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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 a form of enhanced medical card to people who spent time as mothers or children in Mother and Baby or County Home Institutions. The institutions covered by the Scheme are those identified by the Commission of Investigation as having had a main function of providing sheltered and supervised ante and post-natal...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (29 Jan 2019)

Katherine Zappone: I have no plans to bring forward legislation to amend the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002. As the Deputy will be aware, my colleague the Minister for Education and Skills is responsible for this legislation and related arrangements. The redress scheme established under this act has not been extended to any additional institutions since 2005. I understand that when the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...choose between the three issues referred to by the Chairman. The special report on the redress schemes is very important work, which is also highly topical given the turn of events around the Tuam mother and baby home and the need to re-examine the issue of mother and baby homes. Not only is this work very important, but it could also be very useful in dovetailing with other things that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Facilities (11 Apr 2017) See 1 other result from this answer

Frances Fitzgerald: I propose to take Questions Nos. 130, 133 and 134 together. I am advised by the Irish Prison Service that the level of maternity care provided to women in custody, including ante-natal care, is comparable to that available to women in the community. It is provided on a shared care arrangement between the maternity hospital to which the patient is referred, and the Healthcare Team in the...

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (10 Jun 2014) See 7 other results from this debate

Charles Flanagan: I welcome the opportunity given by the House for statements on mother and baby homes in the Dáil tonight and I thank my colleagues on all sides of the House for facilitating these statements. I would like to begin by acknowledging the Irish women who were in mother and baby homes in this country in the last century and the children that they bore while in those institutions. Their...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (24 Feb 2021)

Dara Calleary: 627. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position of those who made submissions to the mother and baby home commission that did not relate to one of the 18 mother and baby homes of the commission, but to another home (details supplied); the way their testimony and personal details were incorporated into the work of the commission; if his...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 (24 May 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

Dr. Sara O'Byrne: To address the question about the in uteroexperiences, what comes to mind is that we look at two aspects regardless of the developmental stage. These are the history of adversity and the history of relational health. If we consider these aspects in the context of pregnant women living in mother and baby home institutions, we would look at elements such as whether the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (11 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: On 28 February 2021, with the dissolution of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, my Department became the data controller for all the personal data contained in the records and databases that transferred from the Commission. My Department is responsible for fulfilling data subject rights, including the right of access to personal data. I am very mindful of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Sustainable Development Goals and Departmental Priorities: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (3 Nov 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

Sharon Keogan: ...is possible, whatever the family make-up might be. Having a child brought up in a family environment is much better than having a child brought up in residential care. We have spoken about the mother and baby homes of yesteryear but what about today's mother and baby homes? Will the Minister provide the committee with details of these? Believe it or not, there are still mother and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (27 Jan 2021)

Helen McEntee: At the outset, I would like to express my deepest sympathies to all those who suffered both during their time in mother and baby homes, and as a result of those experiences during the years that followed. As the Deputy will appreciate, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management of An Garda Síochána, including the investigation of alleged crime, and I as Minister have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Apology (29 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...Questions Nos. 10 to 13, inclusive, together. Since taking office, I have issued one formal apology in the Dáil, on behalf of the State, for the hurt experienced by many former residents of mother and baby institutions and county homes. I apologised for the profound generational wrong visited upon Irish mothers and their children who ended up in a mother and baby home or county...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (18 Feb 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation will stand dissolved in law on 28th February 2021 and is due to submit its archive of records to my Department by that date. Former residents of Mother and Baby Homes will be able to make a Subject Access Request (SAR) to the Department under the GDPR for access to their record. My Department is working intensively to ensure that it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child and Infant Mental Health: Discussion (12 Nov 2015)

Professor Kevin Nugent: If it is not a bit self-promoting, one of the things I did with some of my colleagues was to develop an approach to working with new mothers and fathers in the perinatal period. Even though I have spoken of the importance of the first three years, we have found that the first three months are critical in the formation of a family. If we intervene at that point, we...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (25 Sep 2014) See 3 other results from this answer

James Reilly: The Commission of Investigation into matter relating to Mother and Baby Homes, once established, will be statutory and independent and will operate in accordance with the Commission of Investigations Act 2004. Discussions are on-going with my Government colleagues and the Attorney General with a view to finalising our deliberations on the Commission's terms of reference in early course. The...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Nov 2015) See 2 other results from this answer

James Reilly: The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters was established by Government Order on 17 February 2015 (S.I. No 57 of 2015). It is essential to recognise that in accordance with Section 9 of the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004, a Commission of Investigation is entirely independent in the performance of its functions. I am therefore not in a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (25 Oct 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The National Maternity Strategy refers specifically to the importance of the bond between an infant and their parents, in particular its mother. The purpose of the Strategy is to ensure standard, consistent models for the delivery of a national maternity service, reflecting best available evidence, and ensuring that all pregnant women have appropriate and informed choice, and access to the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: The recent debates about the mother and baby homes situation brought into stark reality how important it is to have clarity on data protection, what rules will apply and who will be applying them to ensure we have a data protection system that is fit for purpose and has the needs of the survivors at its heart. To what extent has the Minister sourced and consulted international and national...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (19 Jan 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: In accordance with its terms of reference, the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation investigated 14 Mother and Baby Homes and 4 County Homes.  On 28 February 2021, on the dissolution of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, the records of the Commission were transferred to my Department. My Department then became the data controller for all the personal...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Programme (8 Feb 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 473 and 479 together. I would like to thank the Deputy for drawing our attention to this typographical error in the Schedule of the published Bill. As she will be aware, the Schedule published as part of the General Scheme reads: “Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, CorkManor House Castlepollard” Due to the mistaken addition of line breaks, the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The programme for Government refers to the national maternity strategy. Many Members of this House are aware that interviews were held by RTE at national level and by some local radio stations with Lisa, who is the mother of baby Eoin, who was born prematurely and passed away in Letterkenny General Hospital last winter. Unfortunately, he was left in a room for up to a month before he was...