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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (30 Apr 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: 99. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications received to the mother and baby homes institutional redress scheme; the number of applications that have been processed and payments received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19203/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (20 Mar 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: 1153. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is any provision to include survivors of mother and baby homes who contributed towards the Investigation Committee of the final Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation and who passed away before the Taoiseach's apology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12427/24]

Commissions of Investigation (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Feb 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the Minister. I appreciate her comments regarding how the mother and baby home issue was handled. There is some possibility. I take on board what the Minister said regarding setting out a statement. I have to say, and the Minister will not be surprised, that just because of the level of work, particularly with the involvement of the Office of Parliamentary Legal Advisers, OPLA, I...

Commissions of Investigation (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Feb 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: I am delighted we are finally getting the opportunity to discuss this Bill as for us it has been a long time in the making. It was prompted by the mother and baby homes report that was published on 12 January 2021, having started up in 2015. It was a huge amount of time for people to have to wait. Over the days, weeks and months that followed, we all expressed our absolute shock at its...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (30 Jan 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: ...wishes to provide the answers to some of these questions in writing afterwards. Briefly, before I get into those questions, is there any expected date for the redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the Minister. I have one additional question, which is also related to savings. In your opening statement, you spoke about savings occurring under the mother and baby home institution programmes. Could we get a little more information on that and on the same subject, do we have a date for the redress to start?

Commissions of Investigation (Amendment) Bill 2023: First Stage (20 Sep 2023)

Kathleen Funchion: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 and to provide for related matters. I am delighted to introduce this Bill today. It has been in the works for a long time. It aims to amend the current Commissions of Investigation Act 2004. The idea for this Bill came to me during the work on the mother...

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

Kathleen Funchion: 709. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of a one-off payment of €10,000, €15,000 or €20,000 to the approximately 4,800 boarded-out children as part of the mother and baby homes institutional payment scheme, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24953/23]

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]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Ms Quinn. We will move to questions from members. Senator Seery Kearney has had to leave to attend the Seanad. Several members will be in the Seanad because the redress scheme for mother and baby homes is currently being discussed. The timing is unfortunate.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Kathleen Funchion: ...we did in the pre-legislative process in the committee was to bring in specialists in childhood trauma. It is probably one of the best sessions that we have ever had because it was so insightful and very interesting in terms of how it works. None of us can know or say what damage is done if one spends two years, two weeks or two days in an institution. One cannot say that someone who...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Kathleen Funchion: I welcome members of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home Alliance in the Public Gallery who have been active not only on this aspect of the scheme but on everything connected with the mother and baby institutions over the years. I speak in support of amendment No. 2 and my amendment No. 62, which is similar. I agree with Deputy Cairns that it was Deputy Sherlock who first gave us the idea that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Impact of Local Emissions: Discussion (30 Nov 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: .... I know the witnesses have been here a long time. I will say two things. First, when you take on the system or the State in any way, shape or form, you are up against it. You are dismissed and nearly painted as being crazy. The State will do everything in its power not to answer the questions. That leads me to my main point. I am not a member of this committee but I am the Chair...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Deputy Sherlock for tabling the amendment because otherwise we would not have been able to discuss many of the amendments we had hoped to discuss. I also want to speak to amendments Nos. 24 and 25, which are in this grouping and were tabled by Deputy Ward and me. My position has been on the record for months, if not years, since we started discussing this. Often when we talk about...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: I welcome this group of amendments. Everyone's concern in this regard was based on what happened in the aftermath of the publication of the report on the mother and baby homes. There was frustration and anger that there was no accountability in that instance. We wrote at least three times to invite representatives from the commission to appear before the Joint Committee on Children,...

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Engagement with the Taoiseach (12 May 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the Chairman and the staff for organising this. I also thank the Taoiseach for coming in. It is good to have this type of engagement. I know that Deputy Lawless' committee has much legislation but we have had a lot as well. Even just the name of our committee - the Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - shows the range of topics and wide remit of...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: I move amendment No. 15: In page 12, line 12, to delete “Regulation;” and substitute the following: “Regulation. Under this Act, all records relating to the adoption or informal care arrangement of a relevant person are considered to be that person’s personal data, regardless of whether that data is shared with another person. Personal data in relation to a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Residential Institutions (8 Mar 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: 469. To ask the Minister for Health if Carlow County Council handed over its records for the former Carlow Mother and Baby Home and Carlow Maternity Hospital also known as Sacred Heart Home to the South Eastern Health Board; if so, if those records are held by either the Adoption Authority of Ireland and or Tusla; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12327/22]

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Kathleen Funchion: I move amendment No. 78: In page 12, line 12, to delete “Regulation;” and substitute the following: “Regulation. Under this Act, all records relating to the adoption or informal care arrangement of a relevant person are considered to be that person’s personal data, regardless of whether that data is shared with another person. Personal data in relation to a...