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Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Mother and Baby Homes (8 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 739. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the way in which a person can recoup from the State the charge levied on families to release a family member from country homes and or mother and baby home institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37660/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (17 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 95. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on efforts to secure further contributions from the religious organisations associated with the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32406/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (17 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 112. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of payments made to date in each ‘number of days resident in relevant institution’ category of Schedule 2 and in each ‘number of days resident in relevant institution’ category of Schedule 3 of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023, by Schedule and by...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (28 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: ...this out. I recommend it to any new TD. The library can set out the whole background to a topic. I have been here for some of that background. I am no expert but, I repeat, I have both personal and professional experience. The Minister says that other schemes have done this and we are staying with the other schemes. All of the other schemes have been found to be badly defective in...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (28 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I have no difficulty with the technical amendments, but I will use my time now and at the end of the debate to say that I am most unhappy with the Bill. I cannot support it in its present form. The Minister said she is responding to the needs of survivors. We have a special advocate, and when that special advocate was appointed there was a press release which stated the Government would...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (29 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 105. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps she will take in view of the publication of the report on negotiations with religious organisations associated with the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20527/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: ...Noonan, the negotiator, which is now in the possession of the Minister, Deputy Foley. When she was appointed almost two years ago, she was to report within six months. The report is completed and with the Minister. I have two issues that concern me. The first is the question of what the next steps will be. We need a clear outline of what is going to happen and the consequences of the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (25 Mar 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 174. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the manner in which Irish embassies and consulates around the world are assisting with the dissemination of information related to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme for survivors throughout Ireland's diaspora; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13498/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (25 Mar 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 175. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to detail all efforts by the Irish Embassy in Washington, DC and Irish Consulates across the United States in disseminating information regarding the mother and baby institutions payment scheme for US-based survivors; the extent to which information has been shared with partner organisations in various US cities (details supplied); and if...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Data (25 Mar 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 176. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade given that his Department remains the data holder for passports issued as part of the Ireland-US adoption scheme from the late 1940s through the 1970s, the efforts made by his Department to reach out to and contact families that adopted Irish children as part of the scheme and inform them of the Government's mother and baby institutions...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Data (25 Mar 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 178. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for updated figures on the number of Irish Passports provided for children travelling out of the State jurisdiction for adoption in a different jurisdiction since 1946; the updated list of countries where these children were travelling to for adoption; the number of children travelling to each country for adoption; the efforts to inform...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Mar 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 656. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline all efforts to advertise the mother and baby institutions payment scheme to date, in what countries beyond the UK, the budget committed to such efforts, the nature of such advertisements, that is, via social media, radio, print media, dissemination of information via Irish cultural-heritage centres,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Mar 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 657. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline specific efforts to advertise the mother and baby institutions payment scheme in the United States, in what States and or cities, the budget committed to such efforts, and the nature of all such advertisements that is, social media, radio, print media, dissemination of information via Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Mar 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 658. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will instruct the Adoption Authority of Ireland to contact all registrants on the national adoption contact preference register, since its inception in 2005, to provide information about the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13506/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 127. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to financially acknowledge those excluded from the mother and baby and other institutions redress scheme, in particular those who do not meet the 180-day requirement, those whose were boarded out, those subjected to vaccine trials, those who suffered additional abuse as a result of race or ethnicity;...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 160. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what review or analysis has been undertaken of the decision to exclude those who spent less than 180 days in a relevant institution from the mother and baby and other institutions redress scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7545/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 132. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of payments made to date in each category of Schedule 2 and each category of Schedule 3 of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023, by category, in tabular form; the number refused and the reasons therefor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7546/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 18. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 41 of 2 October 2024, the number of applications to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme received to date; the number refused and the reasons therefor; the number where a notification of a positive determination has been made; the number accepted; of those...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister for giving some clarification on that. I note that they have had success in Northern Ireland in encouraging people to come forward. Unfortunately that is not our experience in Ireland. It is not the experience of Dr. Mark Coen and what he found on the grounds of the laundry in Dublin. I know from the McAleese report that the Magdalen laundry in Galway distinguished...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I wish to speak briefly to those amendments on the preservation of records. I am on record for welcoming this and saying it has to be done. I do not appreciate the way it is being done. I understand the Minister is under pressure now and it has to be done. In relation to the preservation of records, it is urgent. When the mother and baby home report was published in 2021, I was critical...