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Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister for giving some clarification on that. I note that they have had success in Northern Ireland in encouraging people to come forward. Unfortunately that is not our experience in Ireland. It is not the experience of Dr. Mark Coen and what he found on the grounds of the laundry in Dublin. I know from the McAleese report that the Magdalen laundry in Galway distinguished...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “PART 1 PRELIMINARY AND GENERALShort title, collective citations, construction and commencement 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Health Insurance (Amendment) and Health (Provision of Menopause Products) Act 2024. (2) The Health Acts 1947 to 2022 and Part 2 (other than section 5) may be cited...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Instruction to Committee (23 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ...health, but the shroud of shame that reinforced that culture is certainly beginning to lift. The Minister should be commended on the particular interest he has in the area of women's health and the progress that has been made to date. Although there are many more important actions that still need to be taken, which I will return to later, it is important to acknowledge the initiative he...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (23 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...preservation of defined categories of records held by private actors, so that they are preserved in the public interest.   The private actors would include anyone who holds records relating to Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions, Magdalen laundries, industrial schools and reformatories, and orphanages, as well as the bodies who ran or oversaw these institutions. It also...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (23 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...preservation of defined categories of records held by private actors, so that they are preserved in the public interest.  The private actors would include anyone who holds records relating to Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions, Magdalen laundries, industrial schools and reformatories, and orphanages, as well as the bodies who ran or oversaw these institutions. It also...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (22 Oct 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Claire Kerrane: I welcome the engagement by the Minister, and I know he engaged with Senators, particularly regarding the NDAs and the amendments that will brought forward accordingly. I welcome that. That engagement was important. The second change that is being brought in, related to the private records and ensuring that they are protected, preserved and that no harm comes to them, is obviously an...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I will speak to the two amendments together. Regarding extending parents' leave and benefit, the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has lead responsibility for parents' leave policy. I have responsibility for making the payments. Parents' leave and benefit are available to eligible parents within the first two years following the birth or adoption of a...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Oct 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: The collaborative forum of former residents of mother and baby homes and related institutions asked for this, the Clann report asked for this, the Department of Education pre-consultation report asked for this and so on. The OAK report, the Minister will remember, was a consultative report that was done. It was very good. It took on board people's views. The OAK report, prior to the...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy for tabling this amendment. Regarding extending parent’s leave and benefit, the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has responsibility for parent’s leave policy and I have responsibility for the associated benefit payment. Parent’s leave and benefit are available to eligible parents within the first two years following...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary)
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Chair for facilitating our meeting today. I thank the committee for making time to consider this Supplementary Estimate for the children, equality, disability, integration and youth Vote group. We need a Supplementary Estimate at this point principally due to the expectation that the Vote will breach its total allocation before the end of November 2024. The Supplementary...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes (16 Oct 2024)

Mother and Baby Homes

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (15 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Michael Healy-Rae - To discuss reform in the payment of coroner's fees across the country. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - To discuss funding of the National Ambulance Service to provide services on offshore islands. Deputy...

Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Danny Healy-Rae: ...taking place around this political row that is going on. I do not think it is right. It does not sit right for me. The timing of this does not appear to be right. No one of us here would stand for the abuse or neglect of children. They are the most vulnerable in our society and we must seek to protect them at all times. I also have questions about Tusla. I also have questions for...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (15 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: From the limited information provided in this question it is, unfortunately, impossible for me to assist at this point. My department operates the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme but institution referenced - Convent of Mercy - is not a named institution in that scheme. At this juncture, I am not sure to what redress scheme the Deputy refers. My officials will be happy to assist if...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Advertising (15 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: For the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, the frequency and duration of the publicity, marketing or advertising campaigns conducted to date in 2024, as well as the purpose and cost of these campaigns; the cost of these campaigns; and the agencies that conducted these campaigns, is listed below. The costs for the UNCRC campaign is an informed estimate until...

Seanad: Maternity Protection Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Róisín Garvey: ...I am very pleased to be speaking about this important Bill in the Seanad. I thank my party colleague, the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, for bringing forward this important legislation, which will allow for mothers who have had a difficult diagnosis of a serious illness to pause their maternity leave and introduce long overdue maternity leave for Members of the Oireachtas. Maternity leave...

Seanad: Maternity Protection Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “Surrogacy Parent Leave 3. (1) For the purposes of this section, a nominated employed parent is a parent who has been an Intended Parent within the meaning of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 and who has been a successful applicant for a parental order in respect of a child born...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Undefined (8 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: While I try to be helpful at all times in the parliamentary process, the Deputy will be aware that I cannot be involved in individual cases and cannot comment on same. The legislation underpinning the Payment Scheme - the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023 - specifically provides for the explicit independence of the Chief Deciding Officer in administering the application...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (8 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 430. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to introduce legislation to criminalise the destruction, alteration or failure to preserve institutional records by those who possess them, including those who were involved in the maintenance of mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries; to provide for further and better provision in respect of...