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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (29 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: 142. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider a thorough forensic investigation of the existing grounds at the Bessborough mother and baby home site in Blackrock, County Cork, in order to establish whether there is a mass grave on the site. [15614/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (28 Mar 2023)

Paul Murphy: 508. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the campaign to save the existing grounds of Bessborough House, the former mother and baby institution, from development; if he will ensure there is a thorough forensic investigation on the grounds to establish the presence of a mass grave there; if he will ensure a director of authorised...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (28 Mar 2023)

James Lawless: 511. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the mother and baby homes redress payment scheme will be put in place; how a person can go about receiving their payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14935/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (28 Mar 2023)

Alan Dillon: 537. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason institutions (details supplied) were omitted from the mother-and-baby institutions payment scheme, despite the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth advising that they should be included; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15426/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (28 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 540. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will engage with the survivors and their relatives of a former mother-and-baby home (details supplied) to pursue an appropriate intervention as allowed for under the Institutional Burials Act 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15493/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Catherine Connolly: The culture of dignity and respect did not exist, clearly, from the reports and stories told and the histories told by the Women of Honour. From the beginning they wanted a full, independent statutory inquiry. They got a review. They were never happy with that but struggled and did their best to co-operate with it. Let us put that aside now. Here we are. Trust is of the essence. I echo...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (22 Mar 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Leo Varadkar: ...or adjudicate on them. In relation to records relating to Magdalen laundries, major work is currently under way to establish a central repository of records within the national centre for research and remembrance. The repository will encompass records related to industrial schools, reformatories, Magdalen laundries, mother and baby homes and related institutions. In April 2022, a...

Reform of Carer's Allowance Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I welcome this timely motion and signal the Labour Party's absolute support for it. It is widely acknowledged that the budgetary measures that were put in place in the most recent budget signalled a real intention by the Minister and the Government to pour money and resources into increasing the line payments. We acknowledge the €500 cost-of-living payment for people who were...

Joint Committee On Health: Dual Diagnosis and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: ...Murchú in before me. I like skipping Deputy Ó Murchú, of all people. This meeting has been fascinating. It has been so valuable for me to listen to this. I was talking to the panel privately and I learn by listening. That is why at this meeting I usually stay for the whole lot of it. I usually try and box-off any other commitments I have so that I can be here. My...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (21 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: As the Deputy is aware a standard procedure exists under Government financial procedures to allow funds allocated under any subhead that are not going to be used before year end to be reallocated for use under another subhead, a process known as virement. It allows Departments to respond to other resourcing needs and is subject to the prior sanction of the Department of Public Expenditure and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Birth Certificates (21 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Birth Information and Tracing Act provides a clear and guaranteed right of access to birth, early life, care, and medical information for persons who were adopted, boarded out or nursed out, subject to an illegal birth registration or resided in a mother and baby home or county home institution as a child (known as a relevant person). It also provides a a right of access to this...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: National Archives (21 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Departments of State, including their disposal or retention as archives. Documents in the archive of the McAleese Commission that are currently held by my Department constitute departmental records and, as such, are subject to the requirements of that legislation. Departments are obliged to transfer Departmental records more than 30 years old to National Archives. This obligation will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (21 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 928 and 929 together. The Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 provides a clear and guaranteed right of access to birth, early life, care, and medical information to all persons who were adopted, boarded out or nursed out, subject to an illegal birth registration, or resided as a child in a mother and baby or county home institution. Where this information...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023) See 5 other results from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank Deputies for their statements. There were many detailed and specific contributions. I take the opportunity to respond to Deputy Harkin's point as I was not in the Dáil earlier. The preservation of records about Ireland's institutional past is essential. A significant step in that preservation has already been taken with the Birth Information and Tracing Act we passed last...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...announcement that a referendum on gender equality will be held in November. It is something I have worked on for a long time. As Chairperson of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Gender Equality, I look forward to campaigning to bring the Constitution into the 21st century, to delete the sexist language around women and mothers, to replace it with gender-neutral language recognising care,...

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Emer Currie: ...to the Minister but I too have fitted a lot into my morning in Dublin West. I was in the company of brilliant community activists, including people from Phoenix FM, the Huntstown Community Centre and Castleknock Tidy Towns. While reference has been made to International Women's Day and the progress we have made, it does not take long before the focus shifts to the actions that are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Services and Supports Provided by the State for Autistic People: Discussion (2 Mar 2023)

Dr. Aoiveen Mathews: I thank the Chairman for the opportunity to speak here today. I am a mother of a child with autism and a GP from County Louth. My five-year-old son Darragh was diagnosed with autism in September 2021. He also has sensory processing disorder. There are two areas where I have concerns about the services and supports provided by the State, namely, the access to supports...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: I want to say how dismayed I am at how this meeting has gone. I do not ever remember a Fine Gael or Green Party Minister of Government taking such a party political and partisan approach when replying to questions that we, as members representing the people, ask. I am taken aback by the way that went. I found it shocking actually. I hope it is not necessary for the Chair to remind the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Victor Boyhan: ...Embassy who are in the Gallery. They are always very welcome to the House. The first issue I raise concerns an editorial in The Irish Timestoday referring to GSK plc, the successor to Wellcome, and the vaccine trials performed on children in this State. I raise this issue mindful that we will soon see the introduction of a scheme of redress for former residents of mother and baby homes....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Projects (1 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 132 and 133 together. In March 2022, the Government approved high-level proposals for a National Centre for Research and Remembrance to be located on the site of the former Magdalen Laundry on Sean McDermott Street in Dublin 1. The Centre will stand as a site of conscience, and will be a national memorial to honour equally all those who were resident...