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Abuse at Certain Educational Institutions: Statements (24 Nov 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: .... The inquiry should cover other schools about which allegations have emerged in recent weeks. Complaints have been made about abuses in other Spiritan-run schools including St. Mary's College and St. Michael's College in Dublin, Rockwell College in Tipperary and many more schools around the country. It is crucial that the Government engage with victims' and survivors' views and ensure...

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

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Social Democrats for tabling this motion. There should be no more time wasted. The people of the mother and baby homes have suffered enough. It is time the redress scheme was introduced in recognition of what happened there. I will tell the House a story. I visited a person - I will not say where - because I knew that this person was alone. The individual was a survivor...

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

Richard O'Donoghue: I welcome the Bill that has been introduced by the Minister because there is at long last a voice for those who have gone unheard for decades - the voice of a mother or father trying to find a son or daughter and the voice of a child unable to discover his or her birth family, access health information or just get a birth certificate that is accurate. Within this legislation, there will be...

Impact of Covid-19 on Women for International Women’s Day: Statements (4 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: Since the outbreak of Covid-19, up-to-date data and reports from those on the front line have shown that all types of violence against women, particularly domestic violence, have intensified. It is hard to believe that one in three women in Ireland is affected by domestic violence. It is not confined to class, age, sexuality, religion or disability. It has been named as the shadow...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Feb 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: 5. To ask the Taoiseach his views on retracting the State apology given after the mother and baby homes report was finalised. [6979/21]

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

Richard O'Donoghue: 458. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on funds being made available for the erection of memorials for mother and baby homes. [6017/21]

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...problem in some of the hospitals that they could not deal with the amount of vaccines. I give all the praise in the world to the front-line staff, from doctors, nurses, carers, porters and across the board. In Limerick, the area I represent, there are front-line staff in Covid wards who are not getting vaccines and I hear that there are people in management, not directly involved in...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: The report of the mother and baby homes commission of investigation failed when it concluded that women who entered the homes after 1973 were to be excluded from the statutory redress. The report was never about compensation or redress. It is about recognition of unnecessary feeling of stigma that women such as Alice McEvoy suffered. She spoke passionately in The Irish Times. She said she...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I wish to start by wishing the Tánaiste and his family and all my colleagues in the Houses of the Oireachtas a happy and safe new year. That goes for all the people around Ireland. The time since Christmas has been difficult, with Covid-19 resulting in 172 people in intensive care and 17,000 hospitalised over Christmas. Before moving on to my questions to the Tánaiste, I wish to...

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

Richard O'Donoghue: The Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home operated between 1925 and 1961. It was located in Tuam, County Galway. I say to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and Deputy Canney that this is no reflection on the people of the county. I am very lucky to have my only living aunt, Ms Peggy McEnerney, living in Kinvarra, County Galway. She would not have me say a bad word about the county. The mother and...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Oct 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: 449. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the retention of records of the Tuam mother and baby home will not be available for public viewing following the findings of the commission of inquiry. [31242/20]