S.I. No. 924/2005 - Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 (Additional Institutions) Order 2005


I, MARY HANAFIN, Minister for Education and Science in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 4 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 (No. 13 of 2002), and having caused a draft to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas and a resolution approving of the draft having been passed by each such House, hereby order as follows:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 (Additional Institutions) Order 2005.

2.  The Schedule to the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 (No. 13 of 2002) is amended by the insertion of the institutions specified in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE

Mary Immaculate School for the Deaf, Beechpark, Co. Dublin.

“The Boys Home” Grand Canal Street, Dublin 2.

“Racefield”, Upper Mountown Road, Dún Laoghaire.

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GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 1st day of July, 2005.

 

MARY HANAFIN,

Minister for Education and Science.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

Section 4 (1) of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 allows the Minister for Education and Science to make an order to provide for the insertion in the Schedule of the Act any industrial school, reformatory school, orphanage children's home, special school which was established for the purpose of providing education services to children with a physical or intellectual disability or a hospital providing medical or psychiatric services to people with a physical or mental disability or mental illness in which children were placed and resident and in respect of which a public body had a regulatory or inspection function.

An order under this section requires a resolution of each House of the Oireachtas to approve of the draft of the order. Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann each passed a resolution approving the draft order on 30th June 2005.