Written answers
Tuesday, 8 October 2019
Department of Education and Skills
Departmental Schemes
Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) was informed that the review of the ex-gratia scheme is separate from the report that has to be sent back to the Council Of Europe on its implementation of the European Court of Human Rights judgment in a case which may take several months to complete in view of the fact that the ruling on this was that the ex-gratia scheme was not separate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40737/19]
Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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Following on from the ECtHR judgment in the Louise O'Keeffe case, my Department is required to report to the Council of Europe on a biannual basis on the measures it has taken to implement the judgment. The latest Action Plan which will be filed in October provides information on the measures that have been taken to monitor child safeguarding issues. It also provides an update on the determinations reached by Mr Justice Iarfhlaith O’Neill in his assessment of applications for the ex gratiascheme.
The review of the ex gratia scheme is ongoing and the Council of Europe are informed accordingly in the Action Plan.
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