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Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Copies of all departmental Inspection Reports for an IPAS centre.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Any reports, emails and/or memos held by the Department of Integration and Immigration that refer to security incidents at an IPAS centre for a period of time from November 2022 to April 2025. These are to include, but not limited to, reports submitted to the Department of Integration informing about fires, suspected arson and/or threatening and violent incidents.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Any reports, emails, and/or memos held by the Department of Integration and Immigration that pertain to security incidents at International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) centres during the period of March 2024 to March 2025, specifically looking for incidents and reports submitted by the centre manager to the Department of Integration and/or threatening and violent incidents. This should include the number of Garda and Ambulance call outs.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Any reports, emails, and or memo held by your department, the Department of Integration and Immigration that pertain to security incidents at an IPAS Centre. From 01/06/2024 to date.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Any and all records, reports, or documentation relating to:Tree surgery or arboricultural work undertaken or commissioned at a property, including but not limited to: Tree maintenance, removal, or planting; Arborist assessments or reports; Correspondence or planning applications involving tree work; Environmental & water surveys, screenings, or assessments carried out at or in relation to a property, including: Ecological or habitat surveys; Environmental impact assessments; Biodiversity or protected species reports; Any findings, recommendations, or mitigation actions

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

How many incidents were recorded at International Protection Centres in 2024 (could I have a monthly breakdown). Breakdown of the type of incidents recorded. How many incidents were recorded at International Protection Centres in 2025. Breakdown of the type of incidents recorded.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Copy of the following references (invoices) pertaining to a hotel - Reference 67558 Reference 69301 Reference 49439

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

1. A copy of the contract or service agreement between DCEDIY and a company for conducting inspections of IPAS accommodation centres, including hotels and emergency accommodation 2. Any documents outlining the scope of work, deliverables, or performance metrics agreed upon in relation to this contract. 3. What mechanism is in place to review Inspections that are completed (please provide) by a company and a list of all inspections that need to be forwarded to Tusla or any outside agency.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

A copy of original EOI documentation in respect of a recent (2025) IPAS contract awarded to a limited company, trading as a hotel. Any response or follow-up documentation in respect of this EOI.- A copy of the assessment of the premises, and any other supporting documentation used to assess the suitability of the premises that was offered for use as accommodation for international protection applicants. Please include all information regarding statutory requirements including health and safety, fire certificates, building regulations and staffing requirements.- A copy of all correspondence with the DCEDIY and a local authority in respect of the recent IPAS contract awarded to a limited company, including any checks/assessments completed by a local authority in respect of the granting of the contract.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Any reports, emails, and/or memos held by the Department of Integration and Immigration that pertain to security incidents at International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) centres during the period of October 2024 to March 2025 - at (1) an IPAS Centre in county Mayo, (2) an IPAS centre in county Mayo, and (3) an IPAS Centre in County Mayo. Incident reports submitted by the centre managers to the Department of Integration informing about fires, suspected arson attacks, and/or threatening and violent incidents between 01/10/2024 and 31/03/2025.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Anonymized data (aggregated, non-identifiable statistics) for the calendar year 2024, on the total number of births recorded among residents of: (1) an IPAS Centre in county Mayo, (2) an IPAS centre in county Mayo, and (3) an IPAS Centre in County Mayo.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

A list/record of all submissions made to the Minister or Ministers of State at your department (if applicable) using the e-submissions system (or whatever relevant/similar system is in place at your department) in the period 01/07/2024 to the date of receipt of this request.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Any record which shows the budget set aside in your FOI body for the EU presidency in 2025 or 2026, and any record which shows staffing implications in 2025 and 2026 arising from the Irish EU Presidency

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Withdrawal notices from Core Funding received from Partner Services since 2023. A list of the services that have withdrawn from the Core Funding programme since 2023 or provide withdrawal notices/communication received by the department informing them that they would be withdrawing from the programme.

Department 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].

Department 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).

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

This request relates to the Redress Scheme for the Mother and Baby Homes. I am wondering if you would be able to disclose or provide me with Minister O’Gorman’s reasoning that lead to his decision of the exclusion of 24,000 survivors as part of the scheme.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

release of the Review of the National LGBTI+ Inclusion Strategy produced by Mazars. 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.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Contracts and tenders re provision of media monitoring services

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Introductory letters sent by Roderic O'Gorman's office to the eight religious orders [Follow on request from FOI-0155-2025]

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

List of the early years services that are operating through the medium of Irish.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Record which shows the total number of mobile phones used in Ireland (excluding phones used by staff routinely based in Northern Ireland) by your organisation at the end of 2024.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

A copy of all records (emails, reports, briefings, meeting minutes, text and whatsapp messages, etc) concerning the decision-making process to endorse the Global Guidelines for Countering Antisemitism and/or the IHRA's non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism; A copy of any correspondence and/or briefings outlining criticisms of the Global Guidelines for Countering Antisemitism and/or the IHRA's non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism and/or potentials risks with the endorsement of either by the Irish State and/or government

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

List of any properties in County Tipperary where an application has been made to accommodate displaced persons seeking international protection in said location. List of locations in the county where an application has been made to convert a property, vacant or otherwise, into an IPAS centre. How many of these applications have been refused or approved as well as how many are currently awaiting a response? Where in the county these properties are located?

