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Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General: Financial Resolution (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: Budget 2023 marks another step on the road to the transformation of early learning and childcare in our country . In 2018, the State set a goal of investing €1 billion per year in childcare by 2028. With the €346 million one-year increase in budget 2023, we have achieved that goal, a full five years early. As Minister with responsibility for children, this is something I am...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I wish to speak on the section. It will take a few minutes. I am opposing section 73 of the Bill, which amends section 85 of the 2015 Act. That section, as it stands, allows for consideration of the interests of unborn children in a very rare set of circumstances. In summary, the existing section 85(6)(a) provides that where a woman lacks capacity and is pregnant but her AHD does not...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (27 Sep 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Patrick Costello: 344. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if schools (details supplied) will be included in the proposed mother and baby home redress scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46659/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (27 Sep 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 350. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when survivors can expect to see their share of the approved €800 million of expenditure over the life cycle of the mother-and-baby homes redress scheme; the estimated amount of additional new measures monies which will need to be provided for 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47010/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medical Cards (27 Sep 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 351. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the enhanced medical card regarding the redress scheme proposed for mother-and-baby home survivors will be issued; the services that it will cover; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47011/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Reviews (27 Sep 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department is conducting the following studies, reviews, and research projects. The table shows the costs, and person or body that is conducting each study, review, or research project. Where work is commissioned but a contract is not yet signed, entries for cost and tenderer are indicated as to be decided (TBD). Project Commissioned or Internal Scheduled...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Sep 2022)

Dr. Laura Bambrick: On how we can make a statutory right for flexible work, Ireland will be very unusual, when we get the Tánaiste's Bill on the right to request remote working, to have legislation that just looks at remote working as a stand-alone right. In the case of other countries throughout Europe, including Britain and Northern Ireland, that have rights to request flexible...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Act 2022 (Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam) Order 2022: Motion (21 Sep 2022) See 6 other results from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: I am grateful for the opportunity to bring this motion before the Seanad. The motion was taken and approved by the Dáil last week. This motion is before the House following approval by the Government on 27 July 2022 of my proposal to establish an independent office to lead an intervention at the site of the former mother and baby institution in Tuam. The proposal was made following...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: ...section 61 on the strategic development plan of higher education institutions, would have the effect of changing the wording from "students or the students' unions of the institution" to "students and the students' unions of the institution".We propose that it not be one or the other but both to ensure the fullest range of feedback to a governing body or chief executive on strategic...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 398. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has reached an agreement with the relevant religious orders on contributing towards redress for survivors of mother and baby homes. [45472/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Protection (20 Sep 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 robustly fulfills the vast majority of the Special Rapporteur's recommendations, specifically addressing recommendations 1- 14 inclusive.The Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 was signed into law by President Higgins on 30 June 2022. I commenced the first parts of the Act on 1 July with the establishment of the Contact Preference Register and the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Sep 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 400. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the dates on which he has met with the Collaborative Forum of Former Residents of Mother and Baby Homes and Related Institutions in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022. [45524/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Reports (20 Sep 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: My Department has 36 live studies, reviews and research projects underway. 25 of these (69%) involve the commissioning of external experts. For full details please see the table below: Project Commissioned or Internal Scheduled Completion A review of the current provision of Home Visiting Services for families with babies and young children in...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I was upstairs in my office for the first part of the meeting. I thank all the witnesses. Everyone is very passionate about this matter. It brought me back to the issue of the mother and baby homes. We worked with the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, on that. The Minister is very committed to supporting and working with everyone. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (15 Sep 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 261. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress that has been made under the commitments set out in An Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45223/22]

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Institutional Burials Act 2022 (Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam) Order 2022: Motion (14 Sep 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

Seán Sherlock: I support the motion. Like my colleagues, I will raise the issue of the promised independent review of testimony. We have Elaine Loughlin and Conall Ó Fátharta of the Irish Examinerto thank for the report in that newspaper dated 29 August in which it was said that "A promised independent review of testimony given by mother and baby home survivors has now been abandoned by the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (14 Sep 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Martin Kenny: Nearly a year has passed since the Government agreed the redress scheme for mother and baby home survivors, many of whom are elderly and getting on in life. I seek a reassurance from the Taoiseach that the legislation to progress this scheme will be published and that the scheme will be opened as a matter of urgency. As we know, many of the unfortunate survivors of these homes are at the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Sep 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will speak as quickly as I can. I wish to highlight the childcare pressures in my constituency. I know of a 41-year-old professional woman who has a four-and-a-half-month-old baby. If she gets a childcare place for her baby in order for her to return to work, it will cost her between €1,200 and €1,300 per month. She is a single mother who gets the one-parent family...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Commissions of Investigation (14 Sep 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Catherine Connolly: 56. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 152 of 10 May 2022, the status of the investigation into the leak of the report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation which was reported on in an article which appeared in a national newspaper on 10 January 2021; the details of any interim reports received to-date from the senior official in charge of the...

Seanad: Animal Welfare: Motion (14 Jul 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: I move: “That Seanad Éireann: recalls that: - Ireland has signed and ratified the European Convention for the Protection of Animals kept for Farming Purposes (‘the Convention’); - the European Union has been promoting animal welfare for over forty years, gradually improving the welfare standards in respect of animals kept for farming purposes; - the...