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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...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Investigations (21 Feb 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The leaking of the report into the mother and baby homes was very wrong. It caused considerable distress among the survivors of the homes. This investigation is very strange, and that is God's honest truth. In response to the parliamentary question submitted by Aontú, the Taoiseach stated the internal investigation into the leaking of the report on mother and baby homes was completed...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (4 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The more I reflect on the various State apologies issued, the more I become convinced that the Government does not mean a word of it. Tomorrow we debate the amendments to the mother and baby homes Bill. The Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, snuck in a number of amendments in the Seanad. In my reading, amendments Nos. 4, 5 and 6 would exclude countless women from the redress scheme who were sent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I have only got five minutes, and there are two minutes left. The other issue which I want to talk about is adverse incidents. Baby Christopher was born in the National Maternity Hospital. He was a fully healthy baby born aborted under the foetal fatal abnormality element of the Bill. Did Ms O'Shea speak to his mother?

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The number of abortions has jumped a devastating 25% just in the last year. Some 8,500 unborn children were aborted last year and this figure is nearly triple the rate it was in 2017. That proves the predictions made by human rights campaigners in 2018, that the legislation, if implemented, would see a massive increase in lost lives. In the four years since the law was put in place, 31,000...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I, too, welcome the Tuam Mother and Baby Home Alliance to the Gallery today. I commend its members on their hard work and perseverance with regard to the campaigning they have been doing. One quarter of the amendments, many of which are reasonable, have been ruled out of order, which is incredible. Will the Minister accept any amendments tonight?

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...? It is absurd. From speaking to survivors, it is clear to me that much of the abuse occurred when they were farmed out or boarded out from their homes. In many cases, people who were born in mother and baby homes were sent to local families where they were often ill-treated. They were required to work hard on the farm without pay and with no prospect of inheritance, in atrocious...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: In the Taoiseach's term of office, there have been a number of internal investigations in his Department into leaking to the media. One related to the report on mother and baby homes. It was alleged by some that it might have been the Taoiseach himself who leaked that document. It is nearly two years since the start of that investigation and there is still no result. Will there ever be a...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Investigations (4 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 125. To ask the Taoiseach if the investigation into the leaking of the final report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation has been concluded; if so, the findings of the investigation; and, if not, the estimated timeframe for the conclusion of that investigation. [47801/22]

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...-bedroom home is increasing by €100 every day in this State. We have record rents. Rents are more than €254 per month higher than they were during the Celtic tiger era. People in their twenties and thirties are paying a record share of their income on accommodation. In real terms, their spending power is falling. We also have record homelessness. More than 10,000...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the investigation being carried out by the Secretary General of his Department into the leaking of details of the mother and baby homes commission of investigation. [32076/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: In January 2021, parts of the final report of the mother and baby homes commission of investigation were leaked to the media prior to the survivors being furnished with the information. This was an enormous slap in the face to many survivors of those mother and baby homes. The Taoiseach verified the leak by giving a comment to the same journalist who ran the particular story. An internal...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: As a State, we need to make sure the highest standard of science and medical knowledge is at the heart of the decisions we make. The truth of the matter is the doctors and healthcare professionals I have spoken to are really frustrated with the language that has been used about their ability to provide services. If one goes to anybody in the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street or St....

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I also thank Deputy Paul Murphy for adding his personal story to the debate. I wish him and his partner the best of luck in their endeavours. The issues at the heart of this Bill are incredibly important and significant. They range from the families which desperately seek to have a child but cannot to the rights of the child to have a family and know their mother and father to the rights...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand that what we are doing is a delicate and complex job. I commend the Minister on getting the Bill to the floor of the Dáil and seeking to progress it. Much work has been done in developing the legislation. Much discussion has gone into it as well. Nonetheless, as Opposition Deputies, it is our job to critique the Bill, identify failings in it and suggests improvements...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: -----but there are many families who genuinely do not know if they are related to one of these babies. I have been talking to my Dáil assistant, Mr. Luke Silke, who has also been in contact with the Minister's office. Mr. Silke comes from Tuam, and he thinks we would have a much better chance of successfully identifying the babies' remains if the invitation to provide DNA samples was...

Mother and Baby Institutions: Statements (25 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: ...from the heart. He made a very important contribution to the record of the Chamber today. Cuirim fáilte roimh an deis labhairt ar an ábhar seo. I, like most Deputies, have received emails and telephone calls from survivors, including people born in a mother and baby home and women who gave birth in one. I want to discuss the issue of redress, but before I do I want to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: ...we in Aontú carried out in recent times found that over 200 children who are known to child protection services have died over the past ten years. Some 42 children died while in State care and 164 children who were known to child protection services died. Half of the children who died while in State care died either by suicide or by drug overdose. Twelve children were murdered...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: ...is, or when that investigation will be publicised. No information has been imparted to us on the basis of that question. As of yet, there are no consequences for the individuals who leaked that and for the pain and the suffering they caused to the survivors of the mother and baby homes. No action is a hallmark of the Taoiseach’s office. Even when the Tánaiste was involved...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the investigation being carried out by the Secretary General of his Department into the leaking of details of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation final report earlier in 2021. [37869/21]