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

Holly Cairns: 1111. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason he excluded the Cherry Orchard Hospital and other hospitals from the redress scheme; if he will reconsider these exclusions with respect to the fact some babies born in qualifying mother and baby homes were hospitalised after birth for several months before returning to an institution; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (6 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: 179. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in relation to prioritising the elderly in the redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes, what will the age criteria be; and if survivors will be entitled to redress even if they previously received redress for time spent in a mother and baby home as a person under the age of 18, but not for the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (27 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: 450. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the action plan for survivors and former residents of mother and baby and county home institutions; for an update on the excavation work in Tuam to recover remains; and to provide an update on negotiations with religious orders in regard to redress payment contributions [9169/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Commissions of Investigation (13 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: 134. To ask the Taoiseach to provide details on the investigation into the leak of the report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, including the time period in which it was conducted, the amount and grade of staff members assigned to the investigation and the budget allocated for the investigation. [6573/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (13 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: 546. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the estimated date for the opening of applications for the redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes, and the amount and grade of staff allocated to administering the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6574/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...does not need help from me for it to be characterised as sometimes being paternalistic in its attitude towards women. There is evidence of that in multiple pieces of legislation such as the mother and baby homes legislation, which told people they are somehow unaffected because they spent less than six months in an institution, and legislation that tells women they have to wait three days...

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

Holly Cairns: 1051. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the status of the excavation and exhumation of the mother and baby institution site in Tuam, County Galway. [48234/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (20 Sep 2023)

Holly Cairns: 842. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when it is expected to open applications for the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; the number of staff assigned to administer the scheme, by grade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40161/23]

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...point based on information that is incomplete. Senator Boylan highlighted better than any of us could how problematic this amendment is, but tonight marks the end of an incredibly disappointing and infuriating journey for tens of thousands of survivors of mother and baby homes. This redress scheme is flawed, callous, inhumane and discriminatory. Even at the last hour, there is an...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (30 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 57. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of his engagements with survivor and relative groups concerning potential interventions at the sites of former mother and baby homes. [25839/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (11 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 252. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 29 of 30 March 2023, the steps he is taking to examine evidence presented to the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters concerning the burial of human remains at the former mother-and-baby home site (details supplied) and to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: In January 2021, the Government first wrote to the religious orders asking them to contribute to the redress scheme for mother and baby institutions. A series of meetings between the Minister and the religious orders began to take place and we had an update on those negotiations this week. According the Irish Examiner, they have been put on the back burner. We have now been hearing the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Adoption Services (30 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...the Minister said how many of the applications are waiting for longer than the statutory time period, but maybe I missed it. That was one of my questions. We all knew there was going to be thousands of applications when the Minister set out the timeframes for responses. People have been waiting for decades to access this really basic information about themselves. Every time I and other...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (30 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 29. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of his engagements with survivor and relative groups concerning potential interventions at the sites of former mother and baby homes. [15562/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (28 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 540. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will engage with the survivors and their relatives of a former mother-and-baby home (details supplied) to pursue an appropriate intervention as allowed for under the Institutional Burials Act 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15493/23]

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: I also wish everyone a happy International Women's Day. Although this annual session for International Women’s Day is a welcome chance to highlight the issues impacting girls and women, I have to wonder if I could just dust off last year’s speech and give it again. What has changed in the meantime? The Government’s announcement of the referendum on removing the...

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

Holly Cairns: ...processed in a timely manner. The current wording states that a deciding officer will assess an application "as soon as practicable". That is completely unacceptable. The amendment in my name and that of other Deputies insists that this be replaced with "within 28 days". These amendments are necessary because survivors and campaigners do not trust the process the Minister is proposing....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (21 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: 510. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that five facilities (details supplied) are added to the schedule of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022. [8611/23]

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I welcome the opportunity to look at the Department's Estimates and spending, particularly given that it seemed to be the overriding concern when it came to denying redress for thousands of survivors of mother and baby institutions. The main finding of the Department's report was that survivors want redress to be based on forced family separation as a priority. Time spent in an institution...

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

Holly Cairns: ...amount of time in an institution. The section relates to people who make another application to the scheme in the unlikely situation that another institution is added to the list of institutions, and the arbitrary six-month criteria is relevant here as well. The arbitrary six-month exclusion has been widely criticised and highlighted as having no basis in evidence other than as a tool to...