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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 402. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he consulted with the Collaborative Forum of Former Residents of Mother and Baby Homes and Related Institutions prior to or following his announcement last year of his intention to appoint a human rights legal expert to review the evidence given to the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Residential Institutions Redress Scheme was a scheme operated by the Department of Education and I cannot comment on that scheme or its scope. My department is responsible for delivery of the comprehensive package of support measures agreed by the Government as part of the Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. A cornerstone...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

...: I thank the committee again for the opportunity to be here. We believe that the principles of transitional justice really must inform all of the activities of the Oireachtas in dealing with the mother and baby homes and the various pieces of legislation. While understanding that this is broader than the survivors of the mother and baby homes, legislators must understand that it is so...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 Dec 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: An Interdepartmenal Group (IDG) was tasked by Government with developing detailed proposals for a payment scheme for former residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. The Government, having considered the proposals put forward by the IDG, have approved details of a Scheme called the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Feb 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

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...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (17 Jan 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 1352. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of any engagement he has had with survivors’ groups since the announcement of the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; if his Department keeps a record of the number of former residents of mother and baby institutions, and in particular the number who have passed away since the...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015) See 1 other result from this debate

James Reilly: As the Deputy has just come into the Chamber, I will reiterate what I have said already, even though Deputies Troy and Ó Caoláin may now have heard it twice. To put it in context, as the Deputy is aware, I announced the proposed terms of reference for the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes and certain related matters last week. In developing the terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 621. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will outline, in the aftermath of the mother and baby homes legislation, the information that will be handed to Tusla; the information that will be kept by his Department; the records that will be sealed for 30 years; the personal information that will be available to persons who were in mother and baby homes; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 Jul 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 15 to 17, inclusive, together. Prior to the consideration by the Government of the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, certain information with regard to matters in the report was disclosed in a newspaper report. In that context, I requested that an investigation be carried out. This investigation is being done in...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I am acutely aware of the urgency to open the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme and I will do so within this quarter. I am also very conscious that many potential applicants to the Scheme are very elderly, and in that regard I made provision in the underpinning legislation for the Scheme that priority may be given to an application depending on the applicant’s circumstances,...

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (Resumed) (21 Jan 2015) See 4 other results from this debate

The following motion was moved by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy James Reilly, on Wednesday, 21 January 2015:That Dáil Éireann: — having regard to the motion passed by Dáil Éireann on 11th June 2014 which recognised the need to establish the facts regarding the deaths of children at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway...

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (Resumed) (28 Jan 2015) See 6 other results from this debate

The following motion was moved by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy James Reilly, on Wednesday, 21 January 2015:That Dáil Éireann: — having regard to the motion passed by Dáil Éireann on 11th June 2014 which recognised the need to establish the facts regarding the deaths of children at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (7 Feb 2018)

Katherine Zappone: As the Deputy will be aware, Bessboro Mother and Baby Home is one of the institutions currently being investigated by the statutory Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters. As part of its terms of reference the Commission is directed to investigate and to make a report on burial arrangements in respect of persons who died while resident in these...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (8 Jul 2015) See 1 other result from this answer

James Reilly: The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters was formally established by Government Order on the 17th February 2015. In accordance with its comprehensive Terms of Reference, the Commission is tasked with thoroughly examining the experience of mothers and children resident in Mother and Baby Homes and a representative sample of County Homes. The...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Records (17 Jul 2014)

Alan Kelly: My Department is participating in the Inter-Departmental Group on Mother and Baby Homes. Local Authorities are responsible for maintaining their own archives and my Department does not collect detailed information in this regard. However, based on work carried out in connection with the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Jun 2014) See 4 other results from this answer

Dominic Hannigan: 608. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans regarding the situation of the discovery of the deaths of children that has been uncovered in the mother and baby home in Tuam, County Galway; when his Department learned of the number of deaths of children in the mother and baby home in Tuam; if this home received State funding, if so, the amount in each year it received...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (1 Feb 2024)

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 list of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (11 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 252. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 29 of 30 March 2023, the steps he is taking to examine evidence presented to the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters concerning the burial of human remains at the former mother-and-baby home site (details supplied) and to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of a Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the two witnesses, Ms Ansbro and Ms Carthy, for that good information provided. Last month, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties asked the UN to request that the Government set up an independent investigation into mother and baby homes and the illegal adoption in Ireland in the 20th century. Can Ms Ansbro tell me what the UN's response was? I would welcome this. There are too...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (27 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 415 and 451 together. I am acutely aware of the sense of urgency surrounding the establishment of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme and I will do so within this quarter. I am also very conscious that many potential applicants to the Scheme are elderly, and in that regard I made provision in the underpinning legislation for the Scheme that...