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Adoption (Information) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Sep 2021)

Holly Cairns: This is incredibly important legislation for adopted people. It provides them with unconditional access to their birth certificates, a right which has been denied to them by successive Governments and civil servants for decades. I thank Deputies Connolly and Pringle and their teams for putting forward this legislation and prioritising it. Birth registrations have been public records in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (27 Jul 2021)

Holly Cairns: 1218. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on and response to the mother and baby homes commission of investigation report draft alternative executive summary document. [40178/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (6 Jul 2021)

Holly Cairns: 47. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to ensure that the experiences of the 550 persons who gave evidence before the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters confidential committee are recognised and officially reflected. [36297/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (6 Jul 2021)

Holly Cairns: What steps is the Minister taking to ensure that the experiences of the 550 people who appeared before the confidential committee of the Commission of Investigation on Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related matters are officially reflected? The Minister has committed to formally recognising these testimonies. The lived experiences of 550 survivors were not reflected in the final report...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (30 Jun 2021)

Holly Cairns: 110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 372 of 27 January 2021, if the Holy See has provided a response to the final report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35193/21]

National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jun 2021)

Holly Cairns: The story of maternal healthcare in Ireland is the story of how we have treated women in this country. It is far from a happy story; it is a lot closer to a horror story. Irish maternal healthcare was a place where misogyny reigned, where women were defined solely in terms of their reproductive functions and where they were denied control of themselves, their bodies and their lives. In the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jun 2021)

Holly Cairns: Does the Government stand over the report of the Commission of Investigation into the Mother and Baby Homes report, as it claims it does in the High Court, or does it believe there are such fundamental problems with it that it is now necessary to authorise a separate review of the report, as the Minister has now said? The Chief State Solicitor's office submitted statements opposing judicial...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (16 Jun 2021)

Holly Cairns: 187. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the redress scheme for the survivors of mother and baby homes and related institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32478/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Jun 2021)

Holly Cairns: It is hard for many to understand why one of the mother and baby home commissioners participated in an Oxford University seminar yesterday to discuss the commission's report but would not come before the Oireachtas committee. I welcome and totally agree with what the Tánaiste said that there is no excuse for this. I have written to the committee requesting that it invite them in again....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...so far as to specify that if someone dies in State care or custody, the coroner is obliged to act. Second, there is a lack of information on the causes of death. The abnormally high death rate in mother and baby institutions clearly demonstrates a high likelihood of negligence. There is also a lack of information on location of burials. All of these highlight the absolute necessity of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of a Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: I thank the witnesses for coming in today. My question is for Mr. Parfrey. He highlighted that the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters report states it is not known where the vast majority of children who died in Bessborough are. We know that 859 of these children are unaccounted for. Would Mr. Parfrey be in favour of the Minister for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of a Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: I have the two questions, the first of which is for Dr. McCullagh. She mentioned the absence of recommendations and approaches relating to unidentified remains. Does she have any recommendations in terms of the best approach to that? In respect of this Bill and all matters relating to mother and baby homes, it is important to zoom out and remember the gravity of it and that the...

Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Mar 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...Sunday night, in Cahir, County Tipperary, a women's history group put up 24 temporary plaques to celebrate the forgotten women of the town. They dedicated one plaque to the banished women of Cahir and placed it at the spot on the square where women and girls were picked up to be sent to mother and baby homes. It reads: Banished Women We waited here to be taken to Mother and Baby...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Mar 2021)

Holly Cairns: 308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the mechanisms in place to support the housing needs of survivors of mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11580/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Feb 2021)

Holly Cairns: It is essential to extend the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes so people can seek a judicial review, if required. That is a legal entitlement. It would allow the Director of Public Prosecutions to continue its investigation. If any testimonies are not recovered, survivors can seek a remedy under the general data protection regulation, GDPR, as required by EU law. ...

Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2021)

Holly Cairns: It was a different time. That is what we say in this country when we do not have the words to describe why so many people suffered and we do not have the answers as to how and why it happened. It was a different time. It is not easy to find the words to describe how we, as a country, treated our most vulnerable. It is difficult, painful and uncomfortable, but it is essential. We must...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Feb 2021)

Holly Cairns: 547. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Data Protection Commissioner has written to the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes over the destruction of recordings of witness testimony; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6907/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Feb 2021)

Holly Cairns: 548. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on extending the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes to ensure the full recovery of all evidence received by and all documents created by, or for, the commission, including all recoverable recordings of witness testimony; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6910/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (10 Feb 2021)

Holly Cairns: 688. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the dialogue there has there been with the coroner whose jurisdiction includes Bessborough, Cork with respect to the holding of inquests for the deaths associated with the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home as provided for under the Coroners Act 1962; if there have been requests for inquests; if so, the number; the way in which...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2021)

Holly Cairns: Under the Coroners Act, it is the duty of a coroner to hold an inquest when a body is found in his or her district and when a person dies in State custody or detention. Given that the mother and baby homes commission has reported on mass disappeared infants' and children's remains in unmarked graves, there is a legal obligation for inquests to be carried out for each deceased individual. We...