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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 (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

...in the Department of Education with responsibility for a number of areas, including the State’s response to residential institutional abuse. I am joined by Mr. Brian Power, principal officer, and Mr. Hugh Geoghegan, assistant principal officer, both of whom are from the Department’s residential institutions redress unit. The Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Ms Aoife Conduit: We understand the point that is being made about impact of the payment on those living in the UK. Obviously, people do not want our State giving with one hand and another state taking away with the other. That is something we are aware of and something we have been engaging with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on, because the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Ms Aoife Conduit: No. As I said, it is arising in the case of the mother and baby homes, but I think contact has not yet been made. We intend to try to take a co-ordinated approach from the State to the authorities over there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Kehoe: ...talking about, I know Ms Conduit cannot answer today but it would be reassuring for everybody if a senior civil servant - an assistant secretary - was leading that from the Department of Education and from other Departments as well. That would reassure survivors that the Department of Education and other Departments are taking this very seriously. It was proposed by the Christine...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Ms Aoife Conduit: The enhanced medical card has already been provided to Magdalen survivors and is being provided to mother and baby homes survivors.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

...That is an existing service. It is run by the HSE. I do not know how it determines it but it was put in place initially for all people who had been resident in those State institutions, including mother and baby homes. I can clarify that and come back to the committee.