Written answers
Wednesday, 26 January 2005
Department of Education and Science
Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
9:00 pm
Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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Question 1090: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason, contrary to expectations, that psychiatric hospitals such as St. Ita's, Portrane and St. Luke's, Clonmel were not included in the list of additional institutions to fall within the remit of the Residential Institutions Redress Board under the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 (Additional Institutions) Order 2004; if she proposes to include such institutions at some future date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1181/05]
Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Section 4 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 provides a mechanism whereby additional institutions may be considered for inclusion in the Schedule to the Act. Since the enactment of the legislation my Department has received correspondence from both individuals and survivor groups identifying a number of additional institutions that may be eligible for inclusion. Consultations have taken place between my Department and other Departments which may have provided a regulatory function in the operation of these facilities in order to ascertain the case for their inclusion under the Act.
As a result of those consultations and following consideration of the matter, I signed an order on 9 November 2004 which provided for the inclusion of 13 additional institutions to the Schedule. Further consultations are taking place concerning other institutions, including St. Ita's, Portrane and St. Luke's, Clonmel, and I will consider the position of these institutions when this process has been completed.
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