Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 29 September 2004
438 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for Education and Science the situation regarding a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; if this school has been covered by the Residential Institutions Redress Board Act 2002; if not, if he proposes to have this school included under the said Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21886/04]
View answer604 Ms O’Sullivan asked the Minister for Education and Science if he has finalised the list of institutions to be added to the schedule under the terms of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002; if he will include a school (details supplied) in County Dublin in view of the fact that some of its students were boarders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22821/04]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 438 and 604 together.
A total of 128 institutions are listed on the Schedule to the Residential Institutions Redress Act. The institution referred to by the Deputies is not one of those institutions. Section 4 of the Act enables additional institutions that are identified as reformatory schools, industrial schools, orphanages, children's homes and special schools, in which children were placed and resident and in respect of which a public body had a regulatory or inspection function, to be added to the Schedule.
My Department has requested the Department of Health and Children to ascertain if a public body had a regulatory or inspection function in relation to the institutions referred to by the Deputies, as required under section 4 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002. As no confirmation has been received to date, it would not be possible to consider including this institution in any revised Schedule of the Act at this time.
I can confirm, however, that the Government has recently approved the addition of a further 13 institutions to the Schedule. In accordance with the provisions of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002, I am making arrangements to have a draft of the order necessary to add these 13 institutions to the Schedule laid before each of the Houses of the Oireachtas to seek a resolution of approval.
