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Cabinet approves three extra weeks of paid leave for parents of children born after 1 November 2019
Parents will now be entitled to take five weeks of Parent’s Leave after their child is born or adopted, instead of the two weeks that were previously available.
Final report of Commission into Mother and Baby Homes to be published in January
The report will be published on the week of 11 January, Minister Roderic O’Gorman has confirmed.
'The country is sick of things being brushed under the carpet': What could a national archive on abuse look like?
Survivors want Ireland to face up to its past – but there are different views on the best way to do this.
Taoiseach not anticipating 'obstacles or barriers' to publishing Mother and Baby Home report
Q&A: Why was the Commission into Mother and Baby Homes set up and what did it examine?
Minister ‘determined’ State does right by mother and baby home survivors
The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes submitted its final report last Friday after five years of work.
Commission submits Mother and Baby Homes report to minister
The government has said it is committed to publishing the report as soon as possible.
Q&A: Why was the Commission into Mother and Baby Homes set up and what did it examine?
The commission is due to submit its final report today, over five years after it was set up.
Government to set up archive of records related to institutional trauma in 20th century
The government released a statement about the Mother and Baby Homes this evening.
Never the intention that mother and baby home legislation would cause 'such anxiety and anger', says minister
Cabinet is expected to discuss the fallout from the controversy over the handling of legislation which was passed last week.
Legal advice is that GDPR is 'prohibited' by 2004 Act on Mother and Baby Homes Commission - Department
The minister has defended the legislation but said he regrets poorly communicating what it intends to do.
Q&A: What is the mother and baby home legislation passed in the Oireachtas this week?
The Bill allows the transfer of a database of 60,000 records compiled by the commission to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency.
'The beatings were regular and we worked until our fingers bled': My childhood in an industrial school
Mary Harney shares her personal story on a day where the fate of records of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was debated on the Dáil floor.
Dáil passes the Government's Mother and Baby Homes Bill
Opposition TDs had drafted amendments based on the requests of survivors and human rights experts.
'When your mother cried during labour, she was paying for her sins': Stories of mother and baby home survivors read into Dáil record
Powerful testimonies of survivors from mother and baby homes were read out in the Dáil last night.
Children’s Minister to re-examine 30-year seal on mother and baby homes records
The remaining records would be sealed for 30 years under a 2004 Act.
Review finds that the average cost of delivering childcare across all services in Ireland is €4.14 per hour
The review was undertaken by Crowe in association with Apteligen in 2018.
'The nuns sent me away with your child in a wheelbarrow': Powerful speeches in debate on mother and baby homes
Senators are debating legislation related to records compiled by the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes.
Senators express 'serious concern' that mother and baby home records will be sealed for 30 years
The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes is due to submit its final report later this month.
Debunked: Three false claims about Minister for Children Roderic O'Gorman
An image containing three misleading claims about the Green Party TD has been circulating online.
'Mould, fire hazards and damp' identified at Direct Provision centres as new Minister aims for independent inspections
No inspections of centres have taken place since late March due to Covid-19.
Children's Minister accepts apology from John Connors who says he was 'politically naive'
Connors was part of a campaign that sought to have Roderic O’Gorman resign.
Children's minister: Eamon Ryan's Dáil snooze 'a moment of human frailty'
Footage of Ryan asleep in the Convention Centre last night has gone viral.
'We'll have to deal with what the far-right say': Minister Roderic O'Gorman on childcare, social media and ending Direct Provision
O’Gorman sat down with TheJournal.ie as he take the reins of the children’s ministry.
Minister for Children says 85% of creches to re-open after 'inaccurate' information provided to Dáil
Earlier, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar had told the Dáil that just 60% of childcare providers would be re-opening.
Children's minister rejects 'homophobic' online claims linking him to comments about paedophilia
Roderic O’Gorman criticised the claims made on social media in recent days.
Why this councillor was canvassing for Trevor Sargent... when he was 10
Roderic O’Gorman’s love for the Greens goes all the way back to canvassing with Trevor Sargent in 1992.
A government department got this Green Party councillor's name hopelessly wrong
“Roderic Broderick”
Here's who is in the running for the by-election after Patrick Nulty's resignation
These are the runners and riders after the shock resignation of Patrick Nulty at the weekend.
Leinster House is 'unnatural' - Gilmore
Speaking at a conference in Dublin this afternoon on how to elect more women, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore compared Leinster House to a boarding school for its lack of gender balance.
Green Party: We want to double party membership by 2016
The party, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in Irish politics today, has unveiled its plan for rebuilding the party.
Column: This is a difficult time for the Greens - but we have reasons for optimism
The Green Party has a lot of work to do to regain the trust of voters – but Irish politics needs our voice, writes new Chairperson of the party Roderic O’Gorman.
We must rebuild trust with voters – Green Party
In an article for TheJournal.ie, incoming Chairperson Roderic O’Gorman says that the party is ‘optimistic’ about the future – but there is a ‘difficult road ahead’.
A farmer, a teacher and JFK: meet the Dublin West by-election candidates
A total of 13 candidates are running for the seat vacated by the death of Brian Lenihan. TheJournal.ie runs the rule over all of them…
13 names in the running for Dublin West by-election
Six non-party candidates line up against seven from established parties, in the by-election to fill Brian Lenihan’s old seat.
First candidates named in Dublin West by-election
The election is eight weeks away, but we already have a few candidates – though larger parties are yet to name theirs.