —Decided 14 July 2022GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
A copy of an email, including the attachment, sent on March 7th by a member of the Equality & Gender Equality Team. The email was entitled "Save the Date: Side events at the 66th session of the UN Commission for the Status of Women."
- Received —Decided 14 July 2022GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Copies of any correspondence between the Minister or the Secretary General for the Department and the Red Cross regarding the migration programme/pledges by Irish families for accommodation for Ukrainian refugees, donations to the Red Cross and how money fundraised will be spent between 01 March - 14 April 2022
- Received —Decided 12 July 2022GrantedDepartment 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
- Received —Decided 12 July 2022RefusedDepartment 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.
- Received —Decided 12 July 2022RefusedDepartment 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.
- Received —Decided 5 July 2022Part-GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Minutes of meetings of the Programme Board and the External Advisory Committee referenced in a PQ
- Received —Decided 24 June 2022Part-GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Records relating to pest control at Oberstown Children Detention Campus, including inspection and service reports created by service providers, invoices, correspondence with the service providers, and internal correspondence relating to pest control covering the period January 1, 2020 to the present date.
- Received —Decided 24 June 2022RefusedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
In relation to all CCTV cameras that you have procured from 2017 until the present, please provide: - the names of each company and the names of the products including the model numbers - the contracts with each company - the cost per unit and the total costs, and - the duration of contracts and/or licenses. Please provide records that state the capability of the CCTV cameras (along with their storage and processing units whether locally, on a server or in the cloud), such as facial recognition, temperature/thermal scanning, behaviour analysis, object detection or demographic detection (i.e. age, gender, clothing etc). For all CCTV cameras procured between 2019 and present, please also provide the documents and communication (such as letters and emails) involving the company that was awarded the contract.
- Received —Decided 15 June 2022GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
All records and correspondencerelating to Fergal Lynch's public policy role at NUI Galway between the Dept of Children and other Government department and agencies, including correspondence relating to funding by the exchequer through the Department of Higher Education. Name, title and details of the research programme, Mr Lynch's salary, its annual funding and duration of the programme, and details on the competitive process (if any) that was conducted to approve this programme.The time span involved covers the period from when contact was first made with other Government Departments and NUIG in relation to the arrangement to when Mr Lynch took up his position.
- Received —Decided 19 May 2022Part-GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
All documents showing how the Department decided to grant funds to Teni (Transgender Equality Network Ireland) from January 2020 to date. Please include any evaluations or reviews of how this money was spent and and copies of any reviews considering Teni's lack of financial accounts and its application(s) for state aid.
- Received —Decided 5 May 2022Part-GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
All agendas, minutes, notes, correspondence and reports relating to Minister Roderic O'Gorman's meetings with Senator Fintan Warfield and members of the Anti Conversion Therapy Coalition (ACTC) group. To include a meeting in June 2021 and all others.
- Received —Decided 4 May 2022Part-GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
The department's submission for Ireland's Fifth and Sixth State Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (February 2022) says "research was commissioned to inform the development of a system for under 16s. A scoping exercise aims to finalise the research specifications soon. It is expected research findings will inform the development of a system robust enough to support children while minimising associated risks" This request sought a copy of all documents, briefing notes, emails and internal discussion documents relating to the commissioning of this research and the scoping exercise to inform the development of a system for u16s referred to in the UN submission and a copy of all documents, briefing notes, emails and internal discussion documents relating to research specifications referred to in this section of the UN submission
- Received —Decided 11 April 2022RefusedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
In the past five years, how many sexual harassment incidents have been reported to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth?
- Received —Decided 1 April 2022RefusedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
I wish to request the following records under the Freedom of Information Act 2014:With regard to Ireland's Sustainable Development Goal 5.5, as laid out in Ireland's current plan, and the associated High Level Objective Number 4 (Advance women in leadership at all levels), I request information on the guidance and directives that have been issued to the Human Resources Departments of Irish Local authorities by The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in relation to their recruitment and promotion policies to ensure compliance with, and/or to meet, this specific objective?
