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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Contracts (22 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Consultants Purpose Value Indecon To provide expert support in conducting a Periodic Critical Review of the Adoption Authority of Ireland as required under the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies €49,500 Anthony Douglas Consultancy Ltd Contracted for consultancy services related to the establishment of...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Okay, that is fine. Thank you. I thank the Minister for coming to Carlow last week. Carlow is one of many rural towns and counties where I always say that while we always need more housing, we are doing very well. It is always important we recognise the work that has been done. We have seen it in the past four years of the Government. More houses have been built than in the previous...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (21 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 526. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an application an (details supplied) for the mother and baby institution payment scheme. [22768/24]

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the announcement that HIQA will examine the possibility of a model 3 hospital in the mid-west region. It is so essential and we have had many private conversations on this. I thank the Minister, over the past 18 months, for meeting with Deputy Willie O'Dea and myself one evening in his office. he came down to Ennis and met with the Friends of Ennis Hospital Committee and he met...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this the 50th anniversary of the awful bombings in Dublin and Monaghan. I also welcome to the Gallery some members of the families of the 27 Dublin victims and the seven who lost their lives in Monaghan along with representatives of Justice for the Forgotten. The impact of the tragic events in Dublin and Monaghan still reverberates through every one of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Fiona O'Loughlin: We need to have a frank and open discussion on the matter. Senator Clonan spoke about the issue of conflict. It is horrific that every day when we open our phones, screens or newspapers, we see children and women dying. The numbers are horrific. Ireland and Spain have been very much to the fore in terms of doing what they can and trying to bring other European leaders and the UN with us...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Parental Bereavement Leave (Amendment) Bill 2021: Pre-Committee Stage Scrutiny (14 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: It is a sad one. The death of a baby around the time of birth is something you never expect. It is the most traumatic experience a family will go through. It is important that there be support and help for everyone. The work being done by Féileacáin is excellent. We need to work with it on this. At the end of the day, a life is a life. Caroline and Martin talked about...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Medical Cards (14 May 2024)

Norma Foley: In June 2023, Government approved the delivery of a package of ongoing supports to survivors of abuse in residential institutions. This includes the provision of a range of health supports and services, commonly referred to as an “enhanced medical card”, which has previously been provided to survivors of the Magdalen Laundries and which is being provided to former residents of...

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...do nothing. I accept that the commission on care has finally commenced which is welcome but major shortcomings in the current model of care have been evident for some time. The impact of the pandemic should have led to a more community-focused approach to long-term care, but the over-reliance on private nursing homes continues. Increasingly we are seeing this wealth extraction...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (9 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Catherine Connolly: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason persons to whom the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015 applies and persons who received a payment under the mother and baby institutions payment scheme are to be excluded from the Supports of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21039/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: 267. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the State has access to mother and baby records from a private nursing home (details supplied); if the public can access this information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21113/24]

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...insert the following: “(10) Nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting the compellability powers of an Oireachtas Committee, save for where the Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight of Dáil Éireann and the Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight of Seanad Éireann have otherwise provided.”. The amendment seeks to insert...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (8 May 2024)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy is aware, the Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024 provides for the delivery of a range of health supports and services to survivors of abuse in residential institutions. This is the same package of supports as that which has been provided to survivors of the Magdalen Laundries under the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (8 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 431. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason survivors and former residents from a mother and baby county home institution, who also spent time at St. Joseph's Hospital, Coole, County Westmeath prior to being adopted, are excluded from the payment scheme (details supplied). [20340/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (8 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: 473. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will clarify a matter in regard to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20756/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (8 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 553 and 554 together. Eligibility for a medical card is primarily based on a financial assessment which is conducted by the HSE in accordance with the Health Act 1970. The HSE assesses each medical card application on a qualifying financial threshold. Medical card holders are eligible for a range of services including general practitioner services,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (8 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Catherine Connolly: 614. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, in tabular form, the benefits provided by a medical card and an enhanced medical card (as available to some persons pursuant to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20724/24]

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Thomas Gould: I remember standing outside Collins Barracks in Cork with wives, partners, mothers and children who were fighting to improve the terms and conditions of their husbands, partners and loved ones in the Defence Forces because they did not have the ability to do it themselves. I know that is the core of this Bill but it does not go far enough. Members of the Defence Forces must be listened to...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024) See 8 other results from this debate

Hildegarde Naughton: ...I reiterate that the Government is deeply conscious of the trauma which has been experienced by all survivors of abuse, including those who were resident in institutions such as industrial schools and reformatories. Nothing can ever make up for the pain and suffering endured by survivors. I would also like to echo the Minister, Deputy Foley’s appreciation for the work and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (1 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme is designed to provide payments and other benefits to people who spent time in one or more of the Mother and Baby or County Home Institutions, that were identified by the Commission of Investigation as having a main function of providing sheltered and supervised ante and post-natal facilities to single mothers and their children. The...