Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

To be helpful, the Deputy will remember how I proposed at yesterday's meeting that we write to the Department about how to learn from the Caranua process.

Obviously, many survivors benefited from the work of Caranua. In some cases there were appeals, where applications failed and so on and people were not happy, but an awful lot of people were satisfied. Deputy Murphy may recall that at yesterday's meeting I asked that in its correspondence and in our dealing with the Department of Education we would highlight the issue of the use of that learning. We are going to have more redress boards etc. in respect of the mother and baby homes, and there are all the issues around adoption as well to come up. The other issue we have highlighted to them is to revert to us on the issue of legislation. I asked yesterday for that to be included when the legislation for the wind-down of Caranua comes before the Houses. I was under the impression that the legislation would arrive straightaway after Christmas, as soon as we came back after the Christmas break, and that it would be before the House. I do not know. Maybe some of the Deputies can advise me as to whether it is due to appear on an Order Paper any time in the near future, but we asked that question directly yesterday and we will seek clarification on that, so we are on it.

Two issues have been flagged up here. One is that there is a question as to where this €15,000 limit came from and whether it is underpinned by legislation. We will ask that question of Caranua. We will also bring to its attention when we correspond back with Caranua that committee members did have the permission of the two survivors to raise the issue with Caranua and that Caranua was aware of the case. Is that agreed?