# Roderic O'Gorman

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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.

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Dec 8th 2020, 5:06 PM

# Roderic O'Gorman

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.

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Dec 3rd 2020, 11:52 AM

# national archive

'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.

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Nov 5th 2020, 12:05 AM

# Roderic O'Gorman

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.

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Nov 3rd 2020, 6:49 PM

Commission submits Mother and Baby Homes report to minister

The government has said it is committed to publishing the report as soon as possible.

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Oct 30th 2020, 8:03 PM

# Explainer

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.

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Oct 30th 2020, 4:20 PM

# Cabinet Meeting

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.

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Oct 28th 2020, 8:11 PM

# Cabinet

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.

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Oct 28th 2020, 1:53 PM

# Database

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.

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Oct 23rd 2020, 10:15 PM

# Sealed

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.

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Oct 23rd 2020, 6:04 PM

# Industrial School

'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.

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Oct 22nd 2020, 7:30 PM

# equality minister

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.

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Oct 22nd 2020, 7:00 PM

# Commission

'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.

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Oct 22nd 2020, 9:30 AM

# Dáil Debate

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.

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Oct 21st 2020, 10:14 PM

# Childcare

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.

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Oct 19th 2020, 3:30 PM

# Seanad

'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.

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Oct 16th 2020, 5:29 PM

# Commission

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.

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Oct 14th 2020, 4:41 PM

# debunked

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.

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Aug 28th 2020, 4:25 PM

# INspections

'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.

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Jul 25th 2020, 12:05 AM

# Campaign

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.

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Jul 20th 2020, 3:05 PM

# slumber party

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.

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Jul 17th 2020, 1:20 PM

# Interview

'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.

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Jul 15th 2020, 12:05 AM

# Roderic O'Gorman

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.

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Jul 9th 2020, 6:15 PM

# Roderic O'Gorman

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.

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Jul 6th 2020, 12:40 PM

# Green obsession

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.

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Mar 28th 2015, 10:00 AM

A government department got this Green Party councillor's name hopelessly wrong

“Roderic Broderick”

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Oct 31st 2014, 6:35 PM

# Dublin West

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.

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Mar 24th 2014, 8:29 AM

# Women in Politics

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.

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Jan 20th 2012, 5:56 PM

# Greens

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.

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Dec 11th 2011, 5:15 PM

Voices

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.

Nov 25th 2011, 7:30 AM

# Greens

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’.

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Nov 25th 2011, 7:25 AM