Pádraic McCormack (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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Question 206: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the extended list of schools and institutions will be included in the Residential Institutional Redress Act 2002; and when he proposes to lay this list before Dáil Éireann. [15640/04]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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Section 4 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 provides for the addition 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, to the Schedule.

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. Discussions have taken place between my Department and other Departments which may have provided a regulatory or inspection function in the operation of these facilities in order to ascertain whether these institutions are in fact eligible for inclusion. 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.