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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: The collaborative forum of survivors from the mother and baby homes was established by the then Minister, Katherine Zappone, in July 2018, primarily to act as a consultation and engagement group for the mother and baby home issue. Recent weeks have been very difficult for the group. It was not consulted at all during the preparation of the mother and baby home legislation. It has written...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (16 May 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 164. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the recent sale of a former mother and baby home (details supplied); and the action she will take to exclude potential burial sites from the sale following the recent finding of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes that an organisation failed to provide evidence that infants were...

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Mick Barry: In 2011 the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus discontinued its adoption service and gave the registers from its mother and baby home at Bessborough in Cork to the HSE. In 2012 senior HSE personnel who were concerned at what was contained therein sent a report to the Department of Health and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs on the number of deaths that had occurred at...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Apr 2021)

Thomas Pringle: An oral hearing is under way on the planning application at the mother and baby home at Bessborough and the identification of graves. There are mother and baby homes across the country in every local authority area. Will the Government ask the local authorities to ensure they are protected under the county development plans so that potential burial sites can be identified and that future...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

...: I thank the committee again for the opportunity to be here. We believe that the principles of transitional justice really must inform all of the activities of the Oireachtas in dealing with the mother and baby homes and the various pieces of legislation. While understanding that this is broader than the survivors of the mother and baby homes, legislators must understand that it is so...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Midwifery Services (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 612, 720 and 736 together. This matter is sub-judice and I am therefore restricted in the response I can give to your questions. I understand from the HSE that Ms Cannings' indemnity has been suspended temporarily due to specific and serious concerns expressed by other clinical staff about patient safety. Indemnity is not removed from a professional...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Feb 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Roderic O'Gorman: On 28 February 2021, with the dissolution of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, my Department became the data controller for all the personal data contained in the records and databases that transferred from the Commission. My Department is responsible for fulfilling data subject rights, including the right of access to personal data. I am very mindful of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Apology (29 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...Questions Nos. 10 to 13, inclusive, together. Since taking office, I have issued one 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 and their children who ended up in a mother and baby home or county...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (7 Dec 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme will provide financial payments and a form of enhanced medical card for people who spent time as mothers or children in Mother and Baby or County Home Institutions. The institutions covered by the Scheme are those identified by the Commission of Investigation as having a main function of providing sheltered and supervised ante and post-natal...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 621. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will outline, in the aftermath of the mother and baby homes legislation, the information that will be handed to Tusla; the information that will be kept by his Department; the records that will be sealed for 30 years; the personal information that will be available to persons who were in mother and baby homes; and if he will make a...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021) See 2 other results from this debate

Dessie Ellis: This has been a very challenging and difficult time for the survivors of mother and baby homes. The publication of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation report has brought to light the hidden shame of a nation. Unfortunately, the report has failed to fully address or sufficiently acknowledge the wrongs done to these survivors. The report has made some findings that are...

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2011) See 1 other result from this debate

Susan O'Keeffe: Further to Senator Jillian van Turnhout's comments on the Referendum Commission and the lateness of the campaign on the forthcoming referendums, I express my concern about the advertisement which sets out a long explanation for the referendums followed by something about two ice creams with syrup on one and sprinkles on the other. While I have a sense of humour, this is not in order in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 Jul 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 15 to 17, inclusive, together. Prior to the consideration by the Government of the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, certain information with regard to matters in the report was disclosed in a newspaper report. In that context, I requested that an investigation be carried out. This investigation is being done in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (14 Jan 2015) See 3 other results from this answer

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 486 and 500 together. I announced the proposed Terms of Reference for the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters last week. Relevant details are available on my Department’s website. In developing the Terms of Reference due regard has been given to the emphasis on “Mother and Baby Homes” in the...

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Mark Ward: As the Minister knows, I am on the Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth with Deputy Cairns. I thank her for tabling this important motion. The mother and baby homes are a dark stain on the history of the State. I am on the committee that was tasked with the pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill. Listening to the testimonies at the committee of those who...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Gabhaim buíochas don Taoiseach as ucht a chuid freagraí. The Taoiseach recently visited the site of the former mother and baby home in Tuam where hundreds of babies are buried. As the Taoiseach knows, the survivors of the home and the families of those who resided or died there have expressed disappointment that he did not meet with them during his visit. I wrote to him in August...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 (24 May 2022)

Dr. Sara O'Byrne: I thank the Chairman and members for the opportunity to meet with them today. I am a clinical psychologist working with young people who have experienced trauma and adversity, within a specialist setting. I welcome the opportunity to disseminate information in respect of research and best practice and to have this knowledge, in turn, shape and influence thinking in...

Death and Burial of Children in Mother and Baby Homes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Jun 2014) See 16 other results from this debate

Anne Ferris: I very much welcome the establishment of a commission of investigation. I agree with the concept of the two-step approach proposed by the Minister. Putting time and thought into the creation of broad terms of reference for the inquiry represents an essential preliminary step. It is not possible for the inquiry to examine mother and baby homes in isolation. These institutions were but...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (13 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 548 and 549 together. The Residential Institutions Redress Scheme was a scheme operated by the Department of Education and I cannot comment on that scheme or its scope. My department is responsible for delivery of the comprehensive package of support measures agreed by the Government as part of the Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (7 Feb 2018)

Katherine Zappone: As the Deputy will be aware, Bessboro 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 the Commission is directed to investigate and to make a report on burial arrangements in respect of persons who died while resident in these...