Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

Letter to ministers Darragh O’Brien and Roderic O’Gorman warned movements are having ‘devastating impact’ on children’s rights

Department of Children has received applications for fee increases from more than 800 childcare providers

Party’s election manifesto to propose new body called the Asylum and Integration Agency which would bring together functions carried out by existing agencies

Report of Child Law Project ‘sounds the alarm’ says special rapporteur on child protection

More than 10,000 emergency beds were already occupied by homeless people in Dublin last month

Two years ago about 375 Syrians were interviewed in Lebanon by Irish officials and told they would be resettled in Ireland before 2024. They’re still waiting - amid bombs, deprivation and discrimination. Sally Hayden spoke to some of those people, who feel trapped, scared and forgotten

Giraffe Childcare operates 24 creches around Dublin, Kildare and Meath

Scheme would cater for 6,000 children across a range of different services intended to be representative of the current sector

Court reporting project that highlighted failures in care system stood down after State funding runs out

Human rights body asks court to reconsider making order forcing State to vindicate the asylum seekers’ rights

Additional options include introduction of ‘maximum stay’ rule focused on exiting Ukrainians who have been in State accommodation for the longest time first

Possible options for 1970s property include eight-storey office building, 133-room hotel or 154-unit student accommodation block

Gardaí were alerted by Waterways Ireland staff patrolling area

Number of 4,000 at the start of last year has now risen to more than 16,000

National Women’s Council and 25 other organisations want pilot programme established

Plan to use former nursing home site for international protection applicants stalls following concerns

Yusuf was among 73 people taken on board the Médecins Sans Frontières Geo Barents ship off Libya

Department of Integration hopes to open Thornton Hall site for accommodation in the coming weeks which will allow international protection triaging to continue

Nearly 190 accommodation contracts for Ukrainian housing have ended since the start of the summer

Internal briefing warns of ‘severe demands’ put on Tusla service for child asylum seekers