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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I believe that the scheme must be extended to include people who spend time in any institution and not just those in the institutions listed in the statutory fund Act. The legislation must ensure that all survivors of residential institutions have equal access to all supports. It is irrational and discriminatory to provide supports only to survivors who have received a payment under the...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I wish to speak in response to the comments the Minister made on GDPR, freedom of information and applications to Caranua. She outlined in her opening statement that day-to-day administrative records and records relating to applications made by survivors are included. Would applications made by survivors not include the reasons they need assistance? Would it not be included in the material...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: There will be nothing outlining personal reasons the assistance is required.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: So the fact that people are survivors is what entitles them to apply for the assistance and they do not have to justify the application any further.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Okay.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: With regard to section 4, which has been slightly discussed already, residents feel they should be granted the Health (Amendment) Act, HAA, card rather than the enhanced medical card. That request makes sense. Mr. Justice Quirke did recommend the HAA card for Magdalen survivors but they never received them. The enhanced medical card does not provide survivors with a dedicated liaison...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: How long will Sage Advocacy's involvement with the survivors last? Pardon my ignorance, but is that laid down in the Bill? How will that process work?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Section 5 provides for the payment of €3,000 to former residents living abroad. I do not believe that is adequate to meet their needs. A sum of up to €20,000 would be more adequate to meet their needs. Also, people who have received payments under the mother and baby institutions payment scheme should not be excluded from this scheme. That is vital. Will the Minister...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Educational supports should also be made available to family members of people who are impacted. This issue has a generational impact. It is vitally important that family members be included. The Bill should provide for that as well.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Is the Minister saying that €12.7 million is still available, or that it has been used up and that is the end of it?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Right. That is okay.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: On section 21, I believe people should not be precluded from participating in or availing of other schemes if they are available and people might qualify for them. I do not believe that section should be there with regard to disqualifying people from participating in other schemes. Will the Minister comment on that?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of section 29 appeals under the Education Act 1998 taken in 2023; a breakdown of the total number admissible/inadmissible; the number upheld/rejected; and any balance withdrawn or still under review, in tabular form. [26433/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of persons currently eligible to serve on section 29 appeals panels (of the Education Act 1998); the nature of their appointment; the eligibility for appointment; their term of office; whether such appointments are publicly advertised and the relevant fees/expenses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26434/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Correspondence (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons registered on the electoral register in each local authority area; and the number of persons who were added to the electoral register via the supplementary register for each local authority area for the recent local and European elections, in tabular form. [26435/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 68. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision will be expedited on an appeal for a supplementary allowance payment and a decision on a carer’s allowance review (details supplied). [26333/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Youth Services (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 85. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to detail the funding provided to youth diversion projects in each of the years 2012 to 2024, in tabular form. [26426/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Youth Services (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: 87. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of young people supported by youth diversion projects in each of the years 2012 to 2023, in tabular form. [26428/24]