Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage Seanad Éireann — 2023-06-14 ============================================================ Roderic O'Gorman (GP), Dublin West In that circumstance, Senator Seery Kearney's point about the use of the affidavit would be valuable in terms of providing additional information where an applicant felt that the cold records did not provide the full context. There would be the opportunity to provide an affidavit to give that additional context to the chief deciding officer in making a determination of eligibility under the scheme. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/seanad/2023-06-14/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:52:00+00:00 Sitting date: 2023-06-14