Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)
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Question 584: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the basis on which a home (details supplied) was included in the second schedule of institutions under the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5599/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Section 4 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 provides that for an institution to be considered for inclusion in the Schedule to the Act, it must be an industrial school, a reformatory school, an orphanage, a children's home, a special school for children with a physical or intellectual disability or a hospital providing medical or psychiatric services for people with a physical or mental disability or mental illness. It must also be one in which children were placed and resident and in respect of which a public body had a regulatory or inspection function.

Inquiries were made by my Department with the Department of Health and Children and other relevant bodies about this institution. Confirmation was received that the institution was subject to inspection by a public body and that it operated as a children's home which, as well as catering for single mothers with their babies, provided care for babies and young children up to the age of four years who were not adopted or fostered. It was on this basis that the institution mentioned was added to the Schedule.