Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022

Public bill · Government · Presented

Provides a compensation and support scheme for people who lived in certain mother-and-baby or county home institutions in the State, recognising the hardship they experienced. Eligible people can apply for cash payments and free health supports through an enhanced medical card, with extra options for those living outside Ireland, and the scheme includes a process for checking claims, reviewing decisions, and appealing them. It also sets rules on payments, legal waivers, tax treatment, privacy, and the use of official records to verify applicants’ experiences.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to provide, in recognition of the circumstances experienced by certain persons while resident in certain institutions in the State, for the establishment of a scheme to be known as the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme for the purpose of the making of payments and the making available without charge of health services to such persons; to provide for the making by such persons of applications for such payments and services; and to provide for related matters.

Last updated 11 September 2024