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Seanad: Early Childhood Education: Statements (Resumed). (5 Oct 2005) See 2 other results from this debate

Mary O'Rourke: I am wary whenever history and social attitudes ask women to work. During the wars, women were needed to work in the munitions factories and elsewhere but as soon as the wars ended they were told to go back home. I would be wary of seeing women as economic ciphers with that purpose alone even though people are needed in the workforce. Senators Ross and O'Toole have two worthy motions on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Experience of Persons of Mixed Race in State Institutions: Mixed Race Irish (22 Oct 2014)

Anne Ferris: I welcome Ms Carole Brennan, Ms Evon Brennan and Ms Rosemary Adaser. I met them earlier in the summer when we had a good chat about the difficulties experienced by members of Mixed Race Irish. As an adopted person, I am acutely aware of the problems, traumas and identity issues experienced by people who were adopted. I have spoken to many people in my situation, as well as those who were...

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: ...available in six. Alongside this, national guidelines are also due to be published. It is important that these scans are made available so that no parent is left in the situation in which a young mother found herself in Kerry recently. She gave birth to a baby who had a serious heart condition. Her baby was transferred to hospital in Dublin while she had to remain in Kerry. Having just...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Papal Visit (27 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: The Pope's visit to Ireland will be very much welcomed by Irish people right across the island from all different walks of life, not just Catholics. Clearly, the Catholic Church has a legacy in Ireland characterised by enormous difficulty and enormous pain, which was inflicted on people in various institutions of the Catholic Church who were abused, used or badly used. The Pope will...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (14 Jun 2018) See 2 other results from this answer

Katherine Zappone: The question of redress for former residents of Mother and Baby Homes is one which I have addressed on a number of occasions and I am happy to restate the Government's position for the Deputy. Mother and Baby Homes have not been central to any previous statutory inquiry so the current Commission of Investigation must be given the opportunity to conclude its investigation and to establish the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (11 Nov 2020) See 1 other result from this answer

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 169 and 171 together. In the course of developing the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020, it was recognised that the compressed timeframe available to bring the legislation through the Houses, to ensure that the records could be protected ahead of the dissolution of the...

Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018) See 5 other results from this debate

Niamh Smyth: We in Fianna Fáil welcomed the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes when it was established. We recognised the importance of the commission in delivering justice and accountability for all those affected by mother and baby homes. The commission's third interim report makes a request to extend the deadline for its reports on its findings on the institutions being...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Investigations (21 Feb 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The leaking of the report into the mother and baby homes was very wrong. It caused considerable distress among the survivors of the homes. This investigation is very strange, and that is God's honest truth. In response to the parliamentary question submitted by Aontú, the Taoiseach stated the internal investigation into the leaking of the report on mother and baby homes was completed...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Magdalen Laundries (8 Jul 2015) See 1 other result from this answer

James Reilly: As I have outlined for the Deputy previously, the draft report at issue was prepared by the Health Service Executive (HSE) based on records from the former Bessborough mother and baby home as part of its response to the Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries.This process, which was independently chaired by Martin McAleese, was conducted under the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation Expenditure (25 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: I found the Taoiseach's reply on health issues and the health budget overrun to be helpless and hopeless because, notwithstanding his experience of that Department, he is throwing in the towel on being able to influence it. When the SCU was closed down, there was an indication, as the Taoiseach said in his reply, that there would be significant savings. In respect of the commission of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Jan 2015) See 1 other result from this answer

James Reilly: Since the decision to establish this investigation was announced, there have been calls for the inclusion of a wide range of institutions in the list of Mother and Baby Homes. In responding to these calls it is important to be clear on what we want this investigation to examine and that we are clear and realistic as to our approach and expectations here. My sole objective is to establish a...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Feb 2015) See 1 other result from this answer

James Reilly: Since the decision to establish this investigation was announced, there have been calls for the inclusion of a wide range of institutions in the list of Mother and Baby Homes. In responding to these calls it is important to be clear on what we want this investigation to examine and that we are clear and realistic as to our approach and expectations here. My sole objective is to establish a...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 Jul 2014) See 2 other results from this answer

Joan Collins: 71. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Magdalen laundries and Bethany homes including Ovoca House, Westbank Orphanage and the Church of Ireland Magdalen home, Leeson Street will be included in the terms of reference of the statutory inquiry into mother and babies homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27897/14]

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

Roderic O'Gorman: These type of decisions are a matter for the Chief Deciding Officer of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme and it would be inappropriate for me to offer an opinion on what is a precise operational matter. That said, I will try to be helpful in general terms. The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme provides financial payments and health supports to eligible people who...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (1 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 350 and 351 together. Last May Government approved my proposal to appoint Ms Sheila Nunan to act on my behalf as Independent Negotiator in leading negotiations with religious organisations, which had a historical involvement with Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. This is with a view to securing a financial contribution towards the cost of the...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (30 Apr 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 582 and 583 together. The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme is open for applications. A dedicated webpage www.gov.ie/paymentscheme, contains information on how people can apply to the Payment Scheme, and what information applicants need. The Scheme provides for financial payments and health supports for eligible persons. The legislation that...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (14 Dec 2016) See 3 other results from this debate

Maureen O'Sullivan: My question relates to a request from a group of survivors from the mother and baby homes because they find it offensive that the word "home" is used to describe something that was an institution. They were hoping there might be some move on removing that word "home" in whatever way that could happen.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (30 Jun 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: ...Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with Magdalen Laundries (the McAleese report) provides an independent, comprehensive, factual account of the Magdalen institutions and informed the Government decision to establish an ex gratia scheme for women who entered and worked in such institutions. To date nearly €20m has been paid out in lump sums to over...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (14 Dec 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme will include financial payments and a form of enhanced medical card. Payments will be provided to eligible applicants based on residency in one of the institutions for a defined period of time. While the residency details in respect of application to the Scheme will have to be looked at individually, it is anticipated that relevant dates to...