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Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2015)

Joe Costello: ...án Ó Ríordáin, to the House. I also welcome the opportunity to speak on this extremely important legislation. Yesterday we addressed a further aspect of the institutionalisation of many women and children in this country over decades, namely, the establishment of the mother and baby homes commission. We still have quite a long way to go in the work that must be done...

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (Resumed) (21 Jan 2015)

Joe Costello: I welcome the Minister. I welcome the initiative he has introduced and am glad to have the opportunity to speak on the motion on the draft order for the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes. The terms of reference are not perfect by any means. In fact, they make it quite clear that this is not the final word on the issue of the treatment of mothers and babies in this...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (14 Jan 2015)

Joe Costello: 488. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will make arrangements for the exhumation of a child (details supplied) in order to determine cause of death and based on the evidence uncovered, if he will include the case in the inquiry into mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49480/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (18 Nov 2014)

Joe Costello: 342. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress that has been made in establishing the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes led by Judge Yvonne Murphy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44274/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (25 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: 147. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will include the case of a person (details supplied) in the inquiry into mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36160/14]

(8 Jul 2009)

Joe Costello: .... Some weeks ago in the House we were appalled by the contributions detailing the contents of the Ryan report including the appalling treatment of vulnerable children put in the care of the State and religious orders. Deputy Quinn's Bill proposes to move on the debate. The issue must not rest here and we must ensure the debate moves forward. There is unfinished business in respect of...

Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)

Joe Costello: The involuntary committal of tens of thousands of innocent children to godless institutions run by religious congregations was a crime against humanity. That the State, the founding fathers of which had pledged to cherish the children of the nation, should be complicit in this inhumane treatment of its young within a few short years of its foundation is a shocking reflection on how high...

Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Feb 2005)

Joe Costello: I must say that when the Minister does it, he does it. Some 22 pages in 45 minutes, as Gaeilge, was certainly over and above the call of duty. A Bill that is likely to contain amendments which will be in excess of the substance of the original text is not the way to do business. The Minister has a penchant for introducing a Bill and then producing a range of ancillary and miscellaneous...