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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...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

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)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Today I am bringing the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill before the House. The primary purpose of the Bill is to establish a scheme to make payments and to provide a form of enhanced medical card to eligible applicants. The scheme will recognise the time spent and the harsh conditions, emotional abuse and other forms of...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 252 and 253 together. The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes made significant findings in relation to the failings of the State and Religious Congregations, who together ran Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. The Government believes that all relevant parties have a shared moral and ethical obligation to support appropriate...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes operated entirely independently of Government. It conducted its investigations in accordance with Terms of Reference approved by the Houses of the Oireachtas and the legal framework provided by the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004. It is not open to Government to retrospectively seek to alter or interrogate its findings or...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: As part of the work undertaken by the Interdepartmental Group on the development of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme, it was estimated that approximately 19,500 mothers spent time in a Mother and Baby or County Home Institution, with just under 15,000 of these mothers spending less than six months there. In the case of people who spent time as institutions as children, it was...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: DNA Database (20 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Institutional Burials Act 2022, which came into effect on 15 July last, provides the underlying legislative basis for an intervention, whereby the remains of those who died and were buried in a manifestly inappropriate manner, may be recovered and re-interred in a respectful and appropriate way. It also provides for the identification of remains and their return to family members, where...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: ...answering this question, it is important to note that the Scheme is one element of a comprehensive package of support measures agreed by the Government to respond to the priority needs of survivors and former residents as part of the Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. Following intense deliberations on what are very complex...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: The Government does not wish to disregard or diminish any person’s experience and recognises that there are people who suffered stigma, trauma and abuse in other institutions and outside of institutions who will not qualify for the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme. The Commission found that the named Mother and Baby Homes were ‘unquestionably the main such homes...

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...the issues raised in this motion. Everyone here will agree that the State, together with the religious congregations, must acknowledge the indisputable wrongs that were visited on the women and children who spent time in mother and baby and county home institutions. As the Taoiseach said in his apology on behalf of the State in January of last year, they should not have been there and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (13 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am acutely aware of the sense of urgency surrounding the establishment of the mother and baby institutions payment scheme and I am focused on delivering that scheme as soon as possible. On Tuesday, I brought the Bill providing for the payment scheme to the Government and obtained approval for its publication and presentation to the Houses later this month. The scheme will provide...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (13 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Anyone who spent time in an institution for more than six months and was subsequently boarded out will be able to qualify under the scheme. A broad statement was made that boarded out people were being excluded, so it is important to clarify that anyone who was in an institution and was subsequently boarded out can fit within the remit of the scheme. On the suggestion that this will be...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (13 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Institutional Burials Act 2022 came into effect on 15 July last. It provides the underlying legislative basis for an intervention to recover and respectfully re-inter the remains of those who were buried in a manifestly inappropriate manner. It also provides for the identification of remains and their return to family members, where possible. The legislation requires that the excavation,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (13 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Since taking Office I have visited the site of the former Mother and Baby institution in Tuam and met with survivors and relatives of those who died while resident in the institution. I carefully considered the issues raised by them in the development of the Institutional Burials Act 2022. The Act, which was signed into law in July 2022, provides the underlying legislative basis for an...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (13 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: In terms of my Department's 2022 spending, I am currently seeking additional funding for my Department for 2022 principally to cover the additional costs arising in relation to the Ukraine response and due to the increased numbers of International Protection applicants arriving in the State. In this regard, I am bringing a supplementary estimate to the Dáil which has been agreed by the...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (12 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to address the House on Second Stage of the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022. The purpose of this Bill is to ensure Ireland fully transposes Articles 6 and 9 of the EU work-life balance directive, which are the final elements not already compatible with Irish law. The Bill also fulfils an important and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: To keep the record clear, I have met with seven religious congregations or lay organisations, and the leaders of the Church of Ireland, in seeking a meaningful and significant response from them on redress. Those negotiations are ongoing at present. There has been no conclusion in terms of those engagements. As the Deputy said, yesterday we brought forward the final redress Bill, which...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised) (12 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...secretaries, one of whom is here today, all the way to clerical officers in Citywest working to help people move around the country. Amazing work has been done by the officials in my Department, and, in addition, we have had people seconded in from other Departments and agencies. I appreciate the Deputy's recognition of the phenomenal work that is being undertaken. Regarding the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (11 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 529 and 530 together. The Government takes its responsibility to investigate and address historic wrongs and allegations of human rights abuses very seriously. Since 1999, Ireland has undertaken investigations into allegations of abuse in various institutional settings. These investigations have sought to establish the facts relating to the operation of the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (11 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: On 28 February 2021, with the dissolution of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, my Department became the data controller for all the personal data contained in the records and databases that transferred from the Commission. My Department is responsible for fulfilling data subject rights, including the right of access to personal data. I am very mindful of the...