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Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Jul 2025)

Victor Boyhan: Is Senator Tully indicating?

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Jul 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Senator Tully for reading that letter.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Jul 2025)

Victor Boyhan: On behalf of the House, I wish the Minister well with the challenge she faces as she embarks on her role as Minister for Education and Youth. She has our good wishes and support.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I call for a debate on the diaspora. This morning, a number of Senators, including the Cathaoirleach, attended Iveagh House at the invitation of the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond. It was a very important exchange and dialogue with the Secretary General and a number of officials from his Department in relation to the Irish diaspora in its very broadest sense. The current strategy runs...

Seanad: Dental Services: Motion (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy O’Donnell, to the Chamber. I call Senator Byrne to speak. She has 16 minutes in total.

Seanad: Dental Services: Motion (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Dental Services: Motion (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: Will the Senator formally second the motion?

Seanad: Dental Services: Motion (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: Before I call Senator Kyne, I welcome the students from Gorey Educate Together Secondary School who are guests of Senator Imelda Goldsboro. I also warmly welcome Deputy Michael Cahill from Kerry and his guests, who are in the Distinguished Visitors Gallery.

Seanad: Dental Services: Motion (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Senator Kyne scheme for setting out his stall. Before we go on, I welcome Deputy Richard O'Donoghue and his guests, Mary Angela Downes and friends, who travelled here from Limerick. I hope they have a most enjoyable day in the Oireachtas.

Seanad: Dental Services: Motion (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: Our next two Senators are sharing time. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Dental Services: Motion (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I only have two more Senators on the list. If any other Senators wish to speak, they might pop up here and let me know. Senators O'Donovan and Boyle wish to contribute. We will come back about the timing in a few moments but I have taken their names.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 1: In page 9, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: "(iii) the payments for educational services and supports shall be subject to a review on an annual basis.". I, too, welcome every visitor to the Gallery here today. It is great to see them all here. Also, I am conscious there are a lot of people tuning in to this important debate. I also welcome...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I would like to hear from the Minister.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: The Minister has spoken, and it is open to me to come back in.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: That was an important intervention. The clarification provided is that it applies to the review. I thank Senators Ruane and Stephenson for raising that because clarity is everything. I did not think about that immediately; it took a few days. I looked at the alternative, which was that last week we had proposed a review and that was not really under consideration. We have made...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I withdraw the amendment.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 3: 3. In page 9, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “Report on role of the Sage Advocacy 7. Within nine months of the commencement of this Act, the Minister shall, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas on how the Sage Advocacy can be supported, and resourced to assist individual survivors to access supports and provisions listed in...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: Amendment No. 3 seeks to create a new section after section 6, which is entitled "Educational service support for former residents" in Part 2, which is entitled "Supports". This is a repeat of what we just had. I engaged with the Minister on this issue. I will also speak about amendment No. 4 before I read into the record some correspondence from the Minister. Amendment No. 4 reads: "In...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: There are two issues and two amendments. I will talk about the first one. The Minister sent the letter. That is on the record of the House. I will circulate it to all the Members later. She makes a valid point about Sage. Could she engage actively with Sage to promote the service? We should at least have a report from the Minister's office once a year on Sage, provided to the...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 4: In page 9, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “Supports for the excluded 7. (1) Advocacy groups approved by the Minister shall be able to make recommendations to the Minister so that health services and education supports can be allocated to former residents who’ve been excluded from this Bill and previous redress schemes. The...