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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (21 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will be aware, last June Government approved proposals for the delivery of a package of ongoing supports and services for survivors of abuse in residential institutions, relating to health, education, advocacy and trauma-informed practice. This package of supports was developed following consideration of the final report of the survivor-led Consultative Forum, along with other...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mother and Baby Homes (5 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will be aware, last June Government approved proposals for the delivery of a package of ongoing supports and services for survivors of abuse in residential institutions, relating to health, education, advocacy and trauma-informed practice. This package of supports was developed following consideration of the final report of the survivor-led Consultative Forum, along with other...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Projects (3 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: The establishment of a national memorial for children who were victims of abuse in residential institutions is the final outstanding recommendation of the Final Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, the Ryan Report, which was published in 2009. For a number of years, the Department has ring-fenced capital funding of €500,000 for this purpose. However, a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (16 May 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department holds certain records relating to former residents of 59 industrial schools and reformatories, who were placed there by way of a Court order. These records generally consist of extracts from Registers, database entries (i.e. computerised versions of the Registers) and some individual pupil and family files, etc. However, it should be noted that the Department generally does not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (2 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: The main purpose of the Retention of Records Bill 2019 was to ensure the preservation of the records of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, the Residential Institutions Redress Board and the Residential Institutions Review Committee which may otherwise, in accordance with the relevant legislation, be required to be destroyed upon the dissolution of those bodies. The Bill lapsed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (21 Jan 2021)

Norma Foley: I am supportive of proposals for memorialisation and agree that the legacy of abuse that has been uncovered by Commissions of Investigation should never be forgotten. The Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate subject specifications for History provide flexibility and opportunities for the findings of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission report and other reports on institutional abuse to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Monuments (22 Sep 2020)

Norma Foley: The proposed Memorial for children who were victims of abuse in children's residential institutions and which won an open competition, was called the Journey of Light and was designed by Studio Negri and Hennessy & Associates. The design concept was that the Memorial would be integrated with the Garden of Remembrance and would provide an enduring symbol of lost innocence to inspire...