Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 216: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress that has been made in the verification process of additional institutions to be added to the Schedule to the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002; when a list of additional institutions will be brought before Dáil Éireann for approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16593/04]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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Section 4 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 provides 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. Discussions have taken place between my Department and other Departments that may have provided a regulatory or inspection function in the operation of these facilities to ascertain whether these institutions are eligible for inclusion. A number of institutions have been identified for inclusion and I intend bringing this matter to Government for its consideration shortly.