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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 548. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if experienced data protection law experts will be engaged to oversee the processes by which survivors of mother and baby homes and other relevant persons can access their personal information from the mother and baby homes commission archive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34761/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (4 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Minister. I am sure he appreciates that there is considerable distrust among survivors and their representatives on this issue. Years of secrecy and denial, compounded by an adversarial system, have rightly left people sceptical about any Government announcement. That is understandable. I have to believe that the Minister was doing what he thought was right. However, it also...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (4 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: Less than two weeks ago, we sat here in the middle of an incredibly difficult week for survivors of mother and baby homes. Based on the advice of survivors and human rights lawyers, I and other Deputies opposed aspects of the Bill and proposed changes to help those affected access their personal information. I welcome the change in approach taken but it is unfortunate that this did not...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: The Government's recent acknowledgment of people's rights to their own information through personal data access requests is very welcome. I, and many others, presume that this right applies not only to the data from the mother and baby homes commission, but to data relating to the Ryan report and the McAleese archives. These were sealed a very long time ago. Will the Taoiseach confirm that...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ministerial Meetings (3 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 965. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of his engagement with the forum for the survivors of Mother and Baby Homes, including the number of meetings, since he took office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33119/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Legislative Programme (3 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 966. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the timeline for the introduction of legislation to ensure the survivors of mother and baby homes have access to the archive of the Commission on Mother and Baby Homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33120/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 972. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if, following findings in the fifth interim report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation regarding the Bessborough Home in Cork city, he will fund a physical survey of the estate to locate the possible burial place of the more than 800 unaccounted for children who died in Bessborough or in hospital after being...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: The Taoiseach was a member of the Bertie Ahern-led Government that brought in a gagging order, further compounding survivors' trauma caused by institutional abuse, and he admitted that that was a mistake. He can choose not to repeat the mistakes of the past today. If we pass the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter Bill...