451. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children in State care who have experienced three or more placement changes, in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33785/26]
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452. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department or Tusla maintains any national benchmarks, targets, or internal performance indicators in respect of time-to-permanency for children in care; if not, the rationale for the absence of such targets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33786/26]
453. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any internal analysis, audit, or review has been undertaken in the past five years to assess delays in permanency planning for children in State care; if so, to provide details and findings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33787/26]
454. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Ireland benchmarks its performance in achieving permanency outcomes for children in care against other EU or comparable jurisdictions; and if so, to provide details of such comparisons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33788/26]
455. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children who have remained in State care for more than five years without achieving reunification, adoption, or guardianship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33789/26]
456. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any statutory or policy-based maximum timeframe exists for achieving permanency for children in State care; if not, whether consideration has been given to introducing such a framework; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33790/26]
457. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the governance and oversight arrangements in place to monitor delays in permanency outcomes for children in State care, including any reporting obligations to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33791/26]
744. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of emergency child removals carried out under sections 12 and 13 of the Child Care Act 1991 in each of the past five years, in tabular form, broken down by region and by the legal basis for removal. [32382/26]
745. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla maintains a centralised dataset capturing emergency child removals under sections 12 and 13 of the Child Care Act 1991; if so, the variables recorded within that dataset; and if she will provide details. [32383/26]
746. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any trend analysis has been conducted by Tusla or her Department in respect of emergency child removals under sections 12 and 13 of the Child Care Act 1991; and if so, the findings of such analysis. [32384/26]
747. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has assessed regional variation in the use of emergency child removal powers under sections 12 and 13 of the Child Care Act 1991; and if so, the outcome of that assessment. [32385/26]
748. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether consideration has been given to classifying emergency child removal decisions under sections 12 and 13 of the Child Care Act 1991 as a systemic or governance risk within Tusla's corporate risk framework; and if so, the outcome of that consideration. [32386/26]
749. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the criteria used by Tusla to determine when patterns in frontline child protection interventions escalate to a strategic or corporate risk requiring inclusion on the National Corporate Risk Register. [32387/26]
750. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality how her Department satisfies itself that emergency child removal powers under sections 12 and 13 of the Child Care Act 1991 are applied consistently nationwide in the absence of formal trend analysis reporting from Tusla. [32388/26]
751. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reporting mechanisms in place between Tusla and her Department in respect of emergency child removals under sections 12 and 13 of the Child Care Act 1991; and the frequency and format of such reporting [32389/26]
752. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any external review, audit or inspection has been undertaken in the past five years examining the use of emergency child removal powers under sections 12 and 13 of the Child Care Act 1991; and if so, the findings. [32390/26]
753. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she has requested or plans to request the development of national reporting or oversight mechanisms relating to emergency child removals under sections 12 and 13 of the Child Care Act 1991; and if not, the reason. [32391/26]
458. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether emergency child removal decisions under sections 12 and 13 of the Child Care Act 1991 are explicitly identified within Tusla’s corporate risk register as a governance or systemic risk category; whether the Tusla board reports trend analysis on such removals to her Department; and if she will outline the reporting mechanism involv…
459. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla’s internal audit function, or any external audit process since 2018, has examined evidential thresholds, proportionality standards, or quality assurance mechanisms in relation to section 13 emergency care order applications; and whether any reports or recommendations were made available to her Department [15824/26]
460. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any national policy guidance approved, noted or overseen by her Department requires Tusla to apply disability-informed assessment protocols, reasonable accommodation standards, or specialist procedural safeguards when child protection proceedings involve a parent with a diagnosed autism spectrum condition or intellectual disabili…
845. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department formally reviewed the 2023 University College Dublin report on sexual exploitation risks for children in residential and emergency care; the status of its recommendations (including how many were accepted, implemented or remain outstanding); the policy or regulatory changes which have been made in response; whether…
888. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has prepared a formal implementation plan, action tracker, or recommendation matrix in response to the 2023 University College Dublin report entitled “Protecting Against Predators: A Scoping Study on the Sexual Exploitation of Children and Young People in Ireland”; if so, the date on which it was approved; whether …
889. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a numbered breakdown of each recommendation contained in the 2023 University College Dublin report on sexual exploitation risks in residential and emergency care; to state, in respect of each recommendation, whether it has been accepted in full, accepted in principle, rejected, or remains under consideration; the implementatio…
890. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether a formal cross-departmental or inter-agency oversight group was established to coordinate the State response to the 2023 University College Dublin report; if so, the date of establishment, its chairing authority, the Departments and agencies represented, the number of meetings held to date, and whether minutes or progress reports…
891. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether compliance with any policy or procedural changes arising from the 2023 University College Dublin report is subject to formal monitoring or audit; whether such monitoring forms part of a centrally approved governance framework within her Department; and to outline the performance indicators or reporting mechanisms used to assess i…