John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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Question 223: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason there was no practice of regulatory inspections carried out at a home (details supplied) in Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27245/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The Department of Education and Science was not responsible for placing people in this home and therefore had no regulatory function to exercise at the home.

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 224: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if hospitals will be included in the promised legislation to be brought before Dáil Éireann in relation to the redress board in order that persons will have redress to hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27246/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 provides a statutory scheme of financial redress for persons who, as children, were abused while in residential institutional care for which the State had a regulatory or supervisory responsibility.

The scheme applies in respect of institutions specified in the Schedule to the Act. Section 4 of the Act provides that the Minister for Education and Science may, by order, provide for the insertion in the Schedule of any industrial school, reformatory school, orphanage, children's home, special school which was established for the purpose of providing education services to children with a physical or intellectual disability or a hospital providing medical or psychiatric services to people with a physical or mental disability or mental illness in which children were placed and resident and in respect of which a public body had a regulatory or inspection function.

Since the enactment of the legislation, my Department has been contacted by individuals and or solicitors with regard to various institutions not specified in the Schedule. Following consideration of the matter and consultation with relevant public bodies, I signed an order on 9 November 2004 which provided for the inclusion of 13 additional institutions in the Schedule. A further order was made on 1 July 2005 adding three institutions to the Schedule.

The question of including additional institutions has now been fully considered by my Department in consultation with relevant Departments and it is not proposed to add any further institutions or hospitals to the Schedule at this point.