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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: Notwithstanding that, the bottom line in terms of allocation of housing is need, whatever that need might be. The weight given will be on the basis of the individual and his or her needs, as opposed to a general weighting. No two individuals who present will have a similar need.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: That is improving day by day. I sat a long number of years on a local authority which was not building any houses. Now we are seeing houses being built by local authorities and things are improving in that respect. The bottom line for local authorities is to provide housing on the basis of need. We cannot take away from that. Every need is adjudicated on an individual basis. We are...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: Sage Advocacy has engaged with a number of other bodies, including the Christine Buckley Centre, Right of Place Second Chance, Towards Healing, One in Four, Barnardos, Focus Ireland and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, as well as Crosscare and other bodies and agencies across the UK. There is a relationship between them and other agencies in terms of support. In response to Deputy...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: I thank the Deputies. The figure of €3,000 for survivors who are resident outside the State is being made because they will not avail of the health supports and services provided by the HSE. That is the payment that was also proposed and made in respect of mother and baby institutions. It ensures that there is equity or equality between both groups and that they are being treated...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: The official work between the two departments has been going on for a long number of months, by way of the officials of the Department. In the past number of days, I have also formally written to support their work.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: Sorry, I should also acknowledge the Irish Embassy in relation to that work.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: It is my understanding that €3,000 is the entitlement of a person who draws it down and is in receipt of it when he or she is in the UK. I will not put the Deputy astray, however. I will have to check that to see whether, on a person's return, he or she could start again. I will not lead the Deputy astray on that. I will have to check and revert to her.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: As I said, this figure was agreed for the mother and baby home institutional payment scheme. In order that there is equity between the two schemes, that is the figure.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: I thank the Deputy. I also appreciate what Deputy Pringle said. On the question of whether the payment will impact on the entitlement of their children - it will not. On the earlier question both Deputies raised around the payment of educational supports, to be clear, it is a payment ranging from €500 to €1,200 for further education. Once somebody has registered for a...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: I imagine it closed once the funding was expedited.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: The purpose of section 21 is to amend the mother and baby institutions payment scheme 2023 to take account of the supports to be provided under this Bill. The 2023 Act currently provides that a person who has benefitted from the Magdalen laundries scheme will not be eligible for a health support payment and the proposed amendment will ensure this will also apply to former residents who...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: I acknowledge the work of this committee, particularly during pre-legislative scrutiny. I thank the committee and the Chair for their work today.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: I thank the members of the committee for scheduling this meeting to facilitate Committee Stage of the Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024 and for their engagement throughout the pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill. As I noted on Second Stage, I am deeply conscious of the enormous trauma that has been endured by all survivors of abuse and I know that nothing...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: I appreciate the opportunity to express my support for the EU migration and asylum pact. Migration has been always with us and has been always a part of the fabric of our life here. We in Ireland have a particular affinity with the United States, for example, and so many of our people went to the United States when times were very difficult here in Ireland, so we in Ireland have an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year over 161,600 children, including over 135,000 pupils traveling on primary and post primary services, 19,800 pupils with special educational needs, and 6,800 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine are transported on a daily basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: Teaching allocations are determined by the enrolment of the school on the previous 30th September. This process enables the Department to have in place the necessary measures to assess the accuracy of returns and thereby strengthen the integrity of the resource allocation process and the equitable treatment of schools, whilst ensuring that publicly funded resources are properly allocated. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: The provision of school places to meet the needs of children and young people at primary and post primary level, including children and young people with special educational needs is an absolute priority for the Department. As the Deputy may be aware, in order to plan for school place needs, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a Geographical...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: The provision of school places to meet the needs of children and young people at primary and post primary level, including children and young people with special educational needs is an absolute priority for the Department. In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: The school under reference in Fermoy was established in 2018 under the patronage divestment process. Fermoy was one of a number of areas surveyed in 2012/13 under the patronage divesting process, where there was sufficient parental demand supporting changes in school patronage. The areas surveyed were areas where demographics were not growing and therefore it was unlikely that a new...