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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Birth Certificates (21 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Birth Information and Tracing Act provides a clear and guaranteed right of access to birth, early life, care, and medical information for persons who were adopted, boarded out or nursed out, subject to an illegal birth registration or resided in a mother and baby home or county home institution as a child (known as a relevant person). It also provides a a right of access to this...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: National Archives (21 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Departments of State, including their disposal or retention as archives. Documents in the archive of the McAleese Commission that are currently held by my Department constitute departmental records and, as such, are subject to the requirements of that legislation. Departments are obliged to transfer Departmental records more than 30 years old to National Archives. This obligation will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (21 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 928 and 929 together. The Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 provides a clear and guaranteed right of access to birth, early life, care, and medical information to all persons who were adopted, boarded out or nursed out, subject to an illegal birth registration, or resided as a child in a mother and baby or county home institution. Where this information...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank Deputies for their statements. There were many detailed and specific contributions. I take the opportunity to respond to Deputy Harkin's point as I was not in the Dáil earlier. The preservation of records about Ireland's institutional past is essential. A significant step in that preservation has already been taken with the Birth Information and Tracing Act we passed last...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Projects (1 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 132 and 133 together. In March 2022, the Government approved high-level proposals for a National Centre for Research and Remembrance to be located on the site of the former Magdalen Laundry on Sean McDermott Street in Dublin 1. The Centre will stand as a site of conscience, and will be a national memorial to honour equally all those who were resident...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Mother and Baby Homes (28 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank Senator Boyhan for giving me an opportunity to speak about the Institutional Burials Act and the preparations under way for an intervention under the legislation at the site of the former mother and baby institution in Tuam, County Galway. The Institutional Burials Act 2022, which came into operation on 15 July 2022, provides the underlying legislative basis for an intervention...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is important in a situation where someone initially makes an application and decides not to take it any further that there is a process for them to inform the chief deciding officer that they are not taking it any further. It is necessary in a scheme of this scale that the chief deciding officer is able to make a determination after a period of time that the application is no longer live....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (21 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme is designed to provide financial payments and a form of enhanced medical card to people who spent time in a Mother and Baby or County Home Institution. The Government recognises that there are people who suffered stigma, trauma and abuse in other institutions, and outside of institutions, who will not qualify for this Scheme. The decision...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (14 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme, which will open later this year, will provide financial payments and an enhanced medical card to defined groups in acknowledgement of suffering experienced while resident in Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. As this scheme has not yet opened, no details can be provided regarding costs or number of claims.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Registration of Births (9 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...was that a State inquiry into illegal adoptions (broadly defined) should be established on a non-statutory basis. The question of creating an effective non-statutory inquiry is a sensitive, complex and challenging one. The Special Rapporteur acknowledges this and, in particular, notes the challenges associated with access to records for a non-statutory inquiry. In this regard, it is also...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (9 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Revised Estimates for Public Services 2023, published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, detail gross expenditure of almost €3.3 billion in respect of my Department for 2023. These Estimates have just been approved by Select Committee and will be voted on in the Dáil shortly. This allocation represents an increase of €463m (16%) over the 2022...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I welcome the opportunity to discuss the Revised Estimates for my Department for 2023, including that of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. As members will have seen from the briefing material provided last week, my Department is projected to spend €3.173 billion on current expenditure and €103 million on capital expenditure during 2023. This represents an...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Adoption Authority of Ireland and Tusla have been provided with additional resources to increase the levels of staff and increase their systems, particularly IT, to be able to undertake their work under the birth information and tracing legislation. They are provided for under these specific heads. They are not coming from the mother and baby institution heads that we have already...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (8 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 is not applicable in this circumstance, and standard data protection law applies. The Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 enables a person who was adopted, nursed out or boarded out, subject to an illegal birth registration, or who resided in a mother and baby home or county home institution as a child, or their Next of Kin to apply for their...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am not in a position to accept the amendment. We had some discussion of this on Committee Stage. The Bill provides for the establishment of the office of the chief deciding officer of the mother and baby institution payment scheme within my Department. That office will be overseen by a chief deciding officer who will perform the functions set out under section 9 of the Bill. In...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (1 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Section 32 of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill provides that the personal representative of a deceased relevant person, who died on or after 13 January 2021, can apply to the Scheme. The personal representative will be acting on behalf of the deceased person's estate and any award from the Scheme arising from that application will be made for the benefit of the deceased...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Commissions of Inquiry (18 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...that a State inqu iry into illegal adoptions (broadly defined) should be established on a non-statutory basis. The question of creating an effective non-statutory inquiry is a sensitive, complex and challenging one. The Special Rapporteur acknowledges this and, in particular, notes the challenges associated with access to records for a non-statutory inquiry. In this regard, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (18 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I recognise the importance of delivering the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme for survivors. The legislation for the Scheme was published in October 2022 and passed Committee Stage in Dáil on 15th November 2022. I hope to bring the Bill to Report Stage in the Dáil in the coming weeks. The operational elements, which includes the establishment of an Executive Office to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Process (18 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 976 and 985 together. I recognise the importance of delivering the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme for survivors. The legislation for the Scheme was published in October 2022 and passed Committee Stage in Dáil on 15th November 2022. I hope to bring the Bill to Report Stage in the Dáil in the coming weeks. The operational...