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# mbh

Last year
2022
# review scrapped
Mother and Baby Homes: Some consequences - like testimonies - are more important than others
Nearly two years after the Commission of Investigation published its final report, survivors are still being ignored, Órla Ryan writes.
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Oct 8th 2022, 8:30 AM
# Redress
6-month rule and legal waiver must be scrapped from Mother & Baby Home redress plan, committee says
The Children’s Committee also said the relevant religious congregations “must contribute significant finances to fund the scheme”.
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Jul 12th 2022, 9:02 PM
# Redress
'People are dying before they get justice': Another member