Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 341: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 396 of 29 September 2004, her timetable for bringing the order before Dáil Éireann; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23537/04]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I can confirm that, in accordance with section 4 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002, a draft of the order necessary to add the 13 institutions, for which Government approval was recently received, to the Schedule to the Act has now been laid before each of the Houses of the Oireachtas. I understand that prior to the Houses of the Oireachtas discussing or approving the draft Order, the matter must first be referred to the Joint Committee on Education and Science for its consideration.

In the circumstances it is not possible to give a definitive timescale by which date the draft order would be approved but I expect that it will occur in the near future.