Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 15:

In page 8, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following:

“Report on operation of Scheme

7. (1) The Minister shall, within six months of establishment day, cause a report on the operation of the Scheme to be laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas.

(2) A report under this section shall consider the following matters: (a) options to require persons engaged in the management, administration or operation of relevant institutions should be required to contribute to the cost of making payments under this Act;

(b) options to extend the Scheme to make a general payment available to relevant persons who spent any period of time, including less than 180 days, in a relevant institution;

(c) options to extend the Scheme to make a work-related payment available to a relevant person who, in circumstances referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of a “relevant person” in section 2(1), was resident for any period of time, including less than 90 days, in any relevant institution;

(d) options to extend the Scheme to make the provision without charge of certain health services available to relevant persons who spent less than 180 days in a relevant institution;

(e) options to extend the Scheme to make provision for including persons who were boarded-out or nursed-out from a relevant institution as children within the definition of relevant person;

(f) options to extend the Scheme by making additional payments available to relevant persons who were subjected to non-consensual or illegal vaccine trials or other medical experimentation;

(g) options to extend the Scheme by making additional payments available to relevant persons who experienced forced family separation;

(h) options to extend the Scheme by making additional payments available to

relevant persons who experienced racial discrimination or abuse;

(i) options to extend the Scheme to make payments and provision without charge of health services available to children of mixed race, such as children of mixed African and Irish parents or descent, who were placed in additional institutions in respect of which a public body had a regulatory or inspection function;

(j) whether there is a need to provide for additional institutions in Schedule 1;

(k) whether the requirement imposed on applicants by section 32(3) should be removed;

(l) whether the duration of the Scheme should be extended;

(m) whether levels of payment under the Scheme should be increased.”.