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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (25 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 296. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if Irish citizens whose parents were also Irish citizens, that spent time in a mother and baby or county home institution in Northern Ireland (details supplied) for a significant period of time will be eligible for support under the mother and baby home payment scheme and action plan; and if he will make a...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Colm Burke: I very much welcome the debate on this report. I begin by suggesting that serious consideration be given to having a national remembrance day for all those who died in the mother and baby homes. It is something that should be considered over the next few months. I want to touch on one or two issues that were raised earlier today. Back in 1974, the former President and then Senator,...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2018)

Colm Burke: I welcome today's announcement that there will be an extensive exhumation of bodies at the Tuam mother and babies home. The remains will be forensically examined and, most importantly, there will then be a respectful burial. This issue has been widely debated and discussed. I understand the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, presented the proposal to Cabinet this...

Seanad: Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (2 Oct 2012)

Colm Burke: ...the Minister came to office. Other speakers referred to the scaremongering from certain quarters in regard to what is proposed. The Master of the Rotunda Hospital told me last week that some 40 babies are born in that hospital every year suffering withdrawal systems because their mothers are drug addicts. I understand the corresponding figure in the other two Dublin maternity hospitals...