Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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342. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason an applicant (details supplied) was only awarded a standard compensation payment, and not the work-related payment, through the mother and baby home redress scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26884/24]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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While I try to be helpful at all times in the parliamentary process, the Deputy will be aware that I cannot be involved in individual cases and cannot comment on same. That said, I will try to be helpful in general terms. The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme is designed to provide payments and other benefits to people who spent time in any Mother and Baby or County Home Institutions identified by the Commission of Investigation as having a main function of providing sheltered and supervised ante and post-natal facilities to single mothers and their children. One of the Scheme payments is a “work-related payment” which is accessible to mothers who spent more than 90 days in particular named institutions. Those institutions are the County Homes, the Tuam Mother and Baby Home and Sean Ross Abbey. The Commission’s report identified those institutions as requiring mothers to undertake chores and caring responsibilities over and above what occurred in other institutions and which could reasonably be defined as unpaid ‘commercial’ work.In addition to a wide range of applicant supports, public representatives can contact the Payment Scheme Office via a dedicated email address if they are assisting constituents in relation to the Scheme.Applicants to the Scheme also have a right of review, and a subsequent right of appeal, where they are not satisfied with the outcome of their application to the Scheme.