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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (11 Jun 2014)

Charles Flanagan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 178 and 181 together. The revelations in Tuam, Co Galway have brought to the fore the situation in other Mother and Baby Homes throughout the country. The practices in Mother and Baby homes have to date not featured prominently in the various reviews and investigations which have dealt with many of the past abuses which were inflicted on vulnerable citizens,...

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (10 Jun 2014)

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...

Death and Burial of Children in Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2014)

Charles Flanagan: I am pleased to be back in the House to participate in a somewhat lengthier debate on mother and baby homes, following earlier statements. I thank Members on all sides for facilitating statements and the debate on mother and baby homes in the Dáil following the Government's significant decision during a Cabinet meeting this morning to establish a commission of investigation. As...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 Jul 2014)

Charles Flanagan: The Government has undertaken to establish a commission of investigation into the issues relating to mother and baby homes. While I have confirmed that the intended scope of this investigation will go beyond the home operated by the Sisters of Bon Secours in Tuam, County Galway, the process to develop specific terms of reference is being advanced in collaboration with relevant colleagues...

Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (5 Jun 2014)

Charles Flanagan: I wish to thank the Deputies for raising this important issue which has been met with shock and horror over the past few days. The situation in Tuam, in particular, is almost too graphic and horrible to believe - young, innocent children, their lives so short and harrowing were, it seems, even in death not even given a proper, decent or humane burial. While the revelations in Tuam are...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 Jul 2014)

Charles Flanagan: It is not my intention to prejudge the outcome of the Government's deliberation on the commission to investigate mother and baby homes. I hope the detailed terms of reference could be formulated in the coming weeks. It is my intention that the commission will commence work during the summer and that prior to 17 July, the last Dáil sitting day, the formal terms of reference will be...

Death and Burial of Children in Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2014)

Charles Flanagan: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following:acknowledges the need to establish the facts regarding the deaths of almost 800 children at the Bon Secours Sisters institution in Tuam, County Galway between 1925 and 1961, including arrangements for the burial of these children; acknowledges that there is also a need to...

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

Charles Flanagan: 435. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 496 of 28 November 2023, if he will provide an update on implementing the arrangements under the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5117/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Jun 2014)

Charles Flanagan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 598, 605, 606, 608 and 609 together. The revelations in Tuam, Co Galway have brought to the fore the situation in other Mother and Baby Homes throughout the country. The practices in Mother and Baby homes have to date not featured prominently in the various reviews and investigations which have dealt with many of the past abuses which were inflicted on...

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

Charles Flanagan: 496. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the urgency attached to implementing the arrangements under the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023, having regard to the advancing years of some of the applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52040/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Adoption Records Provision (7 Oct 2014)

Charles Flanagan: My Department retains over 2,200 files relating to passport applications for children sent abroad for adoption between the late 1940s and the early 1970s. These files are not a comprehensive record of all children sent abroad for adoption. It is not possible to provide an exact number of persons for which records are held as, in cases where more than one child was adopted by the same...

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (10 Jun 2014)

Charles Flanagan: I thank the Members who spoke and I welcome the unity of voice and purpose that exists in the House in respect of a shared desire to shine a light on what we have described as a dark chapter of our modern Irish history. I thank the Members of the Opposition who responded positively to my invitation to meet me to discuss these matters today and I give a commitment that this approach will...

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

Charles Flanagan: At the outset it is important to state that the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes (and certain related Matters) is independent in the conduct of its investigations. Therefore, the communications strategy is a matter for the Commission. No request has been received by my Department in this regard. However, I am informed that the Commission has used information published...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)

Charles Flanagan: Senator Ó Donnghaile, I have already ruled as Chair that the committee is not charged with any remit dealing with mother and baby homes or any discussion at Cabinet pertaining to same. That notwithstanding, the Secretary General is already on record at this committee as making a comment. I am unsure as to the extent to which the Secretary General would wish either to repeat that or...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 Jul 2014)

Charles Flanagan: The Government has undertaken to establish a Commission of Investigation into the disturbing revelations on conditions and related matters in Mother and Baby Homes. I have publicly confirmed that the intended scope of this investigation will go beyond the home operated by the Sisters of Bon Secours in Tuam, Co. Galway and will include the Bethany Home. The incorporation of any further...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)

Charles Flanagan: I am pleased to have the opportunity to visit the Upper House today to hear Senators' views on the serious matter of mother and baby homes, following the significant decision of the Government yesterday to approve my proposal for a commission of investigation. At the outset, let me say that we are now at a planning stage. Yesterday, the Cabinet agreed that the complexity and gravity of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Data (1 Oct 2019)

Charles Flanagan: ...to women in custody, 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 Dochas or Limerick Prison. The Health Service Executive is responsible for ante-natal education services and the number of these classes is a matter for the Health Service...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 Jul 2014)

Charles Flanagan: I refer the Deputy to the resolution already agreed by this House regarding mother and baby homes, the arrangements for the burial of children, the need to document fully and accurately the history of these homes and other issues that have arisen, a number of which have appropriately been mentioned by the Deputy. I refer specifically to infant mortality rates, irregular adoptions both within...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 Jul 2014)

Charles Flanagan: I am anxious to ensure that we establish the truth and the historic context of mother and baby homes. We will do so without losing sight of the responsibility that my Department and this House bear for the children of today. Over the past couple of weeks, as well as holding several constructive engagements with Deputy Ó Caoláin and his party colleague, Deputy McLellan, I have also...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 Jul 2014)

Charles Flanagan: ...the interdepartmental committee. I agree that a social historian or archivist should be involved to ensure all documentation is appropriately logged. Issues exist relating to burial arrangements and high mortality rates at mother and baby homes. There are other issues too, such as clinical trials, domestic and international adoptions, the circumstances of mothers and the manner in which...