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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Ms Carmel McDonnell Byrne: I thank the committee for the invitation to come before it. I am a survivor of institutional abuse and I am one of the co-founders of the Christine Buckley Centre for Education and Support, formerly known as the Aislinn Centre. Over the past 27 years my life's work has been dedicated to advocating for, and providing support to, fellow survivors of institutional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

...I might come in there. As part of the Bill, it is important we are inclusive of all survivors of abuse, whether they be Magdelen ladies or other survivors of institutional abuse such as those in mother and baby homes. They were all institutions and they were not pleasant places. Furthermore, we have to be mindful not to exclude people who did not apply for redress. We discovered after...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Mairead Farrell: ...exactly would that look like? What does Ms McDonnell Byrne believe that would need to look like? The son of a woman who is in her mid-80s recently came into my local office. She was in hospital and had that health card. She had been in one of the mother and baby homes. He felt that she was let down in regard to healthcare. I would be interested to hear what that health card would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Mr. Patrick Rodgers: It is something we wrestle with all of the time. The Coventry Irish Society and the London Irish Centre manage to reach people. My experience is that there are people who are relatively confident at the moment, and who will make applications and come to us. We are looking at people who may have suffered severe trauma. They may have withdrawn from wider Irish society...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Mr. Patrick Rodgers: Fréa is a partnership between three leading Irish charities in the north of England. The Fréa mother and baby and county home institution programme aims to promote and facilitate access so as to ensure that former residents are aware of and can access the various strands of the Irish Government’s action plan. This includes the payment scheme and access...