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Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Regarding what this section seeks to achieve and responding to the questions raised by Deputy Funchion and Deputy Boyd Barrett about why you would send back for more information, this section would primarily apply in a situation where an applicant has made an application, the deciding officer has said their name is not in the database at the moment and asks them to provide information about...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is in no way proposed that the making of an affidavit will become the general approach. The legislation has been designed in such a way as to minimise the need for survivors or applicants to have to relive the trauma, to the extent that is possible, and the approach that has been adopted has been to provide for an application to be made, following which the officials will look through the...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 35: In page 22, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following: “(ii) subject to section 30— (I) an offer to the applicant of a payment to him or her of the amount concerned, and (II) a statement of the effect of sections 31, 32 and 33,”.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 36: In page 22, to delete lines 37 to 39.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 37: In page 23, line 1, to delete “where” and substitute “subject to section 30, where”.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 38: In page 23, line 6, to delete “where” and substitute “subject to section 30, where”.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 39: In page 23, line 38, to delete “section 34” and substitute “section 40(1)”. I will speak to the group. The notion of deemed withdrawal of an application, review or appeal is proposed for inclusion to provide clarity around what should happen where an applicant ceases to engage on an application for a sustained period of time. This is...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: In answer to the question Deputy Sherlock asked about the amendments, access to the institutional payments scheme is based on evidence of a person's residence in one of the named institutions. That is primarily proved by the database that was created by the commission of investigation. This House voted to keep that database in 2020, to maintain it and to transfer it to Tusla. The database...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 34: In page 22, line 36, to delete “section 13,” and substitute “section 18*, and”. Amendments Nos. 34 to 38, inclusive, relate to the effect of an appeal lodged by the chief deciding officer in the High Court to section 24 of the Bill which relates to appeals. Amendment No. 34 also deals with a cross-referencing amendment arising from...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I have already addressed this group of amendments.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy. I reassure Deputies by reiterating it is the full intention that applications to this payment scheme will be addressed as quickly as possible. While I understand that concern was expressed regarding the absence of specified timelines in the legislation and that this could be interpreted as opening the door to long delays in processing applications, this is absolutely not...

Seanad: Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Statements (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I also welcome the visitors from Coláiste Mhuire. I was glad they were here for a while because I would have been entirely on my own otherwise. We are here this afternoon on the eve of the first anniversary of Russia's brutal war on Ukraine. More than 70,000 people have fled here and more than 7,000 civilians have been killed. This represents the biggest displacement of people on the...

Seanad: Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Statements (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am sorry to interrupt the Senator but I am being called for a vote in the Dáil that I did not anticipate. Can we have a suspension?

Seanad: Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Statements (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am sorry. I know that is rude of me but I have been given my orders.

Seanad: Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Statements (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank all Senators for their contributions. It was a useful opportunity to discuss some of these issues, and to raise and address some of the misconceptions or disagreements that permeate through the Government and State response to the unprecedented crisis we face. I will take it from the start with the numbers and our State's ability to meet the needs of a significant number of...

Seanad: Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Statements (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I think that strengthens the case, though.

Seanad: Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Statements (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: For some people who cannot be provided with that, they will use that and it will not be a correct one. That is the reality. It is fair to put what people do to protect themselves in this context.

Seanad: Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Statements (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is something that is hard for us to understand here in this country. On the issue of racism and hatred, Senator Flynn spoke very vividly about the very real hatred her community and indeed she has experienced in her lifetime. There is within the dialogue and discourse over recent weeks a strand of genuine hatred against people because of their race, because of their ethnicity, because of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Legislative Measures (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I welcome the opportunity to address the House today on this issue. The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity)(Amendment) Act 2022 was signed into law on 17 December 2022. It paves the way for the commencement of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. This legislation will bring about major reform in Irish society. It will have a significant impact on those who lose or have lost...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Legislative Measures (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: We have had a discussion before about the Deputy's assertion that the Act was rushed. We took longer because of issues Deputy Pringle and other Deputies raised.