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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2023)
Catherine Connolly: ...would not go amiss. The Government was forced every step of the way to do something. Catherine Corless, who has fought gallantly, raised this back in 2012. Survivors have come here repeatedly and educated us. We have gotten over 1,500 emails, at a conservative estimate, about the madness of progressing with this divisive and discriminatory scheme. How dare the Taoiseach take pride in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2023)
Catherine Connolly: ...ag an bpointe seo, ciall ceannaithe a bheith aige, an rud ceart a dhéanamh, agus an scéim lochtach seo a tharraingt siar. I am wearing a jacket that is ill-fitting. I wear it out of respect for a woman who spent time in a mother and baby home. I wear it to be in touch with her spirit. She was allergic to the doublespeak and hypocrisy that this Government and previous...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2023)
Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. The mother and baby institutions payments scheme is currently being debated by the Oireachtas. The scheme will include financial payments to an estimated 34,000 people and a form of enhanced medical card for almost 20,000 who were resident in mother and baby and county home institutions. This will come at a cost of approximately...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2023)
Leo Varadkar: .... A State apology was also made by the former Taoiseach, now the Tánaiste, Deputy Micheál Martin, in January 2021. That was significant too. As I mentioned earlier, one of the main requests and demands from people who were born in mother and baby institutions was that we change our laws so they can have access to their birth certificates-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: Today, the Government wants to pass through the Dáil legislation establishing the mother and baby homes redress scheme, this despite the fact the scheme shamefully excludes children who spent less than six months in a mother and baby institution or a county home. As a consequence, 24,000 survivors will be left behind by the Government’s proposed scheme. It is scandalous that...