Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

Protests have been held this week at the former Crown Paints warehouse against its proposed use

Not for the first time, the Government’s response has been short-sighted, ad hoc and insufficient to the scale of the problem

Men, including Palestinians, were left with one toilet between 100 on arrival in ‘bitterly cold’ Crooksling

Company seeks payment plus daily interest of €610 on foot of unpaid invoices

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar admits referendums ‘defeated comprehensively’

International Protection Accommodation Service has said it can no longer offer beds to any but the most vulnerable male asylum seekers as it struggles to source accommodation

Many now in tents surrounding the offices, with many needing medical attention, campaigners say

The inquiry, chaired by senior counsel Marjorie Farrelly, was supposed to report two years after its establishment in 2017, but has now been delayed on multiple occasions

Roderic O’Gorman predicts family and care referendums will pass

Two 17-year-olds say they were denied entry to emergency accommodation in Citywest on Friday despite freezing temperatures

Bitter row within board of youth organisation worsens as Department of Children commissions review

Senior housing official says ‘serious risk’ asylum seekers left sleeping rough after leaving direct provision

Forcing builders to provide creches and including pre-school facilities in new primary schools could increase capacity

Sum estimated to fund supports for Ukrainian refugees, €1.49bn, down €30m on 2023 spend, according to Minister

Documents show internal Tusla concerns about ‘exodus’ of social workers leaving agency to join HSE

Child and family agency says Birth Information and Tracing service could ‘collapse’ if extra funding is not provided

Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil representatives among those to support the motion

Fiona Dunford said everybody is ‘sympathetic to the families and children who were moved in’

Despite a slowdown in the rate of closures last year compared with 2022, any indication of continued shrinkage of childcare availability is a big concern

Some 17 international protection applicants entered Racket Hall hotel on Monday amid scuffles between gardaí and protesters which saw one person arrested

Minister to receive report on situation amid concern about missing children, while gardaí carry out review of dedicated operation

Youth organisation accused of ‘critical vetting failure’ over training course including unvetted adults

Protest staged at Racket Hall which is to house 160 international protection applicants as local Independent TD says town is ‘overburdened’

Racket Hall Accommodation consists of a ‘large refurbished four-star hotel’ with amenities, according to briefing note

The Department of Integration said that the former Capuchin friary in Carlow was ‘one of a number of premises that will change use’

Fire occurred days after online claims the former guest house would be use to house asylum seekers

Office of watchdog for children’s interests was bumped down Civil Service salary scale from a maximum of €178,000 to up to €130,000

Protest to block access to former Gannon’s Hotel in Ballinrobe continues, with those taking part expressing doubts that plan shelved

Co Mayo town was due to take in international protection applicants from Monday

Department of Children ‘investigating’ allegations made by two board members of youth organisation

More than 60 cases of suspected sexual exploitation of children identified by authorities this year

Disinformation and fear-mongering around immigration have seeped into public consciousness on a scale like never before

Minister has sought financial contributions from seven Catholic bodies that ran homes or were linked to them

Roderic O’Gorman says money intended to give graduates 10 per cent pay increase given back ‘from my cold dead hand’

Comments on Galway hotel fire by two Fianna Fáil councillors referred to party’s internal rules and procedures body

Company secured contract to house International Protection applicants in 2022

Leo Varadkar was responding to Fianna Fáil TD John McGuinness in the Dáil on Wednesday, who said current policy was ‘not working’

Roderic O’Gorman expects single male applicants for International Protection to be turned away in coming days

Department of Integration facing increasing challenges amid growing community resistance

Among problems are ‘chronic lack of social workers’ and foster carers, says expert focused on childcare court cases