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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2021)

Fiona O'Loughlin: Today is the start of local enterprise week. I pay tribute to Jacqui McNabb and her team in Kildare, who have been doing amazing work, pre-Covid and during Covid, in supporting our local businesses and helping them through this difficult time. Not so Bank of Ireland. We had the devastating news this morning that branches in Kilcullen and Monasterevin are to close in these two vibrant small...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020) See 3 other results from this debate

Michael Collins: The failure to record the deaths and burials of so-called illegitimate and abandoned children who died in various institutions during the last century is appalling. Now the Minister wants to bury any actual records that are there for the next 30 years so as not to acknowledge at all the lives of these babies. The reason archives are important is because they are evidence of events in the...

Bethany Home: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Dec 2013) See 6 other results from this debate

Mary Lou McDonald: Fortunately, that is not the case. The Government says that mother and baby homes are excluded from redress. We have noted the exception of St. Patrick's Home on Navan Road. I query the rationale for this State excluding mother and baby homes. I go further and say there is a great need for us to uncover and put the full glare of public understanding on precisely what happened in mother...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Affairs: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (13 Nov 2014) See 1 other result from this debate

James Reilly: I thank members for their questions. I note that Deputy Troy has returned. I will address the terms of reference, which a number of Deputies have raised. The challenge for me and the Department is to set terms of reference that will establish a successful commission of inquiry. We are guided in the first instance by the Oireachtas motion that was agreed earlier this year. We know that at...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Nov 2015) See 2 other results from this answer

James Reilly: The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters was established by Government Order on 17 February 2015 (S.I. No 57 of 2015). It is essential to recognise that in accordance with Section 9 of the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004, a Commission of Investigation is entirely independent in the performance of its functions. I am therefore not in a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (27 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme will be the largest scheme of its type in the history of the State with an anticipated 34,000 people eligible for its benefits. Given its scale and significance the Scheme has been placed on a statutory footing and enabling legislation - the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023 - was signed into law last July. Section 37 of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Programme (8 Feb 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 473 and 479 together. I would like to thank the Deputy for drawing our attention to this typographical error in the Schedule of the published Bill. As she will be aware, the Schedule published as part of the General Scheme reads: “Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, CorkManor House Castlepollard” Due to the mistaken addition of line breaks, the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: The recent debates about the mother and baby homes situation brought into stark reality how important it is to have clarity on data protection, what rules will apply and who will be applying them to ensure we have a data protection system that is fit for purpose and has the needs of the survivors at its heart. To what extent has the Minister sourced and consulted international and national...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Lynn Boylan: The survivors of mother and baby homes have been repeatedly treated with contempt by this State and the Minister is asking us to trust that he will fix this at some future date so that there will be access to the documents. Why would survivors should trust the State? They have been let down at every single point. In December 2018, the Collaborative Forum on Mother and Baby Homes requested...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Apr 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

Ivana Bacik: Thank you. My proposal is straightforward. Since, as we all know, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport is driving the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill, I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that he come into the House between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. to resume statements on transport to enable us all to make a contribution and him to respond to the Members who spoke on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Monuments (6 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: In September 2021, Minister O'Brien established a Working Group to progress the actions involving local authorities set out in the Government’s Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. Chaired by my Department, the Working Group comprises representatives of local authorities and the Departments of Children, Equality,...

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (21 Jan 2015) See 4 other results from this debate

James Reilly: ...That Dáil Éireann: — having regard to the motion passed by Dáil Éireann on 11th June 2014 which recognised the need to establish the facts regarding the deaths of children at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway between 1925 and 1961, including arrangements for the burial of these children, and which further acknowledged the considerable...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: The institutions covered by this Payment Scheme are those 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 institution at Temple Hill, Blackrock, commonly known as St. Patrick’s Hospital, was not investigated by the Commission of Investigation...

Order of Business. (26 Oct 2005)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...on the register of persons considered unsafe to work with children. I hope the Taoiseach will provide a different answer next week. We have all received correspondence concerning the Morning Star mother and baby home and a number of other institutions that still have not been included under the schedule of secondary legislation. The Minister has indicated that the list we have is the final...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (21 Apr 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I propose to take Questions Nos. 42 and 43 together. As the Deputy is aware, the instigation and management of any criminal investigation is a matter for the Garda authorities, as are any operational steps which might be taken in relation to the gathering and preservation of evidence. I hope the Deputy will appreciate that I have no role in this regard. The Deputy will also recall...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (30 May 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...major investment in the State. Nothing specifically came up that was untoward about it. However, the numbers availing of it are much larger than we expected. Almost all came from the one country and that raised concerns. That is why we suspended it. Let us not forget that it brought millions of euro into sports clubs, community centres and economic programmes all around the country....

Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, back from committee, to be taken without debate; No. 7a, motion re parliamentary questions rota change for the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection; No. 27, statements on the third interim report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes; and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (2 Dec 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: Since the publication of Commission's report, I have engaged extensively with survivors.  This engagement has informed the wide-ranging Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions.  The Plan is fully inclusive and responds to the diverse needs and priority concerns of all survivors. The actions are designed to support survivors...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (28 Mar 2017) See 2 other results from this answer

Katherine Zappone: I propose to take Questions Nos. 50 and 59 together. I recognise the heightened demand for a thorough and holistic understanding of events and experiences following confirmation of the discovery of human remains on the former site of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Before we commence such a process, it is important that we do not lose sight of the breadth and considerable scope of the...

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...