Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 17 May 2005
356 Mr. Kenny asked the Minister for Education and Science if a residential institution (details supplied) will be brought under the remit of the Residential Institutions Redress Board; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16250/05]
Amharc ar fhreagraSection 4 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 provides that in order for an institution to be placed on the Schedule of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002, the facility must have been subject to inspection or regulation by a public body. A total of 128 institutions are listed on the original Schedule to the Act and, in November 2004, I signed an order for a further 13 institutions to be added to the Schedule.
Officials of my Department sought the advice of the Department of Health and Children about the institution referred to by the Deputy in order that records held at that Department and its agencies could be examined. My Department has received a response from the Department of Health and Children stating that no files have been located that indicate that a public body had any regulatory or inspection function in the case of that institution. As a consequence, it is not possible to place this facility on the Schedule. Should further information be located that establishes that this institution is eligible for consideration, my Department will revisit the matter.
357 Mr. Kenny asked the Minister for Education and Science the list of institutions currently covered by the Residential Institutions Redress Board; the institutions which were formally operated by the Church of Ireland authorities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16251/05]
Amharc ar fhreagraSection 4 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 provides that in order for an institution to be placed on the Schedule of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002, the facility must have been subject to inspection or regulation by a public body. A total of 128 institutions are listed on the original Schedule to the Act and, in November 2004, I signed an order for a further 13 institutions to be added to the Schedule. I have made arrangements for a list of the institutions concerned to be forwarded directly to the Deputy.
As the religious ethos of an institution was not part of the criteria prescribed under section 4 of the Act, my Department did not require full details of the religious ethos of all the institutions listed. However, from records held in my Department, there are five institutions listed as having had a Protestant ethos and I am arranging for relevant details to be also forwarded to the Deputy.
