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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...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...does not need help from me for it to be characterised as sometimes being paternalistic in its attitude towards women. There is evidence of that in multiple pieces of legislation such as the mother and baby homes legislation, which told people they are somehow unaffected because they spent less than six months in an institution, and legislation that tells women they have to wait three days...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...point based on information that is incomplete. Senator Boylan highlighted better than any of us could how problematic this amendment is, but tonight marks the end of an incredibly disappointing and infuriating journey for tens of thousands of survivors of mother and baby homes. This redress scheme is flawed, callous, inhumane and discriminatory. Even at the last hour, there is an...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Adoption Services (30 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...the Minister said how many of the applications are waiting for longer than the statutory time period, but maybe I missed it. That was one of my questions. We all knew there was going to be thousands of applications when the Minister set out the timeframes for responses. People have been waiting for decades to access this really basic information about themselves. Every time I and other...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: I also wish everyone a happy International Women's Day. Although this annual session for International Women’s Day is a welcome chance to highlight the issues impacting girls and women, I have to wonder if I could just dust off last year’s speech and give it again. What has changed in the meantime? The Government’s announcement of the referendum on removing the...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...processed in a timely manner. The current wording states that a deciding officer will assess an application "as soon as practicable". That is completely unacceptable. The amendment in my name and that of other Deputies insists that this be replaced with "within 28 days". These amendments are necessary because survivors and campaigners do not trust the process the Minister is proposing....

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I welcome the opportunity to look at the Department's Estimates and spending, particularly given that it seemed to be the overriding concern when it came to denying redress for thousands of survivors of mother and baby institutions. The main finding of the Department's report was that survivors want redress to be based on forced family separation as a priority. Time spent in an institution...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 26: In page 14, to delete lines 19 to 22. This amendment seeks to remove another exclusion based on spending a minimum amount of time in an institution. The section relates to people who make another application to the scheme in the unlikely situation that another institution is added to the list of institutions, and the arbitrary six-month criteria is relevant here...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 2: In page 5, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “Report on operation of Scheme 2.(1) The Minister shall cause a report on the operation of the Scheme to be commenced on the day that is six months after the establishment day and to be laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas as soon as practicable after its completion. (2) A report under...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...that any public information campaign has an international element. The OAK report makes special reference in several places to survivors living abroad, in some cases due to their experience in mother and baby homes or being boarded out. It should also be noted that the general scheme referred to public advertisement in Ireland and abroad but the requirement for an international element...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: The scale of abuse, terror and cruelty experienced by thousands of women, children and infants in mother and baby homes is almost unimaginable. This includes unexplained infant deaths, disappeared children, illegal adoptions, incarceration, forced labour, illegal medical experimentation and emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Both the church and State have responsibility for these abuses...

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges: — that all survivors of Mother and Baby Homes, County Homes, related institutions, unlawful or forced adoptions, and abuse in boarding out and adoptive placements deserve immediate and fair redress; — the Report of the findings of the Consultation with Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes and County Homes, also known as...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (12 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...that reflects social realities. Employment law needs to recognise the complexities of life, including those encountered in contexts such as caring for one's family, the importance of one's health and the experience of the victims and survivors of domestic and gender-based violence. Compared with other European countries, Ireland has poor worker's rights. We lag many other jurisdictions...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...not say he brought a proposal to Cabinet. I heard him talking about the issue on the radio so he certainly brought the proposal to the national airwaves. I spoke on the radio after the Minister and asked what he will do if we have two reports, one of which states there is no evidence of illegal adoption or incarceration, all of the things we know happened, and another report from an...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Institutional Burials Act 2022 (Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam) Order 2022: Motion (14 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: The excavation of the Tuam site, the identification of victims and the dignified burial of remains will happen only because of the work of Catherine Corless, survivor groups, campaigners and their relatives and allies. Any attempts to intervene at Tuam and other locations have been resisted by governments and the State for decades. A rotten partnership between the State and the Roman...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 11: In page 14, line 6, to delete “, from time to time,”. These amendments relate to the Government's approach to establish a separate director and office to intervene in each site rather than establishing a standing body which has the capacity to examine any known or potential site. This is a key barrier to justice for the deceased. A separate office...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 12: In page 14, lines 7 and 8, to delete “with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform”. The specific inclusion in multiple sections that an intervention is only possible with consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is a clear and disgraceful indication of the priorities with this legislation. It shows that...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: I want to acknowledge that today will be another difficult day for the survivors of mother and baby homes and other institutional systems. This is an extremely sensitive topic, which unfortunately is compounded by the timing of this session on the same day the Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth will discuss the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022. Chrissie...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Minister and the rest of the delegation for joining us today. I acknowledge the work done by the Minister in securing additional funding and his Department has a really broad remit that provides essential services, all of which need more resources. I have several points to raise. Under the subhead relating to mother and baby institutions, the increase in allocations for this...