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Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Deputy Funchion for tabling the motion and Solidarity-People Before Profit for the proposed additions. I welcome the opportunity to take part in the debate. I recognise the work the Minister has done to get us to this point. I could go over the history of the issue but will not do so in the limited time available. Instead, I will focus on a number of issues and refer to several...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Members for their contributions. In January this year, the Taoiseach, on behalf of the Government, the State and its citizens, apologised for the profound generational wrong visited upon Irish mothers and their children who ended up in mother and baby homes or county homes. He stated categorically that the State did not uphold its duty of care and thereby failed these women and...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important issue. I completely support Sinn Féin’s motion for an expansion of the mother and baby homes redress scheme to all former residents of mother and baby homes regardless of how long or short their stay. I thank Deputy Funchion for bringing this motion to the House. I echo the words of the survivors' group, who I...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...of investigation delivered its final report. The payment scheme was finally published on Tuesday, 16 November. The payment involves an €800 million redress payment for 34,000 survivors of mother and baby homes and county homes. However, we know from the response of the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in the Dáil last week that an estimated...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: I thank Sinn Féin for putting forward the motion. I supported and put my name to the motion on the basis that the idea of dividing people has come across very badly with survivors. In the past week, I have spoken to a number of survivors about the redress scheme. They are disappointed because they all came into this together, told their stories together and bared their souls in public...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "acknowledges: — that the State failed the women and children who were in Ireland's Mother and Baby Homes and County Homes institutions; — that women and their children were separated through coercion and/or force, often unlawfully, during their time in these...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Holly Cairns: Every time I stand up in this House to talk about mother and baby homes I feel the weight of it. It is always hard to know where to begin when talking about something that has caused generations of trauma for so many people. It is difficult to convey the hurt, the bewilderment and the sheer rage that no one is actually being held accountable for these crimes and it does not look like anyone...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Dessie Ellis: It is impossible to calculate the trauma experienced by those who resided in many of the mother and baby homes across the country. To understand the emotional, psychological and physical distress the survivors still experience is something that can only be comprehended by those who lived through the awful experience. We can only attempt to grasp their suffering by listening to their...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the opportunity to debate this motion so ably proposed by Deputy Funchion. My Labour Party colleagues and I were happy to co-sign the motion to render it more of a truly cross-party motion. I welcome the Minister's announcement that the Government will not oppose it and I look forward to further constructive engagement on the legislation the Minister descried that will be...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I welcome the opportunity to address the issues raised in this motion. We are all united in our belief that the State must take responsibility for the indisputable wrongs that were visited on women and children who spent time in these institutions. As the Taoiseach stated in his apology earlier this year, "The State failed you - the mothers and children in these homes." It would be...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Johnny Guirke: I tried over the last few days to think of new words somehow to crack through the State's deep-seated denial and awful treatment of the mother and baby homes survivors – women, girls and children who suffered horrific abuse and human rights violations in these religious prisons, one in my own constituency of Meath West, Castlepollard mother and baby home. I do not have words strong...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: I am pleased to get the opportunity to raise this issue and speak on the redress scheme. I clearly remember the first woman who confided in me about her time in a mother and baby institution. It was about ten years ago, and I was a member of Kilkenny Borough Council at the time. This lady had come to me for advice on a different matter, but she ended up telling me her story. I still...