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Submission made by your department to Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga in 2024 concerning the reporting of advertising activities and Irish language advertising by your department in 2023

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

There has been news of 98 internationals coming to a village. Can you please provide me with the email you sent to an individual detailing the plans.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

The contracts register for your department / office / body, excluding any contract for security-related services, systems or processes, and also excluding any commercially sensitive information.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

All submissions made to the Inter-Departmental Committee (chaired by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth) which was established to examine the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality and the Special Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality, and to support the government in the development of policy proposals regarding Referendums on Family, Care and Gender Equalityall records created by the above-named Inter- Departmental Committee.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

A list of all organisations that made submissions to the Inter- Departmental Committee (chaired by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth) which was established to examine the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality and the Special Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality, and to support the Government in the development of policy proposals regarding Referendums on Family, Care and Gender Equality.

Department 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

Department 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

Department 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.

Department 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

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Formal pre-budget submissions [for IPAS] for Budget 2025

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Email correspondence [with a charity] that's not just exchange of people's names, excluding all spreadsheets, for [Oct 2024 and Nov 2024]

Department 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.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Copy of any reports, memos, submissions, recommendations or other such high-level documents surrounding the provision of accommodation to international protection applicants living in tents during periods of very cold or stormy weather conditions to cover the period 01/09/2024 to date.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Records on the geographical incidence of autism, and autism and intellectual disability in Ireland please from the years 2010 until the present date of 14/12/2024.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

A list of contracts for ‘public relations’ or ‘crisis management’ or ‘press work’ in 2020 containing details of - Purpose and Timeframe of contract; Name of company awarded to; Names any other companies who also applied for the contract; Value of the contract.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Correspondence between Scouting Ireland DCEDIY (including the minister, junior minister(s) and staff) and internal documents/briefing notes and minutes regarding Scouting Ireland during December 2020.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

1) Communications in reference to the death of a person in an Emergency Accommodation centre in County Monaghan in August 2020. 2) Communications with Trenthall Limited, with the M Hotel (Treacy's Hotel) Monaghan, in reference to the death of a person in an Emergency Accommodation centre in County Monaghan in August 2020. 3) The number of people who have died while a resident in a Direct Provision Centre or Emergency Accommodation Centre in Counties Cavan and Monaghan since 2018.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Correspondence between the Office of Roderic O'Gorman and the Department of An Taoiseach regarding leaks relating to the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation report.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

A) Individuals or Groups who have applied for funding under the Asylum Migration and Integration Fund 2014-2020 since its inception. B) A copy of all applications made to the scheme since the beginning of this year January 2020. C) A full financial breakdown of the cost of the scheme since its inception detailing the payments paid to various groups.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Any correspondence or reports made to the Minister for Children concerning the welfare of homeless children and families in the year 2020

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

All correspondence between the Minister of this department, the Departments staff and Scouting Ireland relating to Scouting Ireland for the period 1 September to 31 October.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

All correspondence since 2017 relating to the World Scout Moot 2021 that is due to take place in Ireland (it has now been postponed to 2021), including funding applications, receipts provided for funding and remittance information.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Copies of all correspondence between Minister Roderic O'Gorman and religious organisations following the publication of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby homes report on 12/1/2021.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Communications between Department officials regarding: 1 - The suspension of ECCE and NCS subsidies for childcare providers which have closed as of 11 January 2021, dating from 3 January 2021 to 14 January 2021. 2 - The possible extension of level 5 lockdown and childcare closure for non-essential workers beyond January 31 2021, dating from 3 January 2021 to 14th January 2021. Any memos prepared for the Minister on the subject of childcare closures dating from 3 January 2021 to 14 January 2021.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

A copy of all Briefings prepared on the topic of Direct Provision between 1st August 2020 and 15th January 2021. 2. Any correspondence (sent and received, including any attachments) between the Secretary General and the Minister on the topic of direct provision between 1st October 2020 and 15th January 2021.

Department of Children, Disability and Equality

Correspondence with: 1 - The following politicians,: Taoiseach Michael Martin, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and the Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe, regarding the Covid-19 response in Direct Provision centres between 1st December 2020 and 14th January 2021 2 - IHREC regarding the Covid-19 response in Direct Provision between 1st December 2020 and 14th January 2021 3 - Direct Provision Centres in Ireland regarding the Covid-19 response in Direct Provision Centres between 1st December 2020 and 14th January 2021.