Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed)
Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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With a group such as we are talking about, I know Ms Conduit cannot answer today but it would be reassuring for everybody if a senior civil servant - an assistant secretary - was leading that from the Department of Education and from other Departments as well. That would reassure survivors that the Department of Education and other Departments are taking this very seriously.
It was proposed by the Christine Buckley Centre that a health amendment card, designated for survivors of institutional abuse, Magdalen laundries and mother and baby homes, be established. Could that be done?