634. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when she expects to publish the findings of her Departments review of the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [71765/26]
Topics / Mother and Baby Homes
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsMother and Baby Homes
184 questions from 48 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 13 October 2026.
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181 written, 3 oral
48
TDs have asked
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Independents counted together
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| January 2025 | 9 |
| February 2025 | 21 |
| March 2025 | 35 |
| April 2025 | 16 |
| May 2025 | 7 |
| June 2025 | 4 |
| July 2025 | 11 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 7 |
| October 2025 | 1 |
| November 2025 | 2 |
| December 2025 | 3 |
| January 2026 | 6 |
| February 2026 | 6 |
| March 2026 | 18 |
| April 2026 | 15 |
| May 2026 | 13 |
| June 2026 | 8 |
| July 2026 | 0 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 1 |
| October 2026 | 1 |
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78. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will expand the mother and baby institutions payment scheme to include survivors who are currently excluded. [65898/26]
41. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the review of the mother and baby institutions payment scheme will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47405/26]
627. Deputy William Aird asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will outline any recent or proposed changes to the compensation and redress schemes for persons who, as children, were resident in mother and baby homes and county home institutions; whether the Government is considering revisions to payment levels, eligibility requirements or access to benefits under the scheme; and if she will …
628. Deputy William Aird asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of successful claims made in the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47529/26]
629. Deputy William Aird asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of unsuccessful claims made in the baby institutions payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47530/26]
630. Deputy William Aird asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if consideration will be given to the inclusion of an institution (details supplied) in the baby institutions payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47531/26]
673. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health the time limits in place for counselling services for survivors and former residents of mother and baby institutions via the National Counselling Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46876/26]
794. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there is a specific archaeological report for Bessborough in the archive of the Mother and Baby Home Commission of Inquiry held by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45447/26]
795. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will produce the index to the Mother and Baby Home Commission of Inquiry archive and make it publicly available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45448/26]
852. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether a formal review of the operation of the mother and baby institutions payment scheme is scheduled; and if so, the timeframe for this review. [36967/26]
853. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether institutions (details supplied) will be considered for inclusion in the mother and baby institutions payment scheme as part of any forthcoming review of the scheme. [36968/26]
854. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide details of any judgments, findings, or official assessments relating to institutions (details supplied) and the rationale for their exclusion from the scheme to date. [36969/26]
855. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether all available documentation and survivor testimonies relating to institutions (details supplied) are being examined as part of any review of the operation of the mother and baby institutions payment scheme. [36970/26]
856. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the 180-day residency requirement under the mother and baby institutions payment scheme will be examined as part of any review of the scheme. [36971/26]
857. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if consideration is being given, within any review of the mother and baby institutions payment scheme to waiving or introducing flexibility into the 180-day threshold, particularly in cases where individuals narrowly fall below the requirement but experienced comparable hardship. [36972/26]
890. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if institutions (details supplied) will be included into the redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes. [37120/26]
926. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will publish in full the report on burials at the Bessborough Mother & Baby Home from the Commission's forensic archaeologist in light of the fact that the forensic archaeology reports for the Tuam and Sean Ross Abbey Mother & Baby Homes are provided in the Mother and Baby Commission of Inquiry final and interim reports; …
933. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans in regard to the continued sealing of State records relating to mother and baby homes, and denying survivors and families access to the truth; if she will investigate and excavate burial sites where children are believed to be buried, unseal institutional records and provide survivors and families access to their own informa…
946. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when legislation will be published and introduced, amending the Institutional Burial Act to enable first cousins to provide DNA for matching with babies lost in the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. [34324/26]
947. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the review of the mother and baby institutions payment scheme is running to time; if it is proposed that the review will be debated by Oireachtas, both before and after it is conducted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34325/26]
459. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether St. Clare’s Baby Home, Stamullen, County Meath, is included in the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; the rationale for its inclusion or exclusion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33855/26]
818. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the way in which an individual who worked in a State institution (details supplied) who wishes to make a confidential disclosure should proceed given that the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes no longer exists; if there is an individual within her Department who deals with such issues; and if she will make a statem…
236. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware that there are many Irish mother and baby institutional survivors living in the UK, many of whom have been deterred from making an application to the compensation scheme operated by the Government, due to the risk of losing their benefits payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31263/26]
237. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will liaise with her counterparts in the British Government to legislate Philomena’s Law as soon as possible; if she will work with survivors to ensure compensation is received.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31264/26]