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Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: ...available in six. Alongside this, national guidelines are also due to be published. It is important that these scans are made available so that no parent is left in the situation in which a young mother found herself in Kerry recently. She gave birth to a baby who had a serious heart condition. Her baby was transferred to hospital in Dublin while she had to remain in Kerry. Having just...

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Anne Rabbitte: There has been a huge and entirely appropriate outcry in recent years over the shameful way some of our most vulnerable citizens were treated. We have all been moved by this. As the realisation deepens regarding how unfairly some of our citizens were treated in the past, we more fully understand that the effects continue to ripple through to today. We witness the pain felt so deeply by...

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

Peadar Tóibín: 555. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the mother and baby homes institutions payment scheme has not yet opened to survivors, despite the legislation pertaining to same having been passed by Dáil Éireann twelve months ago; if his Department has undertaken any research to determine how many survivors of mother and baby homes die...

Seanad: Hospital Services (19 May 2009) See 1 other result from this debate

Geraldine Feeney: I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to raise this important issue and I thank the Minister for agreeing to take the Adjournment debate. The matter I want to raise relates to expectant mothers, and the case I will deal with is in the Galway area. An expectant mother cannot avail of private accommodation in a public hospital unless she has made a private contractual arrangement with a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (8 Mar 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and related matters identified 923 deaths relating to children who were associated with the former Mother and Baby Home, Bessborough, Cork. It concluded that it is likely that some of the children are buried in the grounds of Bessborough but was unable to find any physical or documentary evidence of this.   In November...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I agree with all previous speakers today. I want to express my most sincere sympathy to all those affected by the mother and baby homes. This deeply saddening discovery confirms our worst suspicion about mother and baby homes. It shows the importance of the ongoing commission of investigation. This is across Ireland. The sadness here today is evident. There is such sadness in the Seanad...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Feb 2021)

Micheál Martin: The Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was considered by Government and published on 12 January. On 13 January, I issued a 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...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Feb 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was established in 2015 response to significant concerns around a specific type of institution, namely mother and baby homes. The investigation was framed to provide a clear emphasis on the experiences of women and children who spent time in these institutions. Initially the public focus was very narrow and related to...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I take it the Deputy is referring to the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme. This will be the largest scheme of its type in the history of the State with an anticipated 34,000 people eligible for its benefits. Given its scale and significance the Scheme has been placed on a statutory footing and enabling legislation was signed into law last July. A comprehensive body of work has been...

Order of Business (25 Sep 2014) See 1 other result from this debate

Joan Burton: When we spoke at length about this last week, I said that this is a certain part of the hidden history of Ireland. I have had a long personal involvement in this issue. I know many people who were in these homes and institutions. I told Deputy McDonald last week that Judge Yvonne Murphy has been appointed by the Government to conduct an inquiry. Rather than rushing the terms of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions (18 Nov 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...institutions was impacted, although I am not sure I agree that every person was impacted the exact same. Certainly my engagements with survivors would suggest that people have different responses and reactions to the time spent in the institutions but I agree with Deputy Browne that everyone was impacted. It is the desire and intention of the Government, across the action plan and the 22...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (17 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter, namely, to finally address thelong-standing request which Marie ThereseO'Loughlin has made to the Government to take responsibility, through the Residential Institutions Redress Board, for the injuries she sustained at the mother and baby unit at the Morning Star Mother and Baby Home in 1952, a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (14 Dec 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme will be the largest scheme of its type in the history of the State with an anticipated 34,000 people eligible under its terms. Given its scale and significance the Scheme has been placed on a statutory footing as enabling legislation was signed into law in July this year. Before and since the passing of the legislation a comprehensive body of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015) See 2 other results from this answer

James Reilly: I announced the proposed Terms of Reference for the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters on Friday, 9th January. While due regard has been given to the emphasis on “Mother and Baby Homes” in the motion approved by Dáil Eireann on the 11th June 2014, the terms of reference also reflect a much wider agenda of directly related...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (6 Oct 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 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. This includes the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (13 Oct 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes (and Certain Related Matters) was published in January of this year. Bethany Home was one of the 14 named mother and baby home institutions directly investigated by the Commission. In response to the findings of the Commission, Government committed to establishing a Restorative Recognition Scheme for eligible...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Dáil is in the final stages of legislating for the redress scheme for the survivors of the mother and baby homes. There is widespread criticism of this scheme from Opposition, legal and human rights experts and, most importantly of all, from the survivors. The main criticism stems from the exclusion of survivors who have spent less than six months in these institutions. That means...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation Data (6 Nov 2018)

Katherine Zappone: The sum of €2.27 million has been expended to date in 2018 through the Vote of my Department to support the independent Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters. In accordance with its Terms of Reference, the Commission is tasked with examining the experience of mothers and children resident in Mother and Baby Homes and a representative...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (10 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme will provide financial payments and health supports in the form of an enhanced medical card to eligible persons who spent time in Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. The Payment Scheme is designed to be non-adversarial and will not require applicants to bring forward evidence of abuse or harm suffered. It will consist of a general...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (7 Jul 2015) See 1 other result from this answer

James Reilly: The figure of 25 deaths contained in the report of the Inter-Departmental Group on Mother and Baby Homes is taken from a table based on the 1934-35 Annual Report of the Department of Local Government and Public Health which, as its title suggests, is a report on a single year and covered the entire country. This table was originally published in 2007 in Maternity and Child Welfare in Dublin...