- Received —Decided 31 March 2022GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Submissions made to Minister
- Received —Decided 28 March 2022Part-GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Provision of food in DP centres
- Received —Decided 25 March 2022RefusedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Records of IDG on birth and tracing
- Received —Decided 23 March 2022RefusedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Correspondence with Ruhama
- Received —Decided 15 March 2022RefusedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Minister's correspondence with Minister for State and Tusla
- Received —Decided 14 March 2022RefusedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Correspondence with Tusla Senior Management
- Received —Decided 8 March 2022RefusedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Supports for people whose births were illegally registered
- Received —Decided 7 March 2022GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Database/list if complaints received by IPAS
- Received —Decided 1 March 2022Part-GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Correspondence with religious institutions
- Received —Decided 28 February 2022RefusedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Correspondence with Department of Justice
- Received —Decided 25 February 2022Part-GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Data Protection Impact Assessments regarding tracing bill
- Received —Decided 25 February 2022RefusedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Minutes of the Programme Board on Ending Direct Provision
- Received —Decided 18 February 2022Part-GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Correspondence with Scouting Ireland
- Received —Decided 14 February 2022GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Personal health records
- Received —Decided 11 February 2022Part-GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Extension of the deadline on Equality Acts
- Received —Decided 10 February 2022RefusedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Correspondence between requester and FOI staff
- Received —Decided 8 February 2022RefusedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Correspondence between Focus Ireland and Minister's Office regarding homeless families
- Received —Decided 8 February 2022Part-GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Tendering and procurement of research into conversion therapy
- Received —Decided 8 February 2022GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Briefing on new assylum seekers or capacity at DP centres
- Received —Decided 8 February 2022Part-GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Ministerial briefing regarding surrogacy
- Received —Decided 3 February 2022RefusedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Witness statements from MBH commission of investigation
- Received 4 July 2024Decided —WithdrawnDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Salary & expenses for the Special Advocate for the course of the five years. Costs relating to ad campaigns, staffing & administration which is being paid out of the Mother & Baby Home Redress Scheme Funds [from July 2022 to the present].
- Received 4 July 2024Decided —WithdrawnDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
The report provided to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, detailing the proposals submitted by tenderers in response to the tender for mental health services organized by the Waterford Children and Young People's Services Committee (CYPSC).
- Received 3 October 2024Decided —RefusedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
All correspondence between The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and a local authority relating to the emergency accommodation for International Protection Applicants run by a company at a property in the period 01/10/2024 to 07/11/2024. All contracts and draft contracts between The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and a company
- Received 16 October 2024Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Correspondence, including emails, minutes/notes of meetings, telephone conversations, held in respect of the potential granting and actual awarding of all contract types for the provision of asylum services in two properties. This to include inter-departmental and procurement discussions and processes concerning asylum service provision in both locations. In the absence of any contracts being in place any emails, minutes of meetings notes, notes of telephone conversations and any written record as to why contracts were not awarded. Copies of the contracts (if any) awarded. - Records in respect of a property sought from January to May 2022 -Records in respect of a property sought from 2023 to present
- Received 17 October 2024Decided —Handled outside of FOIDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Correspondence related to the use of social media influencers by the department including details of which influencers the department has engaged in paid partnerships with and how much these influencers have been paid for their work to cover the period 01/01/2023 to 17/10/2024.
- Received 17 October 2024Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Internal correspondence at PO level and above related to the implementation of the Asylum and Migration Pact, between 01/08/2024 and 17/10/2024. Copies of any briefing prepared for the Minister on implementation of the Asylum and Migration Pact, between 01/06/2024 and 17/10/2024. Correspondence between the department secretary general and the secretary generals of any other departments, on the implementation of the Asylum and Migration Pact, between 01/06/2024 and 17/10/2024
- Received 23 October 2024Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
Formal pre-budget submissions [for IPAS] for Budget 2025
- Received 25 November 2024Decided —RefusedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
I would like to know who gave Roderic O'Gorman permission to send out a tweet in eight different languages to invite the world here with their own door accommodation.