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Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 18: In page 11, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “Provisions consequent upon transfer of functions 16. (1) Anything commenced and not completed before the dissolution day by or under the authority of the Chief Deciding Officer may, in so far as it relates to a function of the Chief Deciding Officer transferred to the Minister under section 14,...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 19: In page 11, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “Deposit with Minister of records in possession of Chief Deciding Officer 17. All records in the possession of the Chief Deciding Officer shall, on the dissolution day or as soon as possible after that day, be deposited with the Minister and, in so far as the records comprise personal data and...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 24: In page 12, to delete lines 14 to 18. In committee proceedings, I outlined my intention to bring a Report Stage amendment to section 13(6). The published Bill contains a provision in regard to double recovery and the residential institutions redress scheme, RIRS. The provision specifically relates to the inclusion of one institution, St. Patrick's, Navan Road,...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Under the original Bill, there was a provision in place which meant that if someone had been in St. Patrick's, Navan Road, Pelletstown, and had received a payment under the RIRS, he or she was disbarred from seeking a claim under this scheme. We are now removing that.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 25: In page 13, line 28, to delete “subsection (8) ofsection 13” and substitute “section 18(7)”.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: What is being proposed here is not similar to Caranua. The legal structures are different. It is really important that we put this on the record at the outset. The independence of the decision-making on each of these applications as they come in, which is the central role for the chief deciding officer, is protected in legislation. The decisions of the chief deciding officer can be...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 5: In page 6, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following: “ “enactment” has the same meaning as it has in the Interpretation Act 2005;”.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 7: In page 7, line 26, to delete “the institution.”. Amendments Nos. 7, 8, 10, 42 and 45 are all technical amendments to take account of presentation issues or errors which were identified following the publication of the Bill or to take account of cross-referencing amendments necessary as a consequence of other amendments to the Bill. Amendments...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 8: In page 7, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “the institution.”.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am not in a position to accept the amendment. We had some discussion of this on Committee Stage. The Bill provides for the establishment of the office of the chief deciding officer of the mother and baby institution payment scheme within my Department. That office will be overseen by a chief deciding officer who will perform the functions set out under section 9 of the Bill. In...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Regarding Deputy Funchion's point, it was always understood even when I announced the pre-legislative process that the scheme would run for a limited period and would have a five-year duration. That is provided for within the legislation. Regarding Deputy Sherlock's question on engagements by elected representatives, specific representations from Deputies or Senators will be dealt with...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: In response to Deputy Funchion’s question, the establishment and duration of the scheme is set out under sections 5 and 6. On the duration of the scheme, it states that, subject to subsection (2), the scheme shall cease to operate on the following date, in the Act referred to as the "cessation date", which will either be the date that is the fifth anniversary of the establishment day,...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 3: In page 6, to delete lines 2 to 7 and substitute the following: “ “applicant” means— (a) subject toparagraph (b), a person who makes an application in accordance with section 19, or (b) in the case of an application to whichsection 36or 37(2) applies, or proceeded with undersection 38, the person on whose behalf or for the...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 4: In page 6, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following: “ “dissolution day” means the day appointed under section 13;”. On Committee Stage I outlined my intention to bring forward amendments to provide for the office to be formally dissolved and for any residual functions of the chief deciding officer to be...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputies for their contributions. As I said previously, I fully understand there are survivors, including those joining us today, who are not happy with the determinations made regarding the ambit of this scheme. The Government has made the point that during the engagement we had, when we spoke to survivors, which was referenced by Deputies, and when they gave their accounts of...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I will respond to the amendments first and then speak to some of the wider points. The Bill as it currently stands provides for a review of the operation of the scheme under section 42. The intention is that two reviews will be conducted on the scheme. The first is an interim one that will commence two years after the second anniversary of the establishment day, and the other will be...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I will look through the amendments as they come up.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Anti-Racism Measures (1 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Senator for raising this really important issue. I did want the opportunity to speak to it myself. In my follow-up at the end, I will come back to some of the recent incidents. In the last 12 months, however, we have seen the largest humanitarian effort made in the history of the State. Since the start of last year, more than 85,000 people have arrived in Ireland fleeing war...