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Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Cathal Berry: I am very grateful to be in the Chamber this morning to speak on this very important motion and I acknowledge Deputy Noel Grealish and Maria in his constituency office and her team who did all the heavy lifting to put this together. To start, I want to double on what the Minister of State said about demographics. People talk about this demographic bulge as though it is a time bomb. I...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Tom Clonan: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I want to raise two issues. One is the report of the national independent review panel that has brought forward a report on the rape of an elderly and vulnerable citizen in a nursing home run by the HSE on behalf of the State. Other elderly residents made complaints about sexual assaults perpetrated by the same staff member. It would appear from the report that...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Jun 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Regina Doherty: The Bill is absolutely necessary. While we might argue about the definition, we can all agree that the rise of hatred and ill-behaviour by some people in this country towards others has grown exponentially. I do not know whether that is to do with the advent of social media over the past ten years that we have more of a platform for people to show their hatred. Society itself is changing....

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Jun 2023) See 5 other results from this debate

Lynn Ruane: ...separation on Committee Stage but it is important that I make it clear during this final debate. It is a gross abuse of the trust of survivors that forced family separation is totally absent and completely unrecognised within the redress scheme. The sole use of the length of stay and number of days criterion as a basis for this scheme goes directly against the recommendations of the OAK...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

...will try to pick up on a few of the Deputy's comments. I concur with what was just said that the pace things are moving at is phenomenal, such that it has motivated Geoffrey Hinton, a very seasoned and established thought leader within Google, to resign. Many voices that members will have heard of, such as Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Geoffrey Hinton, are all calling for a global pause in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Peace Commissioners (20 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: Peace Commissioners are appointed and may be removed from that appointment by the Minister for Justice under section 88 of the Courts of Justice Act 1924. The office of Peace Commissioner is an honorary one for which there is no remuneration or compensation by way of fees or expenses for their services. My Department maintains the Roll of Peace Commissioners and while every effort is made to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...cáipéisí seo a chaomhnú agus a chosaint agus, níos tábhachtaí fós, iad a chur ar fáil do lucht acadúla agus don phobal. My question relates to what appears to be - forgive me if I am wrong - the complete failure of this Government and previous Governments to take action to preserve and protect the records held by various religious...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023) See 13 other results from this debate

Victor Boyhan: Okay. That is the reference to that. As I said in my opening remarks, I intend to concentrate all of my efforts today on this. I do not want to keep getting up here and repeating the same old story. Even now, I find it exceptionally difficult to keep saying the same thing. This is my swansong to a certain extent, in relation to this legislation. I want to thank the members of the...

Seanad: Gradam an Uachtaráin Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I also want to take this opportunity to welcome my own colleague and friend, Councillor Anthony Waldron. I also welcome Professor Pat Guiry, the president of the Royal Irish Academy; Councillor Noel Heavey; and our other visitors to the Chamber. I want to acknowledge the work that my colleague Senator Keogan and other members of our technical...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (13 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 1068. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the grounds upon which a person (details supplied) may not get redress, who is a potential beneficiary under the Mother and Baby Home Redress Programme, but who understands that despite being affected in a similar way to others, may not get redress on the basis of their lesser stay in the institutions; and if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disabled People's Organisations and the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (1 Jun 2023)

...We had a protest a couple of weeks ago outside the gates of Leinster House about getting the optional protocol ratified. I thank every Deputy who turned up that day, as well as fellow DPO members and colleagues who turned up to support us. However, I was horrified to see the lack of support from other people in here in Leinster House. Even on that day, one person with a disability...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 124: In page 5, line 6, after “circumstances” to insert “and historical actions”. I acknowledge the clarification and the setting out of the reasons various amendments were ruled out of order. I have no difficulty with that. It is ironic that after all of the amendments I tabled, only two were accepted, namely, the first and the last....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I have only got five minutes, and there are two minutes left. The other issue which I want to talk about is adverse incidents. Baby Christopher was born in the National Maternity Hospital. He was a fully healthy baby born aborted under the foetal fatal abnormality element of the Bill. Did Ms O'Shea speak to his mother?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Ensuring high-quality early learning and childcare is accessible and affordable is a key priority for me and there are a number of funding programmes available through my Department that seek to improve capacity. The new core funding scheme, which we were just discussing, has a range of objectives, including capacity growth. Although this scheme has only been in place since last September,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (30 May 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...major investment in the State. Nothing specifically came up that was untoward about it. However, the numbers availing of it are much larger than we expected. Almost all came from the one country and that raised concerns. That is why we suspended it. Let us not forget that it brought millions of euro into sports clubs, community centres and economic programmes all around the country....

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Victor Boyhan: ...discrimination in recent years. Historically, we know that many children in care suffered racial discrimination. When we have engaged with such people, we have found that they were deeply hurt and damaged by their experiences, but this was an added layer. There was a feeling that somehow it was not being acknowledged. They acknowledged that things moved on in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I apologise for my absence. I was speaking in the Seanad on the mother and baby homes redress Bill. It struck me when I was speaking on the Bill that it ties in to this issue because many homeless people have come from institutional care. The discussion on the older cohort reminded me of the number of people who have come from various areas of State care, such as health facilities and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (30 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: As outlined in my previous reply to the Deputy on 30 March 2023, consultation with survivors and relative groups was an important part of the development of the Institutional Burials Act 2022. After taking Office, I visited the site of the former Mother and Baby Institution in Tuam, Co. Galway, and met with survivors and relatives of those who died while resident there. I carefully considered...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (30 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: From February 2023, 350 expectant parents from the Rotunda Hospital Dublin and 150 parents from Waterford University Hospital were offered an opportunity to participate in the First 5 Little Baby Bundle pilot project. 329 expectant mums from the Rotunda hospital and 148 mums from Waterford applied to participate. Included in this number is 8 sets of twins who will each receive a bundle....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (30 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: In September 2022, I launched Together for Better, the new funding model for early learning and childcare. This new funding model supports the delivery of early learning and childcare for the public good, for quality and affordability for children, parents and families as well as stability and sustainability for providers. Together for Better brings together three major programmes, the Early...