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Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Thomas Pringle: I mentioned earlier in the House that Deputy Connolly was not well this evening so she could not make the debate. She asked me to read this out on her behalf. This Bill is divisive and discriminatory. It is excluding completely any child who spent less than six months in a mother and baby home. No reason is given except a bland claim they would not have known what was happening. This is...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Thomas Pringle: ...to do that. The first states: I would love to give my story to the dail as this really upsets me how things have turned out. I thank you for your help but as a child who was in st patricks and been in different childrens homes, I will still live with unanswered questions to do with my life. Things, such as photos of me been a baby might not be much to some people but it's my life no...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (15 Nov 2022)

Thomas Pringle: 440. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the criteria or actuarial tables that were used when calculating the cost of redress under the proposed mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56554/22]

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Thomas Pringle: ...66 headings. After two years, it has failed under most, if not all, of them. For my constituents in Donegal, it has failed on mica, farming, fishing, protecting the vulnerable, transport, broadband, homelessness, public housing, affordable housing, energy and emissions targets. It has failed family carers, mother and baby home survivors, people with disabilities and people with mental...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jan 2022)

Thomas Pringle: I am thankful for the opportunity to speak on the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022 today. I start by making it absolutely clear that this Bill does not provide unrestricted access to birth certificates for adopted people and I, along with many others, see through the narrative that this Government is trying to push that this is a fantastic Bill that gives adopted people exactly the...

Order of Business (7 Dec 2021)

Thomas Pringle: In June this year, the Data Protection Commission wrote to the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in regard to his Department's handling of subject access requests, SARs, from survivors of mother and baby homes. The commission told the Minister: "Concerning SI 82/1989, I have had reason to re-examine the Department's approach to SARs pertaining to health data...

Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I will first make a point about some of the comments of the previous speakers. We had a debate in this House last night about the mother and baby homes and the treatment of women by the State. Yet, the same Members have come in today to talk about the need for a religious aspect in our schools. It is the exact same religious aspect in our schools that led to the mother and baby home...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important issue. I completely support Sinn Féin’s motion for an expansion of the mother and baby homes redress scheme to all former residents of mother and baby homes regardless of how long or short their stay. I thank Deputy Funchion for bringing this motion to the House. I echo the words of the survivors' group, who I...

Adoption (Information) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Sep 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...accessing information. Under current law, adoptees do not have automatic entitlement to access their birth certificate or records relating to their adoption. This is an extremely important issue and a necessary Bill, and I can only hope that it receives the level of support that reflects the incredible level of public support there has been for the survivors of mother and baby homes. I...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Thomas Pringle: Here we are with yet another piece of rushed legislation, this time the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021. The Bill has not undergone pre-legislative scrutiny and was rushed through the Seanad last week and yesterday. While I completely understand that it is necessary to work around the situation Covid-19 created, the reality is that shortcuts are being taken and we do...

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

Thomas Pringle: 312. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the evaluation commissioned by his predecessor into the Mother and Baby Homes Collaborative Forum undertaken by a person (details supplied) in 2019 will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30299/21]

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

Thomas Pringle: 313. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth The learnings that have been taken from the operation of the Mother and Baby Homes Collaborative Forum; the improvements that will be made for future collaboration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30300/21]

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

Thomas Pringle: 314. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the Oak Report relating to the Mother and Baby Homes Collaborative Forum will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30301/21]

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

Thomas Pringle: 315. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the report of the Mother and Baby Homes Collaborative Forum will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30302/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (27 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 5. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the discussions his officials are undertaking with officials in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage regarding the importance of preserving possible burial grounds related to mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29011/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (27 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: This question relates to the designation of mother and baby home burial sites in county development plans, which is a vitally important issue. I have been writing to the Minister, Deputy Darragh O’Brien, in this regard but I believe it also comes under the remit of the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, and that he needs to address it. In light of the decision of An Bord Pleanála with...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (27 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I know some local authorities have engaged and have issued apologies and so on. These were the ones mentioned in the report but I do not need to tell the Minister that the report only picked a sample of mother and baby homes while they existed right across the country in every local authority area. That engagement needs to take place to ensure that as much as can be done to protect these...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (27 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 89. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the new proposed concept model of enhanced engagement with survivors of mother and baby institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26439/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (5 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the planning regulations or statutory instruments that could be used to advise local authorities to include conservation plans for sites of potential historical importance in their county development plans such as sites on and around former mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22011/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (5 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 432. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the Mother and Baby Home Collaborative Forum; when a chair will be appointed; the number of members that have resigned; if all places have been refilled; the last communication between his office and the forum; when the report of the forum will be published; when he will next meet with the forum;...