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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (27 Sep 2016)

Clare Daly: 960. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will consider the aims of the United Survivors group in regard to the commission of inquiry into the mother and baby homes for an end to the use of the word "home" in reference to mothers and babies' institutions, and to the terms of reference of the commission of inquiry to include illegal adoptions and stolen babies. [27003/16]

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2017)

Frances Black: I would also like to highlight the horrendous nature of what happened in the Tuam mother and baby home. An inquiry is being held into these shocking events. All of the people who have been impacted on by their dealings with mother and baby homes and other institutions such as the Magdalen laundries need to be listened to. The Coalition of Mother and Baby Home Survivors state approximately...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (11 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 593 and 594 together. The Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions contains 22 commitments to survivors, intended to address the expressed priorities of those who spent time in Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions, as well as respond to the findings and recommendations of the Commission of...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2014) See 4 other results from this debate

Gerry Adams: ...xe1;in a bhunú. Is cúis áiféala é gur tharla na rudaí seo sa chéad áit, ach is maith an rud é go bhfuil an cinneadh seo tógtha. I, too, welcome that the Government is to establish a commission of inquiry into mother and baby homes across this State. In the past week or so there have been horrific revelations in this regard, including...

Seanad: Sitting Arrangements: Motion (22 Oct 2020)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 2: That the Schedule be amended as follows: “(i) That Report and Final Stages of the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020, be taken immediately after the Motion regarding Parliamentary Precincts and Privilege; (ii) That the Motion for Earlier Signature of the Commission of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

James Reilly: In developing the Terms of Reference for the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters, due regard has been given to the clear emphasis on “Mother and Baby Homes” in the motion approved by Dáil Eireann on the 11th June 2014. The investigation will thoroughly examine a broad range of matters in relation to the experience of mothers...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: Whilst I cannot comment on individual cases I will try to be helpful in more general terms. 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...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to return to the issue of the mother and baby homes. I understand that the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, brought a memo to Cabinet today. As has been articulated, the wrongs of these mother and baby homes are accepted by everyone in this House. I believe we all recognise that many of the victims and survivors are elderly and in ill health. In 2016, the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions contains 22 commitments to survivors, intended to address the expressed priorities of those who spent time in Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions, as well as respond to the findings and recommendations of the Commission of Investigation. Of these 22 commitments, 9 are completed and a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (7 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions contains 22 commitments to survivors, intended to address the expressed priorities of those who spent time in Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions, as well as respond to the findings and recommendations of the Commission of Investigation. Of these 22 commitments, 9 are completed and a...

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Catherine Martin for tabling this very important motion. It is a very important aspect of child rearing from the point of view of women, their families and their extended families in dealing with premature births. The motion proposes the a change in the current status of maternity leave for mothers of premature babies; maternity leave will begin when the baby is delivered,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Sep 2018)

Katherine Zappone: The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters is an independent statutory investigation. I am not therefore in a position to provide detailed progress updates on this work. Any available updates would be posted by the Commission directly to its website. The Commission's terms of reference, attached as a schedule to Statutory Instrument No. 57 of 2015,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (21 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme is designed to provide financial payments and a form of enhanced medical card to people who spent time in a Mother and Baby or County Home Institution. The Government recognises that there are people who suffered stigma, trauma and abuse in other institutions, and outside of institutions, who will not qualify for this Scheme. The decision...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Jun 2014) See 4 other results from this answer

Dominic Hannigan: 609. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to increase the number of files that can be made available to mothers whose children were in mother and baby homes; his plans to increase the number of files about the mothers, fathers and families of adults who were in mother and baby homes; if any discussions have taken place with the Health Service Executive any religious...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: In that case I will come back to the co-located sites. We have the mother and baby home aspect. We are saying that the legislation only recognises the mother and baby home aspect. It is based on a person's residency records and not in relation to the hospital that is on that site. Again I go back to the fact that what a person experienced on the hospital site does not have anything to do...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Feb 2021)

Micheál Martin: The Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was considered by Government and published on 12 January. On 13 January, I issued a formal apology in the Dáil on behalf of the State for the hurt experienced by many former residents of Mother and Baby Institutions and County Homes. I apologised for the profound generational wrong visited upon Irish mothers...

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 (9 Jun 2015) See 1 other result from this answer

Clare Daly: 631. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the Health Service Executive report written in 2012, into Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, was not used as part of the scoping exercise of the Commission of Investigation into mother and baby homes. [22452/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (27 Jan 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: I believe the mother and baby homes are largely treated as forensic sites. Mr. MacDonagh might respond to the Senator's question. I know there are very sensitive issues relating to those religious sites. The treatment of the mother and baby homes is quite contentious and involves a wider debate.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (23 May 2023)

Kathleen Funchion: 710. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total estimated cost of including all 24,000 mother and baby homes survivors currently excluded from the mother and baby homes payment scheme. [24954/23]