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Seanad: Moving Towards Zero Tolerance of Violence against Women: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Barry Ward: ...welcome what the Minister has outlined. I know there was more to come in that speech but time constraints are such that we could not hear it all. The strategy the Government has to deal with domestic and gender-based violence is tremendously important. I welcome, for example, the suggestion that there will be a dedicated agency in this regard and I welcome all of the other matters,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Registration of Births (9 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...was that a State inquiry into illegal adoptions (broadly defined) should be established on a non-statutory basis. The question of creating an effective non-statutory inquiry is a sensitive, complex and challenging one. The Special Rapporteur acknowledges this and, in particular, notes the challenges associated with access to records for a non-statutory inquiry. In this regard, it is also...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Payments (8 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: We need full disclosure and openness from the Government and those who were in positions of power in regard to the Government’s heartless political strategy to withhold and deny disability payments to those in residential care who were entitled to it. This must involve the full co-operation of and transparency on the part of the Government, including the acceptance of any requests...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: The nursing home charges scandal is the latest in a long line of aggressive legal strategies employed by the State to deny justice to vulnerable people. It must now be added to a list that includes the CervicalCheck women, the hepatitis C women, the denial of disability payments for those in long-term care, the denial of redress to a large cohort of mother and baby homes survivors, and many...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2023)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue again. I emphasise that this is largely an historical issue. It relates to nursing home charges prior to 2005, which is more than 18 years ago and disability payments prior to 2007 or perhaps even prior to 1996 and largely relates to laws from the 1970s. We do not have all the facts yet - nobody does. As I said last week, we will do whatever is...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: I welcome the opportunity to discuss the Revised Estimates for my Department for 2023, including that of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. As members will have seen from the briefing material provided last week, my Department is projected to spend €3.173 billion on current expenditure and €103 million on capital expenditure during 2023. This represents an...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I make two points in respect of the Deputy's excellent question. The first is that there are inevitably going to be trade-offs between how we respond to legitimate challenges and issues of the past, including those of yesterday, recent years or further back, and how we meet the needs of today, let alone in the context of how we invest in the future. Those trade-offs may not always be...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (8 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 is not applicable in this circumstance, and standard data protection law applies. The Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 enables a person who was adopted, nursed out or boarded out, subject to an illegal birth registration, or who resided in a mother and baby home or county home institution as a child, or their Next of Kin to apply for their...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Dáil is in the final stages of legislating for the redress scheme for the survivors of the mother and baby homes. There is widespread criticism of this scheme from Opposition, legal and human rights experts and, most importantly of all, from the survivors. The main criticism stems from the exclusion of survivors who have spent less than six months in these institutions. That means...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Tánaiste explain to the public why successive Fianna Fáil- and Fine Gael-led Governments, including many he was a part of, have pursued a systematic strategy over many years of denying rights and entitlements to vulnerable people and to people who have been wronged by the State, often pursuing a very hostile, cynical legal strategy to deny people their rights? Vulnerable...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Feb 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Victor Boyhan: Yes. I am proposing that No. 2 not be taken today. Second, on the mother and baby homes redress scheme, I met a few people here yesterday who had been sitting in the Gallery and were totally devastated when they left late last night. We will have an opportunity to discuss this issue again. I commend Deputies Boyd Barrett and Cairns on their moving pieces on “Morning Ireland”...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023) See 17 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: It is St. Brigid's Day. Brigid was a significant woman in Christian and pagan times. I try to take strength from her because we are tired. We do not want to do this but we have no choice. We have listened to people's sheer frustration, upset and disbelief. I lost a little patience with someone I talked to yesterday because I thought that person was still hopeful. I was left in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I heard the Taoiseach's responses earlier on the nursing home charges scandal. He defended the strategy that has been pursued by successive governments not to give people what they should be entitled to in respect of the huge outlays they have for nursing home charges. He defended that position and said the Government has never conceded the obligation to pay these charges. If that was the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Leo Varadkar: Picking up on something the Deputy said earlier, the Government is putting in place a scheme to compensate people who were residents of mother and baby homes, despite the fact that nobody has found any legal liability attached to the State in that regard. There was no question of court cases, legal strategies or any of those things. The Government decided it was the right thing to do to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: On Sunday, it was illegal charges to older persons in nursing home care over the course of three decades. Last night, it was the removal of disability allowance payments, the DPMA, from up to 12,000 vulnerable people in institutional care. Perhaps tomorrow we will see yet another story of a group of people being failed by the State. However, this is a much bigger story. The real story, as...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (1 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 165. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the niece of a deceased woman (details supplied) who spent time in a mother and baby home is eligible to access the redress scheme; if this negates the claim for compensation if the child of the deceased woman was adopted on the mother's behalf; and if so, if this then allows the next of kin, a niece make a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Victor Boyhan: This week the Dáil will be discussing and, I presume, passing the Mother and Babies Institutional Payment Scheme Bill 2022. At least that is its intention. I do not want to rehash all of that today. Suffice it to say, the Bill is in the Dáil and many of us have received hundreds and hundreds of emails about it. I tend to respond to them all as a collective group because it is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Services (24 Jan 2023)

Joan Collins: A constituent contacted me recently regarding local parents whose babies and children are registered with the Old County Road primary care clinic. The clinic is no longer doing baby and child developmental checks. Several local mothers have reported being told by the clinic that these checks cannot be carried out on their babies or small children due to staff shortages. They are being sent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Tom Clonan: I bid good morning to the Minister and to all present and I thank the Minister for attending. I am here as a member of this committee but there is also a provision of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD, for parents and carers to advocate and speak to their lived experience. This is specifically catered for within the UN convention. I am compelled,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Commissions of Inquiry (18 Jan 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...that a State inqu iry into illegal adoptions (broadly defined) should be established on a non-statutory basis. The question of creating an effective non-statutory inquiry is a sensitive, complex and challenging one. The Special Rapporteur acknowledges this and, in particular, notes the challenges associated with access to records for a non-statutory inquiry. In this regard, it is...