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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 612. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the progress made in meeting each of the objectives of Breastfeeding in a Healthy Ireland Health Service Breastfeeding Action Plan 2016 to 2021 as of 25 January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48087/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 613. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that he has taken since taking office to ensure progress in reaching the objectives of the Breastfeeding in a Healthy Ireland Health Service Breastfeeding Action Plan 2016 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48088/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 614. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the availability of dedicated private spaces for breastfeeding and expressing breast milk in each acute and community hospital in each CHO. [48089/22]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: We are all here today because of the continued refusal of the Minister, this Government and the State to respect basic principles of justice and laws, as the will and preference of survivors in relation to the mother and baby institutions. At all stages, survivors have been met with paternalism, disregard, disrespect and attempts to undermine their position. In June 2021 the Minister...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: I apologise if the Minister did not say he brought a proposal to Cabinet. I heard him talking about the issue on the radio so he certainly brought the proposal to the national airwaves. I spoke on the radio after the Minister and asked what he will do if we have two reports, one of which states there is no evidence of illegal adoption or incarceration, all of the things we know happened,...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: In his opening speech, the Minister said the Government cannot by a non-statutory process retrospectively alter or interrogate an independent commission's findings. That means it can be done in a statutory way. Will the Department consider that?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: There are consequences-----

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: I am not clear. The Minister just acknowledged that there is a mechanism to add to the report. Why is he not pursuing that?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: I do not think so.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: That is right. So there is a mechanism for survivors to get an amendment to it. Is there a mechanism for the Minister to do that?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: Why can individuals do it but not the Minister?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: I am not asking about the reason for the amendment. I am asking about the amendment itself. An amendment can be made. There is a mechanism there for this to be done. That is established because it has happened and it is available in the Oireachtas Library as an amendment.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: But it could be for other reasons. There is a mechanism to add this to it. Why is the Minister not pursuing that approach, not in the same way obviously because it may not be one of the survivors?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: Is it possible there could be another reason other than being identifiable, for example that the findings of the report would be factually incorrect?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: The only way to get it is if a person is identifiable in the report.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: When the Minister speaks about the potential consequences of repudiating the report, and how future Governments could repudiate a report based on findings about that Government, for example as the Minister referred to earlier, I can acknowledge that there are consequences there and that it is something that needs to be looked at. I fully understand what the Minister means about that. It is,...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: The amended parts of the Act, which is the attachment, were not agreed by the Government. That was forced on the commission's report by the High Court.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: But did the Government not have to agree to the amendment?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: The Government agreed to adding that on, but it cannot agree to anything else in that regard?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: Is the Minister 100% sure that he cannot do it without that?