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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (14 Dec 2023)

Seán Canney: What survivors are saying to me is that there is no clinical or medical reason somebody who spent six months or less in a mother and baby home would have been treated differently from somebody who spent more than six months there. They fail to see what the criteria are. I know there is an interdepartmental group, but they are saying that they spent time in these mother and baby homes. They...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (14 Dec 2023)

Seán Canney: 81. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will allow for the redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes to be extended to include survivors who spent less time in a home than the current threshold of six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54568/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (14 Dec 2023)

Seán Canney: With regard to the redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes, the legislation that was passed excluded those who were not in a mother and baby home for six months or more. Has the Minister considered reviewing that legislation? A significant number of people are very upset at their exclusion. It is not so much about compensation; it is more about recognition that they spent...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (14 Dec 2023)

Seán Canney: 76. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider extending the DNA testing to family members who are cousins to identify remains at the mother and baby home in Tuam as a result of advancements in the science of DNA testing since the Bill was enacted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54569/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (14 Dec 2023)

Seán Canney: We discussed this before, but with the advances in the science of DNA testing, can we now allow for family members outside of the sons, daughters, grandsons and granddaughters to have their DNA sampled to try to identify their families within the mother and baby home in Tuam?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (7 Dec 2023)

Seán Canney: 293. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the necessary resources can be made available to survivors of mother and baby homes to trace their records; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54253/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Nursing Homes (10 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: 425. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the long-term costs of a nursing home are being paid by the State for people who were in mother and baby homes; what assistance is available for nursing home costs in such situations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43682/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 1177. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that the State forensic investigators are to acquire advanced new technology to allow them to identify relatives of children buried at Tuam Mother and Baby Home; and if he will allow relatives as distant as half nieces and nephews and cousins to be matched to remains; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Canney: 1668. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to install mother-and-baby carpark spaces in the primary care centre, Tuam; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17651/23]

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

Seán Canney: First, I welcome the members of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home Alliance who are in the Visitors' Gallery listening to the debate this evening. Let us take as an example what happened in Tuam between 1925 and 1961. It took the courage of Catherine Corless to come up with the findings on that. Listen to the outcry among the public at what happened there and in other places. The light of hope...

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important issue and I compliment Deputy Cairns and the Social Democrats for introducing this motion. As a Deputy living and based in Tuam, the Tuam mother and baby home has been a focus of attention over a number of years. The discovery of 796 babies buried in a mass grave is something that shocked the world. This watershed moment came...

Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Seán Canney: ...has shown, since we have started taking in asylum seekers, that the conditions under which they have been living are not right. Human rights issues have not been addressed. We have placed people and families in congregated settings. For whatever reason, we have put them in buildings where they live in dormitories. They are isolated from communities. It takes a lot of time to get them...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medical Cards (26 Apr 2022)

Seán Canney: 1116. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he plans to make medical cards available to all survivors of mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19696/22]

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

Seán Canney: ...legislation, approved recently by the Cabinet. It came about as a result of the discovery of the mass grave in my local town, Tuam, County Galway. Last weekend, I met some members of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home Alliance and I have taken on board their concerns relating to the legislation, which, they advised, demands amendments that will be submitted by them and others. Many experts...

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

Seán Canney: ...have gone to their graves without finding their families or ever receiving from the State the most basic information many of us take for granted, such as knowing the family of our birth, heritage and medical history, which can literally save a life. I am happy to take the opportunity to speak on this important Bill. Survivors from the Tuam Mother and Baby Home Alliance who contacted me...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (19 Jan 2022)

Seán Canney: 1107. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is an investigative unit in place to investigate anomalies in the files of persons who gave birth to children in mother and baby homes whose files are not correct; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1613/22]

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

Seán Canney: I thank Sinn Féin for putting forward the motion. I supported and put my name to the motion on the basis that the idea of dividing people has come across very badly with survivors. In the past week, I have spoken to a number of survivors about the redress scheme. They are disappointed because they all came into this together, told their stories together and bared their souls in public...

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jun 2021)

Seán Canney: I compliment Deputy Catherine Connolly and her colleagues on bringing forward the motion. It might have been an ill-judgment of the Minister to leave before some of the contributions were made. I say this with no disrespect to the Minister of State, Deputy Mary Butler, and I acknowledge her presence. The Covid-19 situation and all the restrictions that came into being gave rise to angst...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (21 Apr 2021)

Seán Canney: 1215. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for not advertising the call for submission on a restorative recognition scheme for former residents of the mother and baby homes in a publication (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18225/21]