Results 61-80 of 84 for mother and baby homes speaker:Clare Daly

Did you mean: other and baby home speaker:321?

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (25 Sep 2014)

Clare Daly: 9. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will ensure that the terms of reference of the mother and baby home inquiry operate similar to the Institutional Abuse Inquiry in Northern Ireland where any survivor from any institution may contact the inquiry and be heard. [35432/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (25 Sep 2014)

Clare Daly: 21. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will initiate a comprehensive examination of the State's treatment of women and their children born outside marriage, rather than a narrow inquiry into certain mother and baby homes in the interests of full justice and accountability for these citizens who were gravely wronged. [35433/14]

Interdepartmental Report on the Commission of Investigation into the Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (17 Jul 2014)

Clare Daly: Yesterday, I received a heart-breaking letter from a woman down the country who had a baby in the 1960s. That baby was taken away from her within minutes of the birth. She was quite ill herself. When she came to and was spoken to, she was told that the baby had died a week later. There was no autopsy, no body and no closure. She is left wondering if he is out there thinking that he is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (17 Jul 2014)

Clare Daly: I congratulate the Minister and wish him well in his brief. His is an evolving Department which is doing pioneering work in some areas. In that sense, it is a good challenge and I sincerely wish him the best. I briefly wish to raise some issues about the questions I tabled on mother and baby homes and adoptions. In regard to children in care and the appalling treatment some have...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (1 Jul 2014)

Clare Daly: 89. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will agree in principle to establishing a funding mechanism to provide for memorials for all the mother and baby homes angels plots as a sign of good faith to the victims of these institutions. [27938/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (1 Jul 2014)

Clare Daly: 628. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if forthcoming legislation on adoption tracing legislation will allow those illegally adopted from mother and baby homes to access their birth records. [27966/14]

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (10 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: ...painful discussion for many people. The horrors of Tuam have opened up wounds. All Members received correspondence from the American wife of a man forcibly adopted from an institution in Ireland to America. He has been searching for his mother for a lifetime. A man in Galway talked about bringing his grandmother to a field where the bodies of her dead twins were buried in a shoebox...

Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (5 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: For anybody to say that these events are surprising would be untrue. The scandals of the mother and baby homes have long been an open secret. The horrors of Tuam were investigated in 1944, when children were found to be emaciated, pot-bellied and uncared for, and there were a far greater number of them than there should have been. The records from that home were handed over to Galway City...

Open Adoption Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2014)

Clare Daly: I, too, welcome the Bill and was delighted when it was selected. It is great that the House is discussing a positive and proactive proposition on adoption. The Minister noted that he spoke about adoption in his maiden speech several decades ago. That the House is still discussing the issue demonstrates that it has not been taken seriously. We have unnecessarily complicated the issue of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Records Provision (17 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: The official apologies made to the victims of the Magdalen laundries and industrial schools made a huge difference to the people concerned and this issue will not go away. It meant a huge amount to the people concerned in Australia to have the state officially acknowledged the issue. In 2010 Gordon Brown apologised for Britain's role in some of these activities in disrupting the identity of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Records Provision (17 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: ...week to facilitate intercountry adoptions, since some of the people I am talking about here were the intercountry adoptees of their day, leaving these shores - sometimes in illegal circumstances - and ending up in America, and many of them are still trying to find out who they are. The Minister has previously refused to conduct an independent investigation into this practice. I ask her to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Residential Institutions Issues (11 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: 210. To ask the Minister for Health further to a parliamentary question of 4 December 2013 regarding mother and baby homes, the institutions other than the National Archives where copies of inspections into mother and baby homes are held. [53341/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Residential Institutions Issues (4 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: 158. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mother and baby homes that were inspected in the State prior to and after the passing of the 1952 Act; under what authority were they carried out and the actions taken; and where the records of such inspections can be found and viewed [52059/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Records Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: There is a great deal of information in that response and I respect the Minister's bona fides on this issue but that said, and sincerely meant, there are inordinate delays in this process. Two years ago, in an answer to a parliamentary question, the Minister told me about the Sacred Heart files being transferred to Glanmire. She has now confirmed that there are another 11 institutions whose...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 25. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the location where the records from the 42 mothers and baby homes that operated here and handled tens of thousands of adoptions over the decades are held; the amount of information held by the Health Service Executive in Glanmire; and the other information that is held in Glanmire, which can be made available to persons tracing their...

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: ...'s merriment but just over two weeks ago, I received a letter from an older lady who lives down the country. She had never written to a politician previously but was desperately seeking help and, with her permission, I am raising her case in the Chamber today because she represents thousands of other people who are suffering a similar torment. More importantly, I am raising it because...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (19 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: 16. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will initiate a public inquiry into the Sacred Heart Mother and Baby Homes and the manner in which adoptions were handled in here since its inception. [38605/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (25 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she will take to safeguard the birth records and files, held in the hands of private individuals and organisations, such as general practitioners, midwives, mother and baby homes, private agencies and so on, which contain important information regarding person's identities. [46752/12]

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Clare Daly: I also read the Justice for Magdalenes report over the weekend and upsetting as it is, it should be made compulsory reading for all citizens. It is a register of the crimes committed by this State against women. After reading the report, there can be no doubt that this was a deliberate social policy which was summed up in the report of the Commission on the Relief of the Sick and Destitute...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Clare Daly: I also read the Justice for Magdalenes report over the weekend and upsetting as it is, it should be made compulsory reading for all citizens. It is a register of the crimes committed by this State against women. After reading the report, there can be no doubt that this was a deliberate social policy which was summed up in the report of the Commission on the Relief of the Sick and Destitute...