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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (4 Jul 2017) See 2 other results from this answer

Katherine Zappone: The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters was established by Government Order on 17 February 2015. In accordance with its comprehensive Terms of Reference, the Commission is tasked with thoroughly examining the experience of mothers and children resident in 14 named Mother and Baby Homes and a representative sample of County Homes during the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (14 Jul 2015) See 2 other results from this answer

Clare Daly: 494. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the exclusion of the Westbank Home in Greystones in County Wicklow from the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, given that this exclusion, which is the cause of division among the survivor community, is deeply upsetting for those who are being excluded. [28964/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (27 Jul 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy will be aware that, as part of its response to the Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes (and Certain Related Matters), the Government committed to establishing a Restorative Recognition Scheme for survivors of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. This Scheme will include a financial payment and a form of enhanced...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

Mary Ann O'Brien: With regard to viability and term limits, the Minister mentioned 24 weeks. That is where I have a problem. There is no term limit referred to in the Bill. I have a friend, to whom I can introduce the Minister, who is just graduating from Trinity College, Dublin. She was born at 23 weeks, but the Minister, who is a doctor, mentioned 24 weeks. We must go back to that. I acknowledge that...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Adoption Records Provision (7 Oct 2014) See 1 other result from this answer

Charles Flanagan: My Department retains over 2,200 files relating to passport applications for children sent abroad for adoption between the late 1940s and the early 1970s. These files are not a comprehensive record of all children sent abroad for adoption. It is not possible to provide an exact number of persons for which records are held as, in cases where more than one child was adopted by the same...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (28 May 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Dominic Hannigan: 502. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the mother and baby home that was formerly on Leeson Street, Dublin 2; the reasons it is not a part of the Justice Quirke redress process; his plans that this home be included; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25893/13]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Apr 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Calleary sounded decidedly clingy in his contribution. The Taoiseach may wish to reassure him after this sitting that all is well with Fine Gael and its partners in Fianna Fáil. The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs is preparing legislation to provide lawfully for the phased forensic excavation of the Tuam mother and baby home. The commission's report into the burial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (30 May 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Dr. Elaine Mooney: In the west of Ireland there is a small number of home economists called home management advisers who work for the HSE. The advisers have a very practical-based employment where they work with low-income families in conjunction with the Money Advice & Budgeting Service, MABS. The advisers go into people's homes and accompany the mothers or parents to shops to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for his contribution. For my own part, my remarks and my statement yesterday in no way sought to diminish the role of the churches, or indeed the State, and any reading of them would confirm that. I spoke about the perverse moral code overseen by the church that in my view was responsible for this in terms of its attitude to sexual morality, for example, which was at the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 May 2023)

Paul Gavan: This evening, we are back on Committee Stage of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill. I wish to make an appeal to colleagues across the Chamber at this point, because something fundamentally wrong is happening. A Bill that is fundamentally flawed is going to be passed on Committee and Report Stages over the next week and then passed into law. As we all know, this is a Bill...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: 538. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress made in the past month in relation to making information available from the evidence collected in the preparation of the mother and baby home report to persons seeking to find out about their children who were in the homes or children born in the homes trying to trace their parents; and if he will make a statement on the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Cards (16 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue, which I am taking on behalf of the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman. He sends his apologies but he had to attend a meeting. I thank the Deputy for raising this important health benefit for discussion. The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill will provide financial payments...

Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 May 2018) See 5 other results from this debate

Anne Rabbitte: We as a party were very supportive when the Minister set up the independent commission of investigation and when she sought the various time extensions for it to report. As she said, one of its findings was the site in Tuam and the number of remains found there. It is a very complex issue. It is important also that the Minister acknowledged that the persons who were part of the mother and...

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Feb 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...narrow. We know there are criticisms of that. When we talk about what happened in the laundries it is important to hear the stories. It is important for the women that their stories are heard and believed. There was a great deal of disappointment because they felt the McAleese report did not give a true account of their experiences in the laundries. There is a debt owed on that...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (29 Sep 2020) See 3 other results from this answer

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 628, 629, 631 and 634 together. The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was established by Government to investigate the significant concerns related to the institutional care of unmarried mothers and their babies during the period 1922 to 1998. The Commission is tasked with providing a full account of what happened to vulnerable women...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (28 Mar 2017) See 2 other results from this debate

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 17. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has considered pursuing an injunction on sites in which mother and baby homes and county homes are located; the action she will take to ensure potential sites of interest remain untampered with; the status of the site at Tuam; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15276/17]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: I put it to the Taoiseach that the Government is speaking out of both sides of its mouth on the mother and baby homes report. Today in the High Court, the State will strongly defend the report of the mother and baby homes commission in legal action brought by survivors against the report. Simultaneously, the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017) See 3 other results from this debate

Gabrielle McFadden: That is good news; I am delighted. Like others, I wish to address the issues arising from the finding of human remains on the site of the former mother and baby home in Tuam. I do not intend to rehearse the horror of what happened to those babies and their mothers but I share in the disgust that everyone in the House, and outside it, feels today. It is important we take this opportunity to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (23 Jan 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 was signed into law last July. A comprehensive body of work has been undertaken to develop the substantial...

Requests to Move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (13 Dec 2005)

Jan O'Sullivan: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Hanafin, to make further additions to the schedule of the Residential Institutions Redress Act, including the Morning Star Mother and Baby Home and Bethany Home in advance of the closing deadline this week.