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Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (6 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...that by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved." Article 41.2.2° states, "The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home." That is the existing text that it is proposed to be deleted if there is...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputies for their contributions to our statements on International Women's Day. This is the fourth time I have had the opportunity to deliver the speech on behalf of the Government and to listen to Deputies. During those four years there has been criticism that not enough has been done. There is always more for every government to do. There is more for this Government to do...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme will open for applications on 20 March, eight months after the passage of its underpinning legislation. A dedicated webpage is now live at www.gov.ie/paymentscheme, which contains information on how people will be able to apply to the Payment Scheme, and what information applicants will need. Once the Scheme opens, the Payment Scheme Office...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Residential Institutions Redress Scheme was a scheme operated by the Department of Education and I cannot comment on that scheme or its scope. My department is responsible for delivery of the comprehensive package of support measures agreed by the Government as part of the Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. A cornerstone...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (29 Feb 2024)

Professor Fidelma Ashe: I thank the Senator for her questions. I am aware of the work of Professor Jennifer Todd and Dr. Joanne McEvoy. We have similar findings. I do not know if Professor Todd or Dr. McEvoy mentioned this, but the projects we are involved in are really labour-intensive. I cannot stress that enough. From a personal point of view, the funding we have received over the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 92, 110 and 128 together. The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme will open for applications on 20 March. A dedicated webpage is now live at www.gov.ie/paymentscheme, which contains information on how people will be able to apply to the Payment Scheme, and what information applicants will need. Once the Scheme opens, the Payment Scheme Office will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 provides for the release of information to all relevant persons, that is individuals who were adopted, boarded out, nursed out, the subject of an illegal birth registration, or resided as a child in one of the institutions listed in the Schedule. The Schedule as included in the Act was based on the list of institutions that were investigated as part...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions contains 22 commitments to survivors, intended to address the expressed priorities of those who spent time in Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions, as well as respond to the findings and recommendations of the Commission of Investigation. Of these 22 commitments, 9 are completed and a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: What I am getting at is that you feel there are certain principles that ought to be embedded in a job interview. Maybe this has to go into employment law or insurance law and is not Coimisiún na Meán's baby. However, it does seem to me that machine learning will challenge existing laws and it will not be good enough for Coimisiún na Meán to say there is a data law and...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2024)

Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 2: In page 4, line 19, after “practitioner” to insert the following: “(other than a general practitioner who has notified the Minister that the practitioner does not wish the premises at which he or she provides healthcare services to be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be a relevant healthcare premises)”. This amendment refers...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (27 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 415 and 451 together. I am acutely aware of the sense of urgency surrounding the establishment of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme and I will do so within this quarter. I am also very conscious that many potential applicants to the Scheme are elderly, and in that regard I made provision in the underpinning legislation for the Scheme that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Eoin Ó Broin: This has been an issue of quite significant discussion, both at PLS and subsequently. It is an issue on which I am still completely unclear as to why the changes that are in the Bill have been made. Probably one of the strongest contributions we heard on this, both during the prelegislative scrutiny and more recently, was from the Irish Planning Institute. It officially reiterated its...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: Is fáilte an Aire. I echo the commendations for the Civic Engagement Group on bringing this motion to the Seanad. They speak day in and day out about the horror that is unfolding in Gaza. The one thing we see Palestinians say is, "Don't stop talking about it. You are our voices. Our lives depend on this." I am not the only one in saying that the feeling of powerlessness, frustration...

Healthcare Provision in Rural Communities: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak and thank Deputy McGrath and his staff for putting this important motion together. At the outset, I want to convey my deepest sympathy to Deputy Michael Collins, a member of our group, Councillor Danny Collins and the mother of Michael Lynch. Michael was a nephew of Deputy Collins and tragically lost his life in the last few days. We pass on our...

Commissions of Investigation (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Martin Browne: I thank and commend Deputy Kathleen Funchion for bringing forward this Bill. Like the speakers before me, I hope the Government will support it. The Bill is important because it seeks to ensure that certain members of any future commission of investigation, into whatever issue it is established to explore, cannot simply discharge their duties upon submission of its final report without a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...fertility-related issues are addressed through the public health system at the lowest level of clinical intervention necessary. This Model of Care comprises three stages, starting in primary care (i.e., GPs) and extending into secondary care (i.e., Regional Fertility Hubs) and then, where necessary, tertiary care (i.e., IVF and ICSI (intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection)), with patients...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: ...section 621: “Power of the Court to return assets which have been improperly transferred 621A. (1) The court has the following power where, on the application of the Minister or the liquidator and/or employee representative and employees’ recognised trade union in respect of a situation in which collective redundancies have arisen in circumstances in which the employer...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Michael Moynihan: ...is not a family in the country that has not been affected in some way by road deaths. We are no different from that. The context of this Bill is the increase in road deaths over the last while and the terrible trauma that is inflicted on the family, the person who loses their life and the consequences of that. We have to sympathise, in the first instance. We also have to say that we...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (13 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 548 and 549 together. The Residential Institutions Redress Scheme was a scheme operated by the Department of Education and I cannot comment on that scheme or its scope. My department is responsible for delivery of the comprehensive package of support measures agreed by the Government as part of the Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (7 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am acutely aware of the urgency to open the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme and I will do so within this quarter. I am also very conscious that many potential applicants to the Scheme are very elderly, and in that regard I made provision in the underpinning legislation for the Scheme that priority may be given to an application depending on the applicant’s circumstances,...