Mother and Baby Homes

127. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of applications made to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme to date in 2026; the number processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28748/26]

663. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality in relation to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme, the mechanisms that are in place, in relation to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme, to ensure fairness is applied in the case whereby siblings were separated and one was moved to and continues to live in another country; if all siblings entit…

703. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total amount spent since January 2024 on a service (details supplied) the third party contracted external provider of phone and application services for the mother and baby payments scheme [28560/26]

704. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of new applicants per week since January 2026 to the mother and baby redress scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28561/26]

705. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of eligible applicants per institution listed for redress; and the number of actual applicants per institution to date. [28562/26]

706. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the percentage take up of applicants for Protestant and Catholic institutions for the mother and baby redress scheme. [28563/26]

707. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the percentage for the take up of applicants for Protestant as compared to Catholic institutions, for those institutions currently eligible, for the mother and baby institutional redress scheme. [28578/26]

708. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the Government will review the exclusion of those children who spent less than 180 days in institutions for the mother and baby institutional redress scheme. [28579/26]

709. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the Government will introduce a financial redress scheme for children boarded out via all institutional settings. [28581/26]

715. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health when the Government will set up the patient liaison service (health supports) for survivors of institutional abuse as committed to in the Department of Children, Disability and Equality Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby County Home Institutions Third Implementation Report (details supplied). [28582/26]

2569. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will report on efforts to track and trace to inform relatives of children lost in the Bessboro Mother And Baby Home records found related to tandem burials for St Finbarr's hospital in St. Michael's cemetery associated with the "home" that operated until 1998 and mentioned in the Commission's report; and her p…

427. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current status of Recommendation 38 of the Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, which proposed the creation of a number of research scholarships in memory of the children who died in these institutions; whether an application process for these scholarships has begun or is pl…

508. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if people who spent time as a baby in an industrial school are entitled to the same compensation as people who spent time in a mother and baby home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21811/26]

389. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will acknowledge that while it has been stated that legislation prevents the release of records relating to mother and baby homes, the relevant legislation was previously amended through the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters) Records Act 2020 to allow adopted persons…

390. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality given that the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters) Records Act 2020 was previously amended to allow adopted persons and mothers access to information relating to themselves, if she accepts that this demonstrates that the legislative framework governing the archive can be ame…

391. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has received legal advice indicating that the wider mother and baby homes archive cannot be released even where personal data and identifying information are redacted; if she will outline the legal basis for the continued sealing of the archive for 30 years; if she will confirm whether alternati…

1475. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will report on his meetings with survivor groups since his intervention at the 2025 Bessborough Commemoration; her plans to meet with other survivor groups; and if she has made representations to Cork City Council in respect of the Bessborough site, and public acquisition of the site, in particular. [20768/26]

1476. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been brought to the proposed commercial development at the former Bessborough mother and baby home site in Cork; if she has engaged with the owners or Cork City Council regarding the future of the site; and if she will outline the steps the Government is taking to ensure the site is treated …

1477. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if consideration has been given to the preservation, memorialisation, or public commemoration of the Bessborough site, in consultation with survivors and advocacy groups; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20866/26]

1551. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to reverse the decision to seal the records relating to the mother and baby homes and release them; to fully investigate and, if necessary, excavate the Angels' Plot burial ground at Sean Ross Abbey to find the remains of babies and young girls currently unaccounted for; to reform the redress scheme so survivors…

1571. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to reports that a number of Government Departments are withholding archives from the National Centre for Research and Remembrance for survivors of mother and baby homes; the steps her Department and the Mother and Baby Homes section within her Department has taken to ensure all r…

1579. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality in light of a person (details supplied) suggesting that due to the current mother and baby home redress scheme being so poorly subscribed, there is an opportunity to include survivors who were boarded out and currently remain without financial redress, the measures she will take to address this anomaly; and if she …

1636. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason for the refusal of an application to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme (details supplied); the reason incomplete or deficient historical records are being relied upon as grounds for exclusion despite acknowledged issues with the accuracy of such records; to set out the review or independent …

1642. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if consideration will be given to releasing the records of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, with proper redactions of personal information; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20855/26]

223. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the Government will release the records relating to mother and baby institutions instead of keeping them restricted for up to 30 years. [17276/26]