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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Programmes (8 May 2024)

Simon Harris: To Deputy Tully, regarding the point she made about the working family payment and the one-parent family and the challenges she outlined that present when the youngest child reaches the age of seven, these are matters we consider in the context of the budget. We have taken several measures to help remove poverty traps and cliff edges. We have also tried to take a number of measures,...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...insert the following: “(10) Nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting the compellability powers of an Oireachtas Committee, save for where the Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight of Dáil Éireann and the Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight of Seanad Éireann have otherwise provided.”. The amendment seeks to insert...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill, which sets out to rebuild and restructure our Defence Forces as a modern, confident entity that reflects our modern, confident State. Being straightforward, procedural at times and administrative in nature, the matters within it would ordinarily preclude extensive discussion or debate. Regrettably, the non-straightforward approach means this...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 May 2024)

Emer Currie: Senator Craughwell expressed concern over the transparency of funding that goes towards overseas aid and development, but he also mentioned NGOs. There is an audit process for any public funds to ensure they are being used correctly. We can, of course, send on the Senator's concern but I also suggest he contact the public accounts committee on this issue. Senator Sherlock made a really...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Hildegarde Naughton: ...I reiterate that the Government is deeply conscious of the trauma which has been experienced by all survivors of abuse, including those who were resident in institutions such as industrial schools and reformatories. Nothing can ever make up for the pain and suffering endured by survivors. I would also like to echo the Minister, Deputy Foley’s appreciation for the work and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 May 2024)

Lisa Chambers: ...to the Order of Business. Senator O'Loughlin welcomed the fact that Diageo will be able to move ahead with its investment into its plant in County Kildare. This will be worth €200 million and will create 1,000 jobs, now that the single objector has withdrawn their objection. I wish the company and County Kildare well. It is a fantastic investment into the area. The Senator...

Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024)

Eugene Murphy: Well done to the Acting Chairperson on chairing this debate. I was listening to it in my office before I came into the Chamber and it has been wonderful to hear the contributions from everybody around the place. We have heard wonderful stories of people in societies and communities. I congratulate Senator Pauline O'Reilly and her colleagues on tabling this worthwhile motion. There was a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (1 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme is designed to provide payments and other benefits to people who spent time in one or more of the Mother and Baby or County Home Institutions, that were identified by the Commission of Investigation as having a main function of providing sheltered and supervised ante and post-natal facilities to single mothers and their children. The...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important issue. It is tough for everybody to try to grapple with what happened in the past. When the Government brought in the redress scheme for mothers and babies homes, it built things into the relevant Bill that created division. It included a timeframe requirement whereby people had to have spent six months in a mother and baby home before...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (30 Apr 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank my colleague Deputy Gannon who has very strongly and adeptly described the flaws and gaps in this legislation, and indeed the trauma still experienced by so many survivors in the State. I want to talk about another group of men and women who deserve recognition and the support of the State but who have been completely ignored by it to date, namely the survivors of Westbank...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (30 Apr 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 lays out the obligations of both public bodies and private individuals in terms of retaining and maintaining relevant records as defined under the Act. Relevant records are defined as relating to a relevant person, and contain birth information, early life information, care information or medical information relating to him or her, or a photograph or...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I welcome the south Tipperary carers, who are still with us in the Gallery, and Denis and Josephine Higgins from Monaghan, who are also with us here today. I thank the Regional Group for tabling this Private Members' motion and for highlighting the fantastic work carers do throughout the country. As the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, said in her opening...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Verona Murphy: ...years old when the tragedy happened. I cannot pretend to remember but I have felt everything that has been said through the inquest in the last number of days, as well as every name I have heard and every family that has been remembered, particularly those who are no longer here but also those whose lives changed forever, not just those lost in the Stardust tragedy. Many of you have...

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...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Mr. Kevin McCarthy: I thank the committee for the invitation to assist in its examination of the 2022 appropriation account for the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. I am accompanied by my colleagues, Dr. Anne-Marie Brooks, Ms Sheenagh Rooney, Mr. Colm Ó Conaill, Mr. David Delaney and Ms Laura McGarrigle, assistant secretaries. I am also supported...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (17 Apr 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme provides financial payments and health supports to eligible people who spent time in a Mother and Baby or County Home Institution. It is recognised that there are people who suffered stigma, trauma and abuse in other institutions, and outside of institutions also. However, the institutions covered by the Scheme are those identified by the...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Rónán Mullen: Unless the Minister engages I will leave the O'Shea report for another day and will not speak about last night's documentary. I have already made my position on the documentary and on RTÉ's behaviour with it known at an earlier stage today in the House. Suffice it to say that I think the many flaws in Ms O'Shea's knowledge were clearly exposed at the committee, not least in her...

Anniversary of the Introduction of the Smoking Ban: Statements (11 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...;idí seo a bhaineann leis an gcosc a chuireadh le tobac 20 bliain ó shin. I am very pleased to be here to reflect on the 20th anniversary of the prohibition on smoking in the workplace, one of the most significant and memorable days in my own public life. For the past two decades, since 29 March 2004, we have become accustomed to breathing in fresh air indoors. It is almost...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Today, the name on the Taoiseach's office door changed for the third time in four years, but nothing has really changed for workers and families. How could it? This Government was formed to block the change that people voted for in the most recent general election. Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party clubbed together to ensure that the hopeful votes of so many for something new...

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...