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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (26 Sep 2023)

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 the Scheme as soon as possible. To that end, a significant milestone was achieved on 11 July with the enactment of the underpinning legislation - the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023. This Act allows for the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (26 Sep 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is not possible to to provide an update in respect of a person's potential eligibility for the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme in advance of the Scheme being open for applications. Opening the Scheme as soon as possible is a priority for me and my Department. I would encourage any person who thinks they may be eligible for the Scheme to make an application when the Scheme is...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (20 Sep 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme is designed to provide payments and other benefits to people who spent time in one or more of the Mother and Baby or County Home Institutions, that were identified by the Commission of Investigation as having a main function of providing sheltered and supervised ante and post-natal facilities to single mothers and their children. The...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (20 Sep 2023)

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 the Scheme as soon as possible. To that end, a significant milestone was achieved on 11 July with the enactment of the underpinning legislation - the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023. This Act allows for the...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...this scheme. The changes that are being introduced will not reduce the number who may be able to apply under that original policy intent. If there are no records for a person's residence in a mother and baby home or county home institution, we have a provision built into the Bill, early in the process, that such persons can swear affidavit regarding their time in a particular...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: We have debated the institutional payments Bill extensively in both the Dáil and Seanad. It has undergone at least 30 hours of debate across both Houses. It is important that we get this legislation passed prior to the end of the term in order that we can enact this legislation and put in place the mechanisms so that survivors can make applications and draw down the payments and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (29 Jun 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Question: To ask the Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth the main policy achievements of his Department since 27 June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. Answer: Since my appointment as Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, the remit of the Department has been broadened with the inclusion of a number of very...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (28 Jun 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I will speak to the amendments put forward by Senator Flynn and also to some Government amendments. This grouping relates to the legal waiver for the scheme. As outlined in previous debate and in a written response provided to the Senators on the matter, the scheme will include a legal waiver. I have received consistent advice that this is acceptable for this scheme, similar to other ex...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (28 Jun 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: As outlined on Committee Stage, the purpose of this Bill is to provide for the establishment of the payments scheme, the making of payments and the provision of health benefits under the scheme. What is being proposed in this amendment is extremely challenging. Some of the requirements coming in from this amendment might not be legally possible, in particular the creation of statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (27 Jun 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Through the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 I specifically legislated for the safeguarding of important "relevant records" in relation to a person who was subject to adoption, boarded out or nursed out arrangements, illegal birth registrations, or who was born in a Mother and Baby or County Home Institution. The Act also places an obligation on any person in possession of a...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Jun 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank Senator Ruane for tabling the amendment. I will respond to Senator Hoey. She said people are not included. Anyone who is mixed race and was in mother and baby or county home institution is included in this scheme. Anyone who underwent non-consensual vaccine trials and was in a mother and baby home or a county home is included in the scheme. They get a general payment. There is...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Jun 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...point. Unfortunately, I am not in a position to accept the amendments, which propose reports after 12 months to determine the potential to make additional payments to specific groups of survivors and to cause a review of the scheme following any decision, opinion or recommendation of international human rights bodies. In addition in response to Senator Hoey's point, as I outlined during...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Jun 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I accept the point the Senator is making in terms of forced family separation and I accept what she is saying about choice. We have spoken to people where an adoption was a decision and we have also spoken to people where an adoption was not a decision. I accept the Senator's point in this regard, therefore, and I thank her for providing clarity. Ultimately, this legislation seeks to bring...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank Senator Boyhan for his amendment and detailed contribution. I also thank the other Senators for their contributions. This Bill already provides for a review of the operation of the scheme, with an overall review under section 49 and an annual review under section 12. I am not in a position to accept these two amendments; however, I will bring forward my own amendments, related to...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Acting Chair. I signalled on Committee Stage that my officials were examining a complex issue in consultation with the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel and the Office of the Attorney General, with regard to the county home institutions included in this scheme, and that I intended to bring amendments to the Bill on Report Stage to address this issue. This is an issue that came...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Senators for their contributions. I will try to address the key issues. Turning to the contribution made by Senator Ruane, I take the point regarding new information and the desire for information of this kind to be accurate. I fully accept what she is saying in this regard. Since the information has come to light about the complexity of the arrangements, especially at many of...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Regarding the Senator's initial point about timelines, we know from the history that this institutional relationship was often complex. There will be times when there will have to be some back and forth between an applicant and a chief deciding officer. We have designed the scheme to make it as simple as possible. In the significant majority of cases the scheme will deliver that simplicity...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: We are trying to separate out the women who gave birth in maternity facilities and were there solely for the purpose of the use of those maternity facilities. There were other women who gave birth in maternity facilities who were there because they had been admitted into a county home. We are saying that women in the latter category are entitled to be eligible under the scheme. The scheme...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ..., there is no gagging order attached to this waiver. However, I take the Senator's point. County homes were added to the commission's remit even though the vast majority closed much earlier than mother and baby homes. In many ways they were seen as a successor to county homes. The reason county homes were in the original investigation, and payments sought is because of the particularly...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...of what this scheme does.The Government has never claimed that this scheme provides an answer to every single instance of the mistreatment of pregnant women in our country. It is designed around mother and baby and county home institutions. On Senator Ruane's point, I do not agree that because a county home was on a site, and somebody obtained maternity services in a maternity unit or...