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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (8 Nov 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Alan Dillon: 755. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions that he plans to take to provide those who were subjected to racial discrimination and systemic racism in childcare institutions with effective remedies, through the mother and baby payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54411/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (8 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 756. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a person (details supplied) who was staying at a location qualifies for redress. [54460/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (8 Nov 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Following publication of the Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, An Taoiseach offered a formal apology on behalf of the Government, the State and its citizens to all those who spent time in these institutions. In this apology, An Taoiseach acknowledged the failings of the State, over many decades, to protect vulnerable citizens, and to uphold their...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Legal Cases (8 Nov 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: In December 2021, I agreed to settle eight judicial reviews in relation to the Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes. As part of that settlement I agreed to pay the applicants' costs. A request for payment has yet to be received. 

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (8 Nov 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022, and the guidelines that accompany it, are clear that in all cases where birth, early life, care and medical information, as defined in the legislation is available on a record it will be released. No redactions will ever take place in respect of this information.  In addition and more broadly, no redactions will ever take place of a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (8 Nov 2022)

Helen McEntee: I know that female offenders represent a particularly vulnerable group within the prison system and I can assure the Deputy that the Prison Service is acutely aware of the challenges that these vulnerable women face. The particular needs of women prisoners is reflected in how our modern prison facilities are developed.  The Dóchas Centre, which accommodates the majority of...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Referral to Select Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022) See 3 other results from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank all the Deputies for their contributions. In the time available to me, I will try to address some of their queries, many of which I know we will discuss on Committee and Report Stages. I would like to take the opportunity to set this Bill in the context of the Government's action plan and all that Government is doing in response to the needs of former residents and the legacy of...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022) See 9 other results from this debate

Ruairi Ó Murchú: We all know that this State has a very long history. We had a society that was built around not giving adequate powers or protections to women and, beyond that, actually oppressing them. I accept that a significant number of legacy issues have fallen into the Minister's in-tray. I assume that others did not want to deal with them. We are at the point of redress and we all accept and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Paul McAuliffe: I will come back in the second round on those other points. I want to touch on the area of birth information and tracing. Many people in this House accused Government Deputies of sealing the records of mother and baby homes. However, this year thousands of people will be applying for birth information. It is a really important step for those people that they can have access to that...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (27 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 252. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of the religious orders that he is engaged with concerning making payments to the redress scheme for the survivors of mother-and-baby homes, including the names of the orders and the number of meetings that he or his officials have had with these orders or their representatives. [54098/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Bruton: 134. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an external review of the investigation into mother-and-baby homes will be undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53667/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Jack Chambers: ...Report of the Committee of Selection (without debate) - Finance Bill 2022 (Second Stage) (to conclude within 3 hrs 40 mins) Private Members' Business shall be the Motion reAccessible, Affordable and Reliable Public Transport, selected by Sinn Féin. Wednesday’s business shall be: - Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022 (Second...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 518. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details from the records available to his Department of the number of persons who spend less than six months in mother and baby homes or county homes for the time period covered by the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022. [53582/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Oct 2022)

Mark Ward: 711. To ask the Minister for Health if the mother-and-baby inpatient peri-natal mental health unit will be in place in Q4 of 2024, as outlined in Sharing the Vision; if a site has been chosen; when it is expected to open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53563/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (25 Oct 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The National Maternity Strategy refers specifically to the importance of the bond between an infant and their parents, in particular its mother. The purpose of the Strategy is to ensure standard, consistent models for the delivery of a national maternity service, reflecting best available evidence, and ensuring that all pregnant women have appropriate and informed choice, and access to the...

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) (Certificate of Life) Bill 2022: Second Stage (20 Oct 2022) See 4 other results from this debate

Mary Seery Kearney: It is my great honour to second this Bill and commend it to the House. I am very grateful to hear from the Leader that the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, is supportive of the Bill. I thank the Minister of State for being here today. I thank the Leader for bringing this forward and for being so tenacious as a Minister and also as a Leader, and for inviting me to be part of it. To Stephen, I...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: DNA Database (20 Oct 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Marian Harkin: 285. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will reconsider his position to set up a database to hold DNA samples of family members of those who were resident at St. Mary's Mother and Baby home in Tuam. [52479/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (20 Oct 2022) See 3 other results from this answer

Eoin Ó Broin: 288. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Mother and Baby Institutions payment scheme will be extended to those who spent less than the prescribed time period of six months in an institution given that many persons have been excluded from the scheme on this basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52490/22]

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022) See 18 other results from this debate

Anne Rabbitte: There has been a huge and entirely appropriate outcry in recent years over the shameful way some of our most vulnerable citizens were treated. We have all been moved by this. As the realisation deepens regarding how unfairly some of our citizens were treated in the past, we more fully understand that the effects continue to ripple through to today. We witness the pain felt so deeply by...