Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 196: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when he intends to publish the Residential Institutions (Amendment) Bill; and the additional institutions that will be included in that Bill. [15630/04]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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The inclusion of additional institutions on the Schedule of institutions in the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 does not require an amendment to the Act. Section 4 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 allows for the addition to the Schedule of institutions that are identified as reformatory schools, industrial schools, orphanages, children's homes and special schools in which children were placed and resident and in respect of which a public body had a regulatory or inspection function.

My Department has received correspondence from both individuals and survivor groups identifying a number of additional institutions that may be eligible for inclusion in the Schedule. The matter is under consideration and it is my intention that a list of additional institutions will shortly be brought before both Houses of the Oireachtas.