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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 11: In page 14, line 6, to delete “, from time to time,”. These amendments relate to the Government's approach to establish a separate director and office to intervene in each site rather than establishing a standing body which has the capacity to examine any known or potential site. This is a key barrier to justice for the deceased. A separate office...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: It is like saying we should establish a different coroner's agency for every crime it will investigate or that we should set up a new branch of the Garda every time a crime is committed. Why would we not set up a stand-alone body to deal with every case instead of setting up a new agency each time? It does not make any sense. We would not do it for any other body that is investigating...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I think the Minister made a really good point about the Government continually setting up tribunals, which is an enormous waste of taxpayers' money. It costs an extortionate amount of money and rarely results in any kind of justice or accountability. Ultimately if we have something like a stand-alone body for corruption, that would probably be more effective. The Minister made a really...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: It does not make a difference.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 12: In page 14, lines 7 and 8, to delete “with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform”. The specific inclusion in multiple sections that an intervention is only possible with consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is a clear and disgraceful indication of the priorities with this legislation. It shows that...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 13: In page 14, to delete lines 17 and 18. This amendment seeks to address the restriction of limiting an intervention to a specific area rather than empowering the director to intervene in any location as the evidence presents itself. Currently when establishing the office, the director will be given a particular location to work within, with the provision that the...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 14: In page 14, line 28, to delete “ordinarily”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 15: In page 14, line 28, to delete “and” and substitute “or”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 16: In page 14, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “(ii) of persons whose death may have occurred in a violent or unnatural manner, or suddenly and from unknown causes, or”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 17: In page 14, line 29, to delete “manifestly”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 18: In page 14, to delete lines 31 to 33. This amendment concerns the restriction based on proximity to a residence or the property around a residence. Is the Minister saying that intervention in one site can occur in one area because it is 21 m from a residence, but justice would be denied to people on another site because it is 19 m from a residence? Is that what...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: That would be very much appreciated. I do not know how to explain it with respectful language, but it is profoundly insulting to people that somebody's property rights would be considered above the right to find out the fate of a disappeared relative or lost child. That it is being considered in this legislation just shows us how differently these kinds of deaths are treated by society and...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: It is being pressed.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 19: In page 14, to delete lines 34 to 36. The amendment covers similar issues to those addressed by amendment No. 18. The amendment refers to subsections concerning what is called "general public interest", which in this Bill is a euphemism for a list of further restrictions. It restricts interventions based on several broad and ill-defined grounds including "public...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 20: In page 15, lines 9 to 18, to delete line 9 down to and including "1922," on line 18. This amendment seeks to remove the restrictions in subsection 7(4), which are ambiguous and constraining. First, an intervention will not be permitted if any of the area concerned is a legitimate burial ground or if an excavation would disturb appropriately buried human remains....

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 22: In page 15, to delete lines 24 to 27.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 23: In page 15, line 28, to delete “from time to time”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 24: In page 15, lines 29 and 30, to delete “with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 27: In page 15, to delete lines 39 and 40.