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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (9 May 2024)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 177 and 178 together. As the Deputy will be aware, the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 established the Residential Institutions Redress Board (RIRB) to make financial awards to people who, as children, were resident in specified institutions and who had injuries consistent with abuse suffered while resident in those institutions. The Redress...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (21 Jan 2021)

Norma Foley: I am supportive of proposals for memorialisation and agree that the legacy of abuse that has been uncovered by Commissions of Investigation should never be forgotten. The Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate subject specifications for History provide flexibility and opportunities for the findings of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission report and other reports on institutional abuse to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (21 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will be aware, last June Government approved proposals for the delivery of a package of ongoing supports and services for survivors of abuse in residential institutions, relating to health, education, advocacy and trauma-informed practice. This package of supports was developed following consideration of the final report of the survivor-led Consultative Forum, along with other...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mother and Baby Homes (5 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy will be aware, last June Government approved proposals for the delivery of a package of ongoing supports and services for survivors of abuse in residential institutions, relating to health, education, advocacy and trauma-informed practice. This package of supports was developed following consideration of the final report of the survivor-led Consultative Forum, along with other...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (16 May 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department holds certain records relating to former residents of 59 industrial schools and reformatories, who were placed there by way of a Court order. These records generally consist of extracts from Registers, database entries (i.e. computerised versions of the Registers) and some individual pupil and family files, etc. However, it should be noted that the Department generally does not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (23 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...Galway, in order to locate the remains of the correspondent’s aunt, who passed away in 1918. The purpose of the Institutional Burials Act 2022 is to provide a legislative framework for the recovery and re-interment of the remains of those who died in residential institutions and who were buried in a manifestly inappropriate manner. The 2022 Act was developed in response to the...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (30 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill before the House. I am deeply conscious in introducing the Bill of the enormous trauma that has been endured by all survivors of abuse, and I know that nothing we do now can ever truly undo the hurt which has been caused. Nearly 25 years ago, on 11 May 1999, the then Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, apologised on behalf of the State to 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...