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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. From my own perspective, the situation with regard to mother and baby homes represented a very dark period in our history and an appalling approach to the treatment of women and mothers and, at the time, the separation of child from mother. I accept the norms of later years but as an individual and as a parent, the separation of child from mother...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Family Support Services (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: I welcome the children and teachers of Our Lady of Lourdes national school in Ballinlough who are in the Visitors Gallery. It is pure coincidence that I happen to be in Chamber at this time. It is appropriate that the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs is also here to welcome them. This important issue involves the Bessborough Centre, previously the Bessborough Mother and Baby...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: The housing crisis continues to deepen and to impact on many people across the country. The annual report from Threshold published today makes for depressing reading and illustrates how existing Government policies and initiatives have failed, particularly in relation to security of tenure, substandard accommodation and ongoing homelessness. Threshold has seen a dramatic rise in the number...

Pathway to Redress for Victims of Convicted Child Sexual Abusers: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: ...the motion we have tabled on behalf of the survivors of child sexual abuse in primary schools. I have raised this issue in recent years with the former Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny; the Taoiseach and the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Richard Bruton. I have met the Minister on several occasions to discuss this specific issue. I acknowledge that previous Governments, of which...

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: I raise a significant and very serious legacy issue affecting the State. It is one which, in many ways, informs how we continue to approach victims of sexual abuse. In the last number of weeks, we have, rightly, had very significant coverage of the mother and baby home scandal, the way in which single women were treated and the absence of any human response to that. At the same time that...

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: Last year, a commission of inquiry was established into the Tuam mother and baby home following the outstanding work of historian Catherine Corless, who has been instrumental in uncovering and revealing a very dark period of and dark side to our history. As the Taoiseach knows, the commission's investigators have uncovered a significant number of infant and toddler remains. We now know that...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (22 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: 564. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes will publish an interim report; the cost to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35755/16]

Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: These measures have a cumulative impact on lone parents who, among all the groups in the social welfare code, have been targeted in a most brutal manner. We have inquiries into mother and baby homes and all of that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach mentioned in his reply that his discussions with church leaders have included a consideration of issues to do with Northern Ireland and education. In the context of what happened at mother and baby homes and state-run institutions, it is interesting that Northern Ireland has been very slow and behind the curve in responding to these issues. I understand an inquiry is taking...

Order of Business (18 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: The statement mentions the establishment of an expert panel to advise on the broader issue by September. The promise was that there would be legislation before the summer to deal once and for all with medical needs and conditionality in the awarding of discretionary medical cards. Will such legislation be provided? What timeline is the Government offering in the enactment of such...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: I welcome the statement by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Charles Flanagan, that the Government will establish a statutory commission of inquiry into the operation of mother and baby homes. Such an inquiry will have to deal clearly with how women were treated and mistreated in such homes, the high infant mortality rates in such homes, the burial practices, the carrying...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: This will be complex and sensitive work in which we will engage constructively. Given the sensitivities involved for families, adoptees and adoptive parents, is the Government open to consultations with Opposition parties in drawing up the terms of reference and considering the structure and nature of the inquiry in the light of the scale and scope of what will, undoubtedly, have to be...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: ..., I came across a person with multiple sclerosis who had a medical card for many years but who received communication again from the authorities to say her medical card is now gone. I met the mother of a 15 year old child recently. At six years of age, the child had a tumour which caused life-long visual impairment. The child had a medical card but a month or two before Christmas,...

Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: I welcome the holding of this debate and the opportunity to address the report of the expert group. It is appropriate that time is allowed for legislators, medical bodies and the wider public to consider the issues raised in the report in advance of the consideration of specific measures. In the modern world there are few more passionately debated and divisive topics as abortion. Ireland is...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: ...The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, boasted that there would be no cuts to primary weekly social welfare payments. However, the deeper one examines this budget, the more devastating and sinister the cuts become. Despite stating that payments to families at risk of poverty will remain unchanged, it is clear that as a result of changes to the main means testing arrangements,...

Passport Applications (18 Oct 2011)

Micheál Martin: I reluctantly raise this issue on the floor of the House because of the inability and failure of parents of a beautiful baby daughter who was born to them last September with the help of a surrogate mother in India to get a passport from the Department of Foreign Affairs. There are other children in this situation as well. It is my strong view that there is nothing to stop the Department of...