Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)
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Question 283: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Morning Star Mother and Baby Home was included under the definition of a maternity home in the terms of the registration of Maternity Homes Act 1934; if so, whether there was a power to inspect and regulate same by a public body; if so, whether this information will be conveyed to the Department of Education and Science so that it can be considered for inclusion under the terms of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35629/05]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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There is no available evidence for the inclusion of a Morning Star Mother and Baby Home under the definition of a maternity home within the Registration of Maternity Homes Act 1934 and, therefore, no evidence exists of inspection or regulation in that regard.

The criteria for inclusion of an entity under the Residential Institution Redress Act 2002 are set out under section 4 of that Act, which states that the Minister for Education and Science may provide by order 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 educational 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."