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Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Mr. Kevin McCarthy: I thank the committee for the invitation to assist in its examination of the 2022 appropriation account for the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. I am accompanied by my colleagues, Dr. Anne-Marie Brooks, Ms Sheenagh Rooney, Mr. Colm Ó Conaill, Mr. David Delaney and Ms Laura McGarrigle, assistant secretaries. I am also supported...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Diagnoses (17 Apr 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue for discussion and the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for its having been selected. As Minister of State with responsibility for disabilities, I am fully committed to the continued development and enhancement of our disability services, through the implementation of my Department’s Action Plan for Disability Services 2024-2026. As the Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (17 Apr 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme provides financial payments and health supports to eligible people who spent time in a Mother and Baby or County Home Institution. It is recognised that there are people who suffered stigma, trauma and abuse in other institutions, and outside of institutions also. However, the institutions covered by the Scheme are those identified by the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: While we are offering congratulations, I congratulate the Deputy on the birth of his second daughter, Sadhbh. I wish him and his partner, Nicola, well. As I said to him earlier, he is surrounded by women. He is blessed among women and it will be very good for him. I sincerely wish him well. It is wonderful to be welcoming a new baby girl. The quality and commitment of Irish teachers...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (11 Apr 2024)

Jerry Buttimer: I have received notice from the following Senators that they propose to raise the following matters: Senator John McGahon - The need for the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to extend the waiver on development levies for rural one-off housing. Senator Malcolm Byrne - The need for the Minister for Health to make a statement on the total number of vacant or derelict...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Maternity Leave (11 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for coming here, in the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman's place, today. Any of us who are fortunate to have had babies know the immense value of maternity leave. It is a way of society saying to women to take time with their newborn babies. Approximately 60 women in this country each year are diagnosed with cancer during their pregnancy and, of course, their...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Apr 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome Senator O’Hara. That was a very powerful first speech to the Seanad. I know he will make a great addition and be a great voice in this Chamber over the next year. I also pay tribute to Niall Ó Donnghaile. His absence is a huge loss to this Chamber. I hope to see him back in political life in some form in the years to come. He has very important perspectives and I...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Today, the name on the Taoiseach's office door changed for the third time in four years, but nothing has really changed for workers and families. How could it? This Government was formed to block the change that people voted for in the most recent general election. Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party clubbed together to ensure that the hopeful votes of so many for something new...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: 1111. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason he excluded the Cherry Orchard Hospital and other hospitals from the redress scheme; if he will reconsider these exclusions with respect to the fact some babies born in qualifying mother and baby homes were hospitalised after birth for several months before returning to an institution; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 Apr 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Whilst I cannot comment on individual cases I will try to be helpful in more general terms. The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme is designed to provide payments and other benefits to people who spent time in one or more of the Mother and Baby or County Home Institutions, that were identified by the Commission of Investigation as having a main function of providing sheltered...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (9 Apr 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1340 to 1345, inclusive, and 1347 together. Encouraging mothers to breastfeed is a priority, both for the Department of Health and for the HSE National health policy, including the Healthy Ireland Framework, Healthy Ireland Strategic Action Plan, the National Maternity Strategy, the Obesity Policy and Action Plan, and the National Cancer Strategy,...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Gary Gannon: When I sat down this morning to prepare my words and think about what I was going to offer to this debate today, I thought about some of the images from last week of people in our international protection system being bussed to Crooksling and then walking back, of the testimony from their advocates and some of the conversations I had with some of those sleeping in tents over the last number...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Childcare Services (21 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: I thank Senator Sherlock for raising this important issue and for offering the opportunity to respond. Home visiting programmes provide support and guidance to expecting parents and parents of babies and young children. Home visiting is a prevention and early intervention strategy used to support parents to promote infant and child health, foster educational development and school...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Mar 2024)

Sharon Keogan: I am relieved that the UK has finally prohibited puberty blockers for minors. It is a bit late, but it is welcome news. Medically transitioning minors is the greatest medical mistreatment scandal on record. However, this travesty continues unchallenged in Ireland. Puberty blockers such as Lupron continue to be used for the medical castration of convicted rapists. Adjusting and amending...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: Yes, and it beggars belief. I know the lady, Emily O'Reilly, because we have worked with her previously. She is very thorough. I do not know whether it has been flagged with the European Ombudsman. It goes back a while before her tenure, so it might have been dealt with by a different ombudsman. I would suggest that if she does not have that information, we might flag it up with her as...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. We proposed a similar motion four weeks ago. It is important because so many areas, including Killarney and areas in south Kerry, are under pressure for GPs. Those areas are losing doctors. Even more people are being brought into the area but there is no other doctor to cater for those extra people. We are talking about...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Offices (20 Mar 2024)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputies for their questions. On IPAS and Mount Street, officials visited the tents on 16 March. Contrary to some reports, Crooksling has toilets, hot showers, personal toiletries, food, a bus service to Dublin and 24-hour security on site. Safetynet is providing health screening, which commenced on 18 March. There is a building where meals are served and men can charge...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Leo Varadkar: The mother and baby homes institutions payment scheme opened for applications at 9 o'clock this morning. It has taken far too long but I am glad the scheme is now up and running. An extensive information and awareness campaign will take place both at home and abroad, and applicants will be supported throughout the application process with the information and advice they need. Where a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 enshrines in law the right to identity information for all those who are adopted, nursed out, boarded out, subject to an illegal birth registration, or resided in a mother and baby or county home institution as a child. It also allows for access to information by a child of a relevant person where their parent has died, and for access by the next of...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme will open for applications on 20 March and a dedicated webpage is now live at www.gov.ie/paymentscheme which contains information on how people will be able to apply for benefits under the Scheme. Section 37 of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023 provides that the personal representative of a deceased relevant person,...