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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 1098. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is a service hotline to be set up for the mother and baby redress scheme for Oireachtas Members to assist constituents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14110/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1103. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many staff members have been allocated to administer the mother and baby institutions payment scheme. [14150/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: 1111. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason he excluded the Cherry Orchard Hospital and other hospitals from the redress scheme; if he will reconsider these exclusions with respect to the fact some babies born in qualifying mother and baby homes were hospitalised after birth for several months before returning to an institution; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 Apr 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 1156. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a person (details supplied) has been excluded from the mother and baby institutions redress scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15012/24]

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Gary Gannon: When I sat down this morning to prepare my words and think about what I was going to offer to this debate today, I thought about some of the images from last week of people in our international protection system being bussed to Crooksling and then walking back, of the testimony from their advocates and some of the conversations I had with some of those sleeping in tents over the last number...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Childcare Services (21 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Niall Collins: I thank Senator Sherlock for raising this important issue and for offering the opportunity to respond. Home visiting programmes provide support and guidance to expecting parents and parents of babies and young children. Home visiting is a prevention and early intervention strategy used to support parents to promote infant and child health, foster educational development and school...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mary Seery Kearney: I am surprised at what Senator Craughwell said about turbines. My understanding from the housing committee was that turbines are getting smaller rather than bigger. I am surprised by his point and I will certainly raise it as an issue. It seems contrary to what we were told in the housing committee as we went through the planning permission for all of these, especially offshore. Do I...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Offices (20 Mar 2024)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputies for their questions. On IPAS and Mount Street, officials visited the tents on 16 March. Contrary to some reports, Crooksling has toilets, hot showers, personal toiletries, food, a bus service to Dublin and 24-hour security on site. Safetynet is providing health screening, which commenced on 18 March. There is a building where meals are served and men can charge...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will return to the redress scheme that opened today for those who experienced trauma in mother and baby homes and county homes. I acknowledge that redress comes in many forms. It is not all about financial recognition but trauma also comes in many forms and the largest design flaw in this scheme is the 160-day rule. It has been correctly described as a real insult to many victims. Some...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Leo Varadkar: The mother and baby homes institutions payment scheme opened for applications at 9 o'clock this morning. It has taken far too long but I am glad the scheme is now up and running. An extensive information and awareness campaign will take place both at home and abroad, and applicants will be supported throughout the application process with the information and advice they need. Where a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (20 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1121. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps his Department has taken to inform adoptees and mother and baby home survivors of any potential role for DNA technologies in tracing birth information, given the diverse levels of technological literacy across society; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11871/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The First 5 Implementation Plan (2023-2025) sets out additional measures that will allow parents to spend the whole of their baby’s first year in the home through a combination of paid family leave schemes by 2028. This includes increasing Parent’s Leave and Benefit for each parent from seven weeks to nine weeks by August 2024. The intention of this leave is to enable parents to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (20 Mar 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 1148. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 110 of 14 December 2023, if the negotiation process between the expert negotiator and religious orders with regard to contributing to the mother and baby institutions redress scheme has been completed to date; if not, the expected timeline for the conclusion of the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (20 Mar 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: 1153. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is any provision to include survivors of mother and baby homes who contributed towards the Investigation Committee of the final Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation and who passed away before the Taoiseach's apology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12427/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (20 Mar 2024)

Mark Ward: 1176. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when applications for the mother and baby institutions payment scheme are open, if an individual will be able to apply if they are residing abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12651/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 313. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will expand the redress scheme to include all those who spent time in a mother and baby institution or county home; if he will consider making an enhanced medical card available to all survivors, extend the scheme to anyone abused in a 'boarding out'/adoptive placement or abused through forced labour,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (7 Mar 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 324. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether those who were in “mother and baby homes” will be automatically entitled to dental, chiropody, homecare services and counselling as part of the compensation package for survivors of the homes; if they are, how will the services be delivered and how can they be accessed; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (7 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 331. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans in his Department to launch a public awareness campaign of the mother and baby redress scheme opening; if there is to be a time limit on the application period given the urgency of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11454/24]

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (6 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...about misquoting the existing text of the Constitution. Let us set it out at the start of this discussion. Article 41.2.1° states, "In particular, the State recognises that by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved." Article 41.2.2° states, "The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that mothers shall...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (6 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: 179. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in relation to prioritising the elderly in the redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes, what will the age criteria be; and if survivors will be entitled to redress even if they previously received redress for time spent in a mother and baby home as a person under the age of 18, but not for the...