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Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2014) See 4 other results from this debate

Gerry Adams: ...xe1;in a bhunú. Is cúis áiféala é gur tharla na rudaí seo sa chéad áit, ach is maith an rud é go bhfuil an cinneadh seo tógtha. I, too, welcome that the Government is to establish a commission of inquiry into mother and baby homes across this State. In the past week or so there have been horrific revelations in this regard, including...

Seanad: Sitting Arrangements: Motion (22 Oct 2020)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 2: That the Schedule be amended as follows: “(i) That Report and Final Stages of the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020, be taken immediately after the Motion regarding Parliamentary Precincts and Privilege; (ii) That the Motion for Earlier Signature of the Commission of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

James Reilly: In developing the Terms of Reference for the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters, due regard has been given to the clear emphasis on “Mother and Baby Homes” in the motion approved by Dáil Eireann on the 11th June 2014. The investigation will thoroughly examine a broad range of matters in relation to the experience of mothers...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 Apr 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Whilst I cannot comment on individual cases I will try to be helpful in more general terms. The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme is designed to provide payments and other benefits to people who spent time in one or more of the Mother and Baby or County Home Institutions, that were identified by the Commission of Investigation as having a main function of providing sheltered...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to return to the issue of the mother and baby homes. I understand that the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, brought a memo to Cabinet today. As has been articulated, the wrongs of these mother and baby homes are accepted by everyone in this House. I believe we all recognise that many of the victims and survivors are elderly and in ill health. In 2016, the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions contains 22 commitments to survivors, intended to address the expressed priorities of those who spent time in Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions, as well as respond to the findings and recommendations of the Commission of Investigation. Of these 22 commitments, 9 are completed and a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (7 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions contains 22 commitments to survivors, intended to address the expressed priorities of those who spent time in Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions, as well as respond to the findings and recommendations of the Commission of Investigation. Of these 22 commitments, 9 are completed and a...

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Catherine Martin for tabling this very important motion. It is a very important aspect of child rearing from the point of view of women, their families and their extended families in dealing with premature births. The motion proposes the a change in the current status of maternity leave for mothers of premature babies; maternity leave will begin when the baby is delivered,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Sep 2018)

Katherine Zappone: The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters is an independent statutory investigation. I am not therefore in a position to provide detailed progress updates on this work. Any available updates would be posted by the Commission directly to its website. The Commission's terms of reference, attached as a schedule to Statutory Instrument No. 57 of 2015,...

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 and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Jun 2014) See 4 other results from this answer

Dominic Hannigan: 609. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to increase the number of files that can be made available to mothers whose children were in mother and baby homes; his plans to increase the number of files about the mothers, fathers and families of adults who were in mother and baby homes; if any discussions have taken place with the Health Service Executive any religious...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: In that case I will come back to the co-located sites. We have the mother and baby home aspect. We are saying that the legislation only recognises the mother and baby home aspect. It is based on a person's residency records and not in relation to the hospital that is on that site. Again I go back to the fact that what a person experienced on the hospital site does not have anything to do...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Feb 2021)

Micheál Martin: The Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was considered by Government and published on 12 January. On 13 January, I issued a formal apology in the Dáil on behalf of the State for the hurt experienced by many former residents of Mother and Baby Institutions and County Homes. I apologised for the profound generational wrong visited upon Irish mothers...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Legislative Programme (3 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 966. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the timeline for the introduction of legislation to ensure the survivors of mother and baby homes have access to the archive of the Commission on Mother and Baby Homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33120/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (9 Jun 2015) See 1 other result from this answer

Clare Daly: 631. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the Health Service Executive report written in 2012, into Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, was not used as part of the scoping exercise of the Commission of Investigation into mother and baby homes. [22452/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (27 Jan 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: I believe the mother and baby homes are largely treated as forensic sites. Mr. MacDonagh might respond to the Senator's question. I know there are very sensitive issues relating to those religious sites. The treatment of the mother and baby homes is quite contentious and involves a wider debate.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (23 May 2023)

Kathleen Funchion: 710. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total estimated cost of including all 24,000 mother and baby homes survivors currently excluded from the mother and baby homes payment scheme. [24954/23]

Written Answers — Mother and Baby Homes: Mother and Baby Homes (12 Oct 2011) See 1 other result from this answer

Dominic Hannigan: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to investigate the activities of mother and baby homes that operated here; if there is a register of all the mother and baby homes that operated here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29127/11]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (7 Dec 2017)

Katherine Zappone: I have no plans to conduct an archaeological survey at the site of the former mother and baby home at St Patrick's on the Navan Road, Dublin. As the Deputy may be aware, St Patrick's Mother and Baby Home is one of the institutions currently being investigated by the statutory Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters. As part of its terms of reference...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (8 Jul 2015)

James Reilly: The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters was formally established by Government Order on the 17th February 2015. In accordance with its comprehensive Terms of Reference, the Commission is tasked with thoroughly examining the experience of mothers and children resident in Mother and Baby Homes and a representative sample of County Homes. The...