Willie Penrose (Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 460: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the plans her Department has to include other institutions under the schedule of the Redress Act 2002; when they will be so added or included as the deadline for inclusion is December 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23279/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Section 4 (1) of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 enables the Minister for Education and Science to make an order providing for the insertion of additional institutions, in which children were placed and resident, in the schedule of the Act. To be considered for inclusion in the schedule, the institution concerned must have been regulated or inspected by a public body. On 9 November 2004, I signed an order which provided for the inclusion of 13 additional institutions in the schedule.

Further consultations have taken place between my Department and other Departments which may have provided a regulatory or inspection function in the operation of a number of additional institutions in order to ascertain the case for their inclusion under the Act. I propose to add other institutions to the list and a draft order is currently before the Houses of the Oireachtas on this matter.