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Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank all the Deputies for their contributions. I reiterate that the Government is deeply conscious of the trauma which has been experienced by all survivors of abuse, including those who were resident in institutions such as industrial schools and reformatories. Nothing can ever make up for the pain and suffering endured by survivors. I would also like to echo the Minister, Deputy...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I want to pay tribute to the survivors from the County Clare Nursery, Kilrush, and thank and acknowledge Ms Rita McCarthy in west Clare for all of her work and research that brought that little piece of history to life for us in west Clare. It is extremely disappointing that the Government has continued with this legislation for survivors, which allows for any survivors to be excluded. I...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. There are 21 sections and 4 Parts. There has been no regulatory impact analysis and no explanation has been given for that. It faced pre-legislative scrutiny. A detailed report was carried out, which gave a detailed background and had ten key recommendations in addition to other recommendations. I understand all ten have been completely...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: There will be much agreement about the State's dreadful history of institutional abuse. As my colleagues and many others have said, an enormous number of people were put into institutions against their will. Those institutions include mother and baby homes, institutional schools and all those places where this State has a dark history and where people were very badly treated. We all know...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Martin Browne: What we must bear in mind when discussing this Bill is whether its provisions reflect the needs of survivors of institutional abuse. They are the ones whose lives were changed due to the conditions and treatment to which they were subject. We cannot forget that their lives have also been shaped by the disregard shown to them in the decades subsequent to their confinement in places like Sean...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Mark Ward: I wish to share time with Deputies Ó Laoghaire and Ó Murchú.

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Mark Ward: I was a member of the Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when I heard at first hand the heartbreaking testimonies of those affected by the mother and baby homes. The last time I spoke on this issue, I read testimonies that survivors made to the commission of investigation. I will read again some of these testimonies because it is important to hear these...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Before I got up to speak, I was thinking that in this House we have got into a habit of making very sincere and profound apologies. Very often, the quality of the apology is very good, and I do not wish in any way to take away from some of the apologies that have been made recently, which were sincere and well articulated, but what we are not always so good at is the follow-through. That...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: There are no precise, up-to-date data on the number of survivors of abuse in residential institutions who are still alive today but I can tell you they are not getting any younger. Therefore, we all need to work together to have this Bill enacted quickly. This is of the utmost importance. As of 31 December 2015, the Residential Institutions Redress Board had made awards of compensation...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I am thankful for the opportunity to speak on the Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024. The State has repeatedly let down survivors of residential institutional abuse and this legislation is yet another example. It is interesting that this legislation is being put forward by the Department of Education. We had the Department of children previously. It...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: This is something the Minister has inherited. It is before his time but it is within the remit of the whole House to rectify wrongdoing. People were put into institutions and used as free labour under terrible conditions. Their families were taken from them and they were dispersed with no records, and in cases where there were records they were hidden. I have met many survivors of...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Michael Collins: With the Chair's indulgence, I welcome my sister Kay Lynch from Bantry and Geraldine O'Donovan from Ovens to the Gallery today. We are here to shed light on a distressing reality that many survivors of institutional abuse are currently grappling with. These individuals who have already endured so much are now facing long waits, often exceeding a year, to access crucial counselling...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I acknowledge the presence of the Minister of State and thank him. I will say about this very important issue that every person goes through life and some people have good luck and good fortune and more people do not. Unfortunately, the people who found themselves in these institutions were very important human beings but were subjected to degrading practices. They were degraded and upset....