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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (30 Apr 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: 99. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications received to the mother and baby homes institutional redress scheme; the number of applications that have been processed and payments received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19203/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 Apr 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: 1092. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a copy of the waiver that some recipients of the mother and baby institutions payment scheme will be required to sign; who drafted the waiver; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14043/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 Apr 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: 1093. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the name of the company that has been given responsibility for administering the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; the total cost to administer the scheme; the details of the tender process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14044/24]

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

Kathleen Funchion: 1153. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is any provision to include survivors of mother and baby homes who contributed towards the Investigation Committee of the final Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation and who passed away before the Taoiseach's apology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12427/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (29 Feb 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: 110. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the exact date of the opening of the mother and baby institutions payment ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9498/24]

Commissions of Investigation (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Feb 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the Minister. I appreciate her comments regarding how the mother and baby home issue was handled. There is some possibility. I take on board what the Minister said regarding setting out a statement. I have to say, and the Minister will not be surprised, that just because of the level of work, particularly with the involvement of the Office of Parliamentary Legal Advisers, OPLA, I...

Commissions of Investigation (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Feb 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: I am delighted we are finally getting the opportunity to discuss this Bill as for us it has been a long time in the making. It was prompted by the mother and baby homes report that was published on 12 January 2021, having started up in 2015. It was a huge amount of time for people to have to wait. Over the days, weeks and months that followed, we all expressed our absolute shock at its...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (30 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: ...wishes to provide the answers to some of these questions in writing afterwards. Briefly, before I get into those questions, is there any expected date for the redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (14 Dec 2023)

Kathleen Funchion: 69. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on negotiations with relevant religious orders and pharmaceutical companies regarding their contributions to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; how many meetings have been held to date; what actions he intends to take outside of these discussions to ensure religious orders and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (14 Dec 2023)

Kathleen Funchion: This question is about negotiations with the various religious orders and, if any, the negotiations with pharmaceutical companies about their contributions to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme. How many meetings have been held to date? What actions do the Minister and his Department intend to take outside these discussions to ensure that religious orders and pharmaceutical...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the Minister. I have one additional question, which is also related to savings. In your opening statement, you spoke about savings occurring under the mother and baby home institution programmes. Could we get a little more information on that and on the same subject, do we have a date for the redress to start?

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

Kathleen Funchion: 78. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; when applications are due to open; when he expects after this date that payments will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48402/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (3 Oct 2023)

Kathleen Funchion: 561. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects the mother and baby institutions payment scheme to open for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42754/23]

Commissions of Investigation (Amendment) Bill 2023: First Stage (20 Sep 2023)

Kathleen Funchion: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 and to provide for related matters. I am delighted to introduce this Bill today. It has been in the works for a long time. It aims to amend the current Commissions of Investigation Act 2004. The idea for this Bill came to me during the work on the mother...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (23 May 2023)

Kathleen Funchion: 709. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of a one-off payment of €10,000, €15,000 or €20,000 to the approximately 4,800 boarded-out children as part of the mother and baby homes institutional payment scheme, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24953/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (23 May 2023)

Kathleen Funchion: 710. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total estimated cost of including all 24,000 mother and baby homes survivors currently excluded from the mother and baby homes payment scheme. [24954/23]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Ms Quinn. We will move to questions from members. Senator Seery Kearney has had to leave to attend the Seanad. Several members will be in the Seanad because the redress scheme for mother and baby homes is currently being discussed. The timing is unfortunate.

Report of the Independent Review Group on Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Kathleen Funchion: I welcome the women who are visiting the Dáil and commend their courage and bravery. I commend all of the women who spoke up. We owe them a debt of gratitude. Speaking up is not easy to do in any way, shape or form, but especially when dealing with such a male-dominated organisation. I also commend my colleague, Deputy Clarke, on her work on this matter. Too often, the Dáil...

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

Kathleen Funchion: I move amendment No. 62: In page 31, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: “(3) The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Eireann a report on the operation of the Mother and Baby Institution Payments Scheme. A report under this section shall consider the following matters: (a) the scope for inclusion of...

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

Kathleen Funchion: I also want to speak to amendment No. 56 which I am totally opposed to. It refers to somebody being required to submit additional information and yet the Minister just said that in many cases the records are not available. If we know the records are not available, what additional information can people possibly submit? Tonight and during countless debates we have asked why people who were...