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Seanad: Hospital Services (19 May 2009) See 1 other result from this debate

Geraldine Feeney: I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to raise this important issue and I thank the Minister for agreeing to take the Adjournment debate. The matter I want to raise relates to expectant mothers, and the case I will deal with is in the Galway area. An expectant mother cannot avail of private accommodation in a public hospital unless she has made a private contractual arrangement with a...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 709 and 710 together. The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme will provide financial payments to an estimated 34,000 people, some 19,000 of whom will also benefit from an enhanced medical card or health support payment. These benefits are in recognition of experiences while resident in Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. The overall cost of...

Order of Business (7 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I am glad the issue is being discussed on Thursday but I also question if two hours is sufficient. 3 o’clock The issue has serious repercussions. On Thursday, the Taoiseach should come here and make a statement about the criminal action that will be taken against the perpetrators who ran these homes and the repercussions for education, given that over 90% of primary schools are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (17 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Promoting and encouraging health and wellbeing and prevention of disease in children are Government priorities. They are part of the aims expressed in Healthy Ireland, which is the cross government policy for promoting health and wellbeing in Ireland through joined up working across government and other agencies. Child health services in the community are primarily provided by Primary...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Feb 2006)

Séamus Brennan: The carer's benefit scheme is a weekly income support payment operated and paid by this Department. It is specifically intended to support people who must leave the workforce temporarily to care for someone who is in need of full-time care and attention. It is based on PRSI contributions paid by the carer. As provided for in the Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006, the benefit is...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: We are trying to separate out the women who gave birth in maternity facilities and were there solely for the purpose of the use of those maternity facilities. There were other women who gave birth in maternity facilities who were there because they had been admitted into a county home. We are saying that women in the latter category are entitled to be eligible under the scheme. The scheme...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2009)

Nicky McFadden: I would like the Leader to invite the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney, to come to the Seanad. We have been raising the issue of Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin for a very long time. We all know of the very sad case of baby Joy who has a hole in her heart and narrowing arteries. Yesterday in my clinic I was visited by a mother of six children, whose youngest...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I have been taken aback by the statements from Senators Hildegarde Naughton and Aideen Hayden due to their hypocrisy. They are calling for debates on issues of policy that the Government has been implementing for the past four years and which they fully support. I will return to this matter on another day. It is approximately one year since Ms Catherine Corless brought to the attention of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Prevention of the Exploitation or Coercion of Surrogates and Intending Parents: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Ms Sharon O'Shea: Regarding safeguarding myself or Marie on my journey, I never had to do that because she is my sister. It was an easy journey in that way. Every clinic I went to, Marie and I were together. We were close that way. When it came to carrying Marie's baby, it was always Marie's baby. Marie had a clinic, Marie and an appointment, Marie had a scan. It was never Sharon's...

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...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014) See 2 other results from this debate

Robert Troy: ...onto this committee. I do not engage in theatrical-style stunts. The subhead is welcome because it enables the commencement of the commission of investigation into institutions commonly known as mother and baby homes. I have spoken to survivors who spent time in these institutions and know that they do not like these facilities being termed "mother and baby homes" because there was...

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....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (31 May 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was established in 2015 to investigate and report on a wide range of issues associated with Mother and Baby institutions, including burial practices. The Commission’s fifth interim report, which was published in March 2019, covered burial arrangements in the institutions. The final report of the Commission was published in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of a Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)

...'Rourke: The committee will be aware that the coroner has a statutory obligation to hold an inquest if she or he considers that a death may have occurred in a violent or unnatural manner, suddenly and from unknown causes, or in a location or circumstances that require an inquest, for example, in prison. The Coroners Act 1962 also empowers the Attorney General to direct a coroner to hold...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015) See 1 other result from this debate

James Reilly: As the Deputy has just come into the Chamber, I will reiterate what I have said already, even though Deputies Troy and Ó Caoláin may now have heard it twice. To put it in context, as the Deputy is aware, I announced the proposed terms of reference for the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes and certain related matters last week. In developing the terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (29 Apr 2025)

Norma Foley: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme recognises time spent in a Mother and Baby Institution and the circumstances experienced. Its non-adversarial approach ensures that those who spent longer periods of time in these institutions, and endured the harshest conditions, receive the highest level of support. The six month eligibility criterion was initially presented in the Commission...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...;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 that...

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...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: Like the other speakers, I take on board the sentiment of what Senator Higgins has been saying. We have spoken about an arrow to a future direction and I have provided plenty of arrows in my contributions today and earlier in the week. I would like not to be fettered by the sort of time period mentioned because it is very tight. I would also like not to be fettered in respect of mother and...

Order of Business (25 Sep 2014) See 1 other result from this debate

Joan Burton: When we spoke at length about this last week, I said that this is a certain part of the hidden history of Ireland. I have had a long personal involvement in this issue. I know many people who were in these homes and institutions. I told Deputy McDonald last week that Judge Yvonne Murphy has been appointed by the Government to conduct an inquiry. Rather than rushing the terms of the...