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Residential Institutions

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 2 June 2022

Thursday, 2 June 2022

Ceisteanna (268)

Catherine Connolly

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268. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the status of the Retention of Records Bill 2019; her plans for the archives of the Ryan Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, the Residential Institutions Redress Board and the Residential Institutions Redress Review Committee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28562/22]

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The main purpose of the Retention of Records Bill 2019 was to ensure the preservation of the records of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, the Residential Institutions Redress Board and the Residential Institutions Review Committee which may otherwise, in accordance with the relevant legislation, be required to be destroyed upon the dissolution of those bodies. The Bill lapsed with the dissolution of the last Dáil in January 2020.

As the Deputy will be aware, on 29 March last Government approved proposals for a National Centre for Research and Remembrance which will stand as a National Memorial to honour all those who were resident in industrial schools, reformatories, Magdalen Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes and related institutions.

As well as a museum and exhibition space and a place for reflection and remembrance, the National Centre will include a research centre and central repository of records related to institutional trauma in the 20th century, which will form part of the National Archives.  It is envisaged that the future of the records of the redress bodies will be considered in that context.

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