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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)

John Brady: ...tasked with heading up, into the leaking of confidential information from the Cabinet. I am speaking specifically in relation to the leaking of the report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes in January 2021. Does Mr. Fraser think that the establishment of an investigation into the leaking of that information was necessary?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)

John Brady: ...He has headed up investigations in the past. He has been tasked with heading up the investigation into the leaking of private information around the report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes. I am asking him about the methodology around that and whether he has been tasked with heading up an investigation into the continuation of the leaking of confidential...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: First Annual Report of the Oversight Group on Women, Peace and Security: Discussion (22 Jun 2021)

John Brady: I thank our guests for the comprehensive overview they have provided this morning. I commend and thank them for all their ongoing work on the national action plan. I am delighted to meet them. It is not lost on me that our meeting coincides with the launch by Women's Aid of its annual impact report. Some of the statistics in the report are shocking. In the context of gender-based...

Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2021)

John Brady: The mother and baby homes issue stands as a great stain on the history of this State. It has twice made victims of the people who suffered in those institutions, each time at the hands of the State, as victims of abuse and as victims of a cover-up. The Government, which has direct responsibility for the commission, must add its name to the long list of perpetrators who have inflicted...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: Paul Graham, a survivor of the Bethany Home, has challenged the Government to explain why it has refused to pay redress to the home's former residents. The wrongs of Ireland's mother and baby homes are accepted by all in this House. Many of those who survived horrific treatment during their younger years are now elderly and in ill health. Sadly, in the case of the Bethany Home, they are...

Social Welfare Bill: Second Stage (23 Nov 2017)

John Brady: We just do not know. Over 42,000 older people who have been robbed of their State pension because of the 2012 changes to pension bands and rates made by the Minister's party would see absolutely nothing in this Bill, despite total consensus in the House here that these changes were wrong and that they disproportionately affected women, discriminating against them either for starting to...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

John Brady: ...of the social protection measures are the reintroduction of old payments that Fine Gael either cut or abolished, announcements of new schemes without any substance as to what they actually are, and name changes. Only Fine Gael could bring about a situation where for the second budget in a row, lone parents will be better off on one-parent family payment or on jobseeker’s...