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Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: On 21 July 2011, the then Secretary General of the Department of Finance famously stated, "The Government of Ireland pays its debts, always has and plans to do so." Of course, he was talking about the use of billions of euro of Irish taxpayers' money being used to bail out unsecured bank bondholders, because the Government of Ireland does not always pay its debts and, certainly, not when it...

Back to School Costs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: ...to support families with the costs of sending their children back to school. I welcome the measures that were announced today. I particularly welcome the announcement of free school transport, and I hope it will become a permanent measure. I also hope the school transport scheme will be expanded so we can get rid of the ludicrous situation where school buses in my constituency are...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (18 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: 284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the information that has been brought into the public domain regarding the deaths of children at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home at Tuam, County Galway that has been the subject of any criminal investigation; if excavations will take place at the site; the next steps that will be taken to secure the full information as...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: 355. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the fact that the Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes appears to have failed to reach findings in respect of St. Gerard's Mother and Baby Home; if he accepts the Church of Ireland executive summary claim that the commission knows very little about St....

Direct Provision: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Matt Carthy: The direct provision systems should be a source of shame to us all, particularly considering the history of people from our country seeking sanctuary from hunger and oppression in other places across the world. The direct provision system has failed utterly those who have sought asylum and also local host communities. I was struck recently in listening to recollections of those who were...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: "After being freed from Bessborough, my life was made up of continual suicide attempts ... I could not accept how my baby had been allowed to die without any medical care." Those are the words of a survivor. Many Irish women were deeply, physically and mentally hurt by the abuse suffered in the mother and baby homes. It is hard to believe that such injustice could ever have been so...