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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the officials for coming before the committee. I will not be keeping them long. Ms Conduit raising the issue with the UK situation and head 5 and how persons in the UK who receive a payment under head 5 may lose some of that because of the pension or social welfare rules there. Have there been any previous examples where our Department of Social Protection or the officials'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Yes. It was brought to our attention yesterday that the rules - I think it may be a statutory instrument in the UK - certainly disregard any income a person receives if that person has been the subject of historical institutional child abuse in the UK and received money to that effect. I would have thought there would be some form of sympathetic response from the UK in any event. Does Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: On the role Sage Advocacy is going to play, it appears there is not going to be any specific statutory provision dealing with a professional advocacy group. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Okay. Will it have responsibility for identifying people in the UK as well or is that going to be given to some other body?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: People will obviously have been identified as having been in institutions, but what does Ms Conduit see the role of Sage Advocacy as being? Is it assisting people with the process or is it making people generally aware it is there for them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I know what Ms Conduit means. It is about facilitating people in going through the bureaucracy of the State. Presumably, Sage Advocacy will be able to assist people even if they are the UK.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: All right. As a final point, in head 12, I think, the records of the dissolved body now come under the ownership and responsibility of the Minister. Do they go to the National Archives or what happens to them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Thus, in years to come people will be able to do research on them or access them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Okay, so they probably will not be of that much academic interest.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Chairman.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 127. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what steps he intends to take to expedite the applications for work permits in the processing industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45507/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 128. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether he intends to extend the quota of meat processor operative permits in order to meet current demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45507/23]

Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I will share time with Deputy Lawless. I welcome the O'Farrell family to the Chamber this evening, and I also commend them, in particular Lucia and Jim, on the tireless work they have done in exposing failings in the criminal justice system. The failings they exposed were not simply failings in respect of the tragic death of Shane but they are also more general failings in the system as a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Ms Margil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Mr. Lizney.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome all the guests before the committee and I thank them for the opening statements they prepared. Along with the Chair, I also want to welcome former Tánaiste Joan Burton to the committee. Ms Burton has done excellent work in the area. Mr. Rodgers's concern deals with head No. 5 of the general scheme of the Bill, which is payments to people who are ordinarily resident outside...