Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 29 September 2004
411 Mr. Haughey asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will amend the Residential Institutions Redress Act to ensure that residents of a hospital (details supplied) in Dublin 3 can claim compensation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21698/04]
Amharc ar fhreagraAt present 128 institutions are listed on the Schedule to the Residential Institutions Redress Act. 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 received correspondence from both individuals and survivor groups identifying a number of additional institutions that may be eligible for inclusion in the Schedule. Discussions have taken place between my Department and other Departments that may have provided a regulatory or inspection function in the operation of these facilities in order to ascertain whether these institutions are in fact eligible for inclusion.
The Department of Health and Children has been in recent contact with my Department confirming that it did not have a regulatory or inspection function with regard to the institution referred to by the Deputy. Therefore, in the circumstances, it is not possible to consider that institution for inclusion on the Schedule of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002.
