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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Estates management is a key. The Minister has just spoken about building new 96-bed blocks. In the mid-west region, and this is probably replicated nationwide, there are a lot of public healthcare facilities lying idle. Inisgile is a 16-bed mental health facility located in my home parish of Parteen that briefly opened as a vaccination centre for Covid. In 2019, it was fully refitted and...

Seanad: Report of the Independent Review Group on Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Statements (25 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...dtús báire agus cuirim fáilte roimh an deis na ráitis tábhachtacha seo a phlé inniu. A few weeks ago the Dáil also debated the report from the independent review group that reviewed the dignity and equality issues in the Defence Forces and its treatment of its personnel, male and female but in particular female members. The comments in the Dáil...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Apr 2023)

Mark Ward: 466. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects the first person who was a child in the Mother and Baby Homes to receive redress under the new scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19050/23]

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023) See 8 other results from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: Today, I am bringing the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 before this House. This Bill, when enacted, will allow the Government to deliver a statutory scheme that will provide financial payments and a form of enhanced medical card to thousands of mother and baby and county home institution survivors. I look forward to working with Senators to discuss the Bill further...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...last week of term. It's gotten to the point that I may not be able to take my job up next September because I have nowhere to live in the vicinity. In a few short weeks, she faces eviction from the home she has rented for seven years. She has tried to find alternative rented accommodation and she has tried to buy a home but all to no avail. Aoife, a teacher with a raft of specialist...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Apr 2023)

Lisa Chambers: We will engage with the Minister's office and determine what is appropriate in terms of facilitating the debate on all the issues and ensuring an opportunity in the House to debate the report. The report is an important body of work that was commissioned and published by the committee. Senator Warfield spoke about rents going up by 25%. Everyone is aware that the rental sector is under...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 1177. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that the State forensic investigators are to acquire advanced new technology to allow them to identify relatives of children buried at Tuam Mother and Baby Home; and if he will allow relatives as distant as half nieces and nephews and cousins to be matched to remains; and if he will make a...

Address by Mr. Joseph Biden, President of the United States of America (13 Apr 2023)

President Joseph Biden: Well Mom, you said it would happen; and, Margot, I apologise to you little baby girl - the idea that you have to listen to the President of the United States deliver a policy speech is as bad as what my children have been put through. Speaking of my children, my son, Hunter, is with me and my sister and best friend in the world, Valerie, is also with me. As the...

Seanad: Address by Mr. Joseph Biden, President of the United States of America (13 Apr 2023)

President Joseph Biden: Well Mom, you said it would happen; and, Margot, I apologise to you little baby girl - the idea that you have to listen to the President of the United States deliver a policy speech is as bad as what my children have been put through. Speaking of my children, my son, Hunter, is with me and my sister and best friend in the world, Valerie, is also with me. As the...

Report of the Independent Review Group on Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am deeply grateful I am to the Women of Honour, whom I welcome to the Public Gallery, and to all the women who came forward to give first-hand accounts of their experiences, both members and former members. I too want to recognise Katie Hannon. We should not be in a position where we have to wait for RTÉ to do a "Prime Time Investigates" programme before we react to some of this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ..., sna seachtainí agus sna míonna atá amach romhainn. Sin na fíricí. The reality of our broken housing system does not seem to have dawned on the Tánaiste or any of his Government colleagues because if it had, they would not have voted last night again to make more people homeless in the coming days, weeks and months. The Tánaiste should listen back...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Adoption Services (30 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...the Minister said how many of the applications are waiting for longer than the statutory time period, but maybe I missed it. That was one of my questions. We all knew there was going to be thousands of applications when the Minister set out the timeframes for responses. People have been waiting for decades to access this really basic information about themselves. Every time I and other...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (30 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 29. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of his engagements with survivor and relative groups concerning potential interventions at the sites of former mother and baby homes. [15562/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (30 Mar 2023)

Kathleen Funchion: 222. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a director of authorised interventions has been appointed; when he expects an appointment; and if he will confirm whether Bessborough will be looked at alongside Tuam. [15396/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (30 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Birth Information and Tracing Act was signed into law on 30 June 2022, and all services established under the Act are open to applications since 03 October 2022. The Act provides for the release of birth, early life, care, and medical information to persons who were adopted, boarded out or nursed out, subject to an illegal birth registration, or resided in a mother and baby home or...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for the response and I echo his words of commendation for the immense work of, and the bravery shown by, members of the Defence Forces, who are renowned worldwide for their commitment to peacekeeping and for the immense service they have given on missions overseas for many years. However, I also acknowledge that, as the Taoiseach has said, the findings of this report...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (29 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: 142. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider a thorough forensic investigation of the existing grounds at the Bessborough mother and baby home site in Blackrock, County Cork, in order to establish whether there is a mass grave on the site. [15614/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (28 Mar 2023)

Paul Murphy: 508. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the campaign to save the existing grounds of Bessborough House, the former mother and baby institution, from development; if he will ensure there is a thorough forensic investigation on the grounds to establish the presence of a mass grave there; if he will ensure a director of authorised...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (28 Mar 2023)

James Lawless: 511. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the mother and baby homes redress payment scheme will be put in place; how a person can go about receiving their payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14935/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (28 Mar 2023)

Alan Dillon: 537. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason institutions (details supplied) were omitted from the mother-and-baby institutions payment scheme, despite the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth advising that they should be included; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15426/23]