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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: This is a very different Department from the one that was envisaged. I know there were additional functions and much has happened in relation, for example, to children, childcare and the mother and baby home legislation. It is not just one thing; there is a multiplicity of things. On mother and baby homes and the delay in files, is that a delay at the Tusla level or is that a Department...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...than they were straight after the general election. There has been much more activity in childcare, for example, for which I am thankful. The Department has had a very busy time with the mother and baby homes and then there has been the transfer of the international protection aspect from the Department of Justice. We need to get an overview of Mr. McCarthy's staffing and how that...

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

Catherine Murphy: ...it is their truth. The second is holding those responsible to account. The third is financial compensation; not that financial compensation can redress some of the things that happened to people and how it traumatised their lives. Survivors were asked to put their trust in the State to relive the most traumatic moments in their lives in the belief that their lived experiences would...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Feb 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 569. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the dialogue there has there been with the coroner whose jurisdiction includes Tuam, County Galway, with respect to the holding of inquests for those bodies found at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home as provided for under the Coroners Act 1962; if there have been requests for inquests; if so, the number; the way in which they...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...that is difficult to do when people actually give us permission to name them. There is a balance to be struck. Caranua is winding down. It appeared before us after the formal close-off date and is not receiving new applications. The fund was finite to begin with, but anything remaining was to go to, I believe, the children's hospital. It is not likely that there will be funds...

Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (27 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: This Bill, as has been stated by the Minister of State and the Government, is largely technical in nature, protecting the EU's financial interests and creating offences around fraud affecting the financial interest of the EU. We are generally supportive of it. It is welcome to see legislation that will tackle this issue, given that estimates of the volume of fraud against the EU budget...

Child Homelessness: Statements (28 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister informed us earlier that the figures for this month show an increase of 12 in the number of families that are homeless. A total of 57 adults and, heartbreakingly, 137 children have become homeless since the previous set of figures. The Minister told us not to panic and that the figures do not paint the whole picture. He set out other provisos to try to convince us that things...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (1 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the efforts that will be made to include those persons who were detained in the Magdalen laundries or mother and baby homes and who are dissatisfied with the redress scheme; if the proposed meeting will be confined to those who contacted the Ombudsman; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18600/18]

Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Catherine Murphy: The front page of today's edition of the Irish Examinerdetails the most recent comments of the tireless campaigner, Catherine Corless, on the discarded remains at the Tuam mother and baby home. Ms Corless, who has spent years doing work at her own expense that really should have been done by the State now finds her work hamstrung by the State, yet again, and this time she says money seems to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Mr. Thompson for his presentation. I would like to acknowledge the fact that the legal and health care systems in the UK cater for a significant number of Irish women, and has done so for decades. Given our experience with mother and baby homes and Magdalen laundries, we are not in a position to be shouting from the rooftop in terms of how women have been treated in this country. ...

National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (19 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Decisions we make today can have implications for how our history will be told into the future. How that will manifest itself is unpredictable. Many records are now held digitally and have been for the past 20 years or so. As the formats in which records are held sometimes become obsolete, we are faced with many additional challenges that we have to overcome. I will reiterate some of...

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (1 Jun 2017)

Catherine Murphy: On the previous occasion we debated this mother and baby home it was with a specific focus on what one can describe as nothing more than the atrocities that had occurred in Tuam. At the time, the Taoiseach spoke about the culpability of the State and society, but I reiterate what I said that day that the State is not some anonymous set of officials. The reality is that in those mother and...

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It is no small thing to deliver a baby. While that statement may seem obvious, the enormity of childbirth creates a degree of trauma, which is sometimes lost on people. It is fine when everything goes well but an unexpected development, for example, a premature birth with considerable medical intervention, adds significantly to this trauma. I should correct two statements made by...

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: ...reading of newspaper reports based on the research done by Catherine Corless at the time, I called for the site at Tuam to be immediately declared a crime scene. I called for the site to be sealed and for forensic anthropologists and anything else needed to be made available in order to uncover this atrocity, and make no mistake it was and is an atrocity, a mass grave of 796 tiny bodies...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (28 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 824. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons that have given evidence to the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes confidential committee; the number of persons that have given evidence to the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes investigation committee; the number of persons that have been refused an opportunity to give...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 440. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the publication of the second interim report of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes has been delayed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9105/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 441. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes has requested that the scope of its terms of reference be broadened in its second interim report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9106/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 442. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she is taking regarding the financial implications that will arise from the second interim report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9107/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (21 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 653. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will publish the September 2016 interim report from the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8785/17]

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome the legislation and the opportunity to speak on it. Something was said on its timing. It has been too long in the making but I would not be overly critical of the current Government in this regard because previous Governments really should have taken some responsibility. We would not have a Bill that is so comprehensive had legislation been produced in a way that respected all...