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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (25 Nov 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme will provide financial payments and an enhanced medical card to defined groups in acknowledgement of suffering experienced while resident in Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions in the Republic of Ireland. The institutions covered by the Scheme are the 14 Mother and Baby Homes investigated by the Commission of Investigation and all...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: As part of the work undertaken by the Interdepartmental Group on the development of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme, it was estimated that approximately 19,500 mothers spent time in a Mother and Baby or County Home Institution, with just under 15,000 of these mothers spending less than six months there. In the case of people who spent time as institutions as children, it was...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (28 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 824. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons that have given evidence to the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes confidential committee; the number of persons that have given evidence to the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes investigation committee; the number of persons that have been refused an opportunity to give...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (28 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme will provide financial payments and an enhanced medical card to survivors and former residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions in recognition of time spent in the institution, harsh conditions, emotional abuse and all other forms of mistreatment, stigma and trauma experienced while resident in a Mother and Baby or County Home...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (20 Sep 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme is designed to provide payments and other benefits to people who spent time in one or more of the Mother and Baby or County Home Institutions, that were identified by the Commission of Investigation as having a main function of providing sheltered and supervised ante and post-natal facilities to single mothers and their children. The...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Mar 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: Last December, a stillborn baby girl was found wrapped in a cloth on a beach in Balbriggan. She was found by a passer-by and had been there for less than 24 hours. The local community named the child baby Belle. Despite numerous appeals for baby Belle's mother to come forward to receive the care and attention she needed, she did not come forward. We in north County Dublin took baby Belle...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (28 Mar 2017)

Katherine Zappone: As the Deputy may be aware, the Castlepollard Mother and Baby Home is one of the 14 Mother and Baby Homes included within the scope of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes. However, it is essential to recognise that the Commission is independent in the performance of its functions. Therefore, the precise approach to its investigation is a matter for the Commission to...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Nursing Homes (10 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: .... The Fair Deal scheme is managed by the Health Service Executive. My Department does not offer specific support towards the long-terms costs of a nursing home for people who spent time in mother and baby homes. However, intensive work is underway in relation to the establishment of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme, which will provide financial payments and health...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (14 Dec 2023)

Seán Canney: With regard to the redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes, the legislation that was passed excluded those who were not in a mother and baby home for six months or more. Has the Minister considered reviewing that legislation? A significant number of people are very upset at their exclusion. It is not so much about compensation; it is more about recognition that they spent...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (4 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: 98. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the dates and topics discussed at meetings of the Mother and Baby Home Collaborative Forum in 2020; when the details of the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 was outlined and discussed with the forum; when the issues raised in the sixth interim report of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (6 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Maternity and Infant Care Scheme provides an agreed programme of care free of charge to an expectant mother arising out of her pregnancy and to her new-born baby for six weeks after birth. Before the birth of the child the Scheme offers a system of combined care by a general practitioner who is a participant and is chosen by the expectant mother and the maternity unit/ hospital of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions contains 22 commitments to survivors, intended to address the expressed priorities of those who spent time in Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions, as well as respond to the findings and recommendations of the Commission of Investigation. Of these 22 commitments, 9 are completed and a...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: The Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions contains 22 commitments to survivors, intended to address the expressed priorities of those who spent time in Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions, as well as respond to the findings and recommendations of the Commission of Investigation. Of these 22 commitments, 9 are completed and a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Professor Fionnuala McAuliffe: I reiterate that we are talking about a small number of rare cases in which there is a substantial risk to the life of the mother. If we feel this risk can only be averted by the delivery of the baby - whether that is before viability or afterwards - that will be part of the care package. These decisions are made in conjunction with the mother, her family and...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (19 Jun 2018)

Katherine Zappone: ...company (details supplied) by my Department is set out in the following table. Year Amount € Project Name 2016 €37,724.22 Print Media advertising campaign re Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters 2016 €24,043.75 Advertisement on the National Public Consultation on the Single Affordable Childcare Scheme 2017...

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 May 2019)

Michael Moynihan: 2 o’clock I move amendment No. 2: To delete all words after "further notes that" and substitute the following: "— the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) was established by the previous Government in 2015, in order to fully investigate and report upon practices within Mother and Baby Homes; — the Commission of...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...interrupted, I will do my best to formulate thoughts which have been put to me by people in the medical profession. In the case of suicide, according to this legislation, where there is a real and substantive risk to the life of the mother, it is deemed that to save the life of the mother the baby's life must be taken. This includes the threat of suicide. What is the legal status of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Rights of Children: Discussion (12 May 2022)

Ms Caoimhe Nic Dhomhnaill: I have a view on the maternity leave aspect. Its lack really disadvantages children who have been born via surrogacy and have come into the country. To quote D.W. Winnicott, there is no such thing as a baby; there is only a mother and baby. A baby cannot survive. During that early stage, when a child is four months old, six months old, or whatever, the primary...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (21 Jan 2021) See 1 other result from this answer

Richard Boyd Barrett: 265. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes suggests, and if he will consider, the inclusion of all women and survivors of all mother and baby homes in the country when awarding redress; if it will be limited to specified mother and baby homes or certain cohorts of women and...