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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Offices (20 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputies for their questions. On IPAS and Mount Street, officials visited the tents on 16 March. Contrary to some reports, Crooksling has toilets, hot showers, personal toiletries, food, a bus service to Dublin and 24-hour security on site. Safetynet is providing health screening, which commenced on 18 March. There is a building where meals are served and men can charge...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will return to the redress scheme that opened today for those who experienced trauma in mother and baby homes and county homes. I acknowledge that redress comes in many forms. It is not all about financial recognition but trauma also comes in many forms and the largest design flaw in this scheme is the 160-day rule. It has been correctly described as a real insult to many victims. Some...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Leo Varadkar: The mother and baby homes institutions payment scheme opened for applications at 9 o'clock this morning. It has taken far too long but I am glad the scheme is now up and running. An extensive information and awareness campaign will take place both at home and abroad, and applicants will be supported throughout the application process with the information and advice they need. Where a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (20 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1121. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps his Department has taken to inform adoptees and mother and baby home survivors of any potential role for DNA technologies in tracing birth information, given the diverse levels of technological literacy across society; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11871/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (20 Mar 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 1148. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 110 of 14 December 2023, if the negotiation process between the expert negotiator and religious orders with regard to contributing to the mother and baby institutions redress scheme has been completed to date; if not, the expected timeline for the conclusion of the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (20 Mar 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: 1153. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is any provision to include survivors of mother and baby homes who contributed towards the Investigation Committee of the final Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation and who passed away before the Taoiseach's apology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12427/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Expenditure (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...3,745 3,838 3,866 5,516 23,911 Non Pay 740 499 1,134 -1,143 193 490 1,913 A3: Tusla Child and Family Agency 40,773 84,594 151,163 100,746 73,150 85,026 535,452 A4: Youth Justice-Children Detention Schools 3,037...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (20 Mar 2024)

Mark Ward: 1176. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when applications for the mother and baby institutions payment scheme are open, if an individual will be able to apply if they are residing abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12651/24]

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Erin McGreehan: ...is my first time speaking on the Bill. I welcome the Minister. I am covering for my colleague, Senator Clifford-Lee, who cannot be present. It is important to discuss the reason for the Bill and why the amendments should not be accepted. As Senator Clonan stated, when people are going into a facility for gynaecological or obstetrical care, others have no idea what is going on. I,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 313. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will expand the redress scheme to include all those who spent time in a mother and baby institution or county home; if he will consider making an enhanced medical card available to all survivors, extend the scheme to anyone abused in a 'boarding out'/adoptive placement or abused through forced labour,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (7 Mar 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 324. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether those who were in “mother and baby homes” will be automatically entitled to dental, chiropody, homecare services and counselling as part of the compensation package for survivors of the homes; if they are, how will the services be delivered and how can they be accessed; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (7 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 331. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans in his Department to launch a public awareness campaign of the mother and baby redress scheme opening; if there is to be a time limit on the application period given the urgency of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11454/24]

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (6 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...that by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved." Article 41.2.2° states, "The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home." That is the existing text that it is proposed to be deleted if there is...

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...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputies for their contributions to our statements on International Women's Day. This is the fourth time I have had the opportunity to deliver the speech on behalf of the Government and to listen to Deputies. During those four years there has been criticism that not enough has been done. There is always more for every government to do. There is more for this Government to do...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (5 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Peadar Tóibín: 555. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the mother and baby homes institutions payment scheme has not yet opened to survivors, despite the legislation pertaining to same having been passed by Dáil Éireann twelve months ago; if his Department has undertaken any research to determine how many survivors of mother and baby homes die...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (5 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Richard Boyd Barrett: 564. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the form of redress that is available to former residents of an orphanage (details supplied) given reports of abuse and its exclusion from the mother and baby homes redress scheme (details supplied); whether the confessional character of the orphanage has played a role in the State's attitude towards liability...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (29 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 92. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 526 of 23 January 2024, when the mother and baby institutions redress scheme will be open for applications; the timeline for when payments will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9501/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (29 Feb 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: 134. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he intends to include additional institutions in the schedule of the Birth Information and Tracing Act, 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9195/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (29 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 279. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of outstanding issues in respect of redress in the case of mother and baby homes; the extent to which he expects to address all such issues and to ensure equality in respect of redress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9909/24]