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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (14 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: In March 2022 I secured Government approval for the draft Heads of Bill for the Mother and Baby Institution Payment Scheme. I sought priority drafting of the Bill to ensure that it can be introduced to the Houses of the Oireachtas as soon as possible. I also referred the draft Heads of Bill to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (24 Jun 2014) See 2 other results from this answer

Frances Fitzgerald: Responsibility for determining the terms of reference for mother and baby home Commission of Investigation fall primarily within the remit of my colleague the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. My Department has input into the process through the Inter Departmental Committee established by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. It is my understanding that Bethany Home will be...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: Following publication of the Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, An Taoiseach offered a formal apology on behalf of the Government, the State and its citizens to all those who spent time in these institutions. In this apology, An Taoiseach acknowledged the failings of the State, over many decades, to protect vulnerable citizens, and to uphold their...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme provides financial payments and health supports to eligible people who spent time in a Mother and Baby or County Home Institution. It is recognised that there are people who suffered stigma, trauma and abuse in other institutions, and outside of institutions also. However, the institutions covered by the Scheme are those identified by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Updates on Breastfeeding: Discussion (12 May 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Gino Kenny: ...before us today. I do not know a huge amount about this issue but I am obviously learning. It is a fascinating subject. I am not sure if anybody has mentioned a perinatal division in Ireland. Approximately a year ago, I saw a report on perinatal care and mother and baby units in Great Britain on the BBC and was really struck by it. These are specialised units for women suffering from...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2017)

Katherine Zappone: ...the photographer was not readily identifiable from the information contained in my Departments financial management system. Officials are going through the records to ascertain the names involved and I will revert to the Deputy in due course. Date Photographer Nature of Employment Cost 2012 Derek Spiers (Report Ltd) How we see it: Report of a survey on Teenagers Body Image...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes made significant findings in relation to the failings of the State and religious bodies, who together ran Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. The Government believes all relevant parties have a collective responsibility to respond to the legacy of these institutions. In May 2023 the Government approved my proposal to...

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (14 Nov 2006)

Mary Harney: The Maternity and Infant Care Scheme does not cover doctor on call charges for children under six weeks old. The 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. After the birth, the scheme provides for two designated visits to the general practitioner for the baby:- the first two...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I was enjoying that. We all know there is so much hurt out there felt by the survivors of the mother and baby homes and their families. They feel let down by the report of the commission. They also feel let down that the three members of the commission would not come before the Oireachtas children's committee to discuss their findings. Last night, however, Oxford University advertised...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (30 May 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...major investment in the State. Nothing specifically came up that was untoward about it. However, the numbers availing of it are much larger than we expected. Almost all came from the one country and that raised concerns. That is why we suspended it. Let us not forget that it brought millions of euro into sports clubs, community centres and economic programmes all around the country....

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2017)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...People might laugh, but he has always supported women, as have my colleagues. I make reference to what Deputy Micheál Martin said on radio today when he referred to the savage treatment of women and their children in mother and baby homes across the country. He referred, in particular, to the Tuam mother and baby home and the appalling testimonies we have heard in the past few...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme will provide financial payments to an estimated 34,000 people, some 19,000 of whom will also benefit from an enhanced medical card or health support payment. These benefits are in recognition of experiences while resident in Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. The overall cost of the Payment Scheme is estimated at €800 million....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (16 Jun 2015) See 4 other results from this answer

James Reilly: ...process should be appropriately communicated by the HSE. I can confirm that my Department is not aware of any such subsequent report by the HSE. As these issues are now within the remit of the Child and Family Agency, I will ask the Agency to reply directly to the Deputy and request that I am sent a copy of this reply. The Department of Children and Youth Affairs became actively...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (20 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Government does not wish to disregard or diminish any person’s experience and recognises that there are people who suffered stigma, trauma and abuse in other institutions and outside of institutions who will not qualify for the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme. The Commission found that the named Mother and Baby Homes were ‘unquestionably the main such homes...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Sep 2018)

Katherine Zappone: The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters is an independent statutory investigation. I am not therefore in a position to provide detailed progress updates on this work. Any available updates would be posted by the Commission directly to its website. The Commission's terms of reference, attached as a schedule to Statutory Instrument No. 57 of 2015,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (11 May 2017) See 1 other result from this answer

Katherine Zappone: My commitment to a Transitional Justice approach is intended to directly support the cohort of unmarried mothers and their children who were resident for a time in a Mother and Baby Home or County Home. While the independent statutory investigation progresses its work, I wish to develop complementary gender-sensitive transitional justice mechanisms which could support and empower former...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (5 Apr 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme will provide financial payments and a form of enhanced medical card for people who spent time as mothers or children in Mother and Baby or County Home Institutions. It is recognised that there are people who suffered stigma, trauma and abuse in other institutions, and outside of institutions also. However, the institutions covered by...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (23 Jan 2024)

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 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 undertaken to develop the substantial...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: HSE Properties (28 Jun 2018)

Katherine Zappone: I propose to take Questions Nos. 260 and 261 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that the Department of Children and Youth Affairs does not hold records in relation to the issues raised. In addition, I am advised that Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, does not hold records relevant to the Deputy's query.  I note from the information provided by the Deputy that the cemetery...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Mother and Baby Homes (14 Dec 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...raising this matter. I am taking this on behalf of the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman. We are conscious that the uncertainty regarding the burial place of many children who were resident at the former mother and baby institution in Bessborough is difficult for the families concerned. The investigation of burial arrangements in mother and baby institutions, including Bessborough, was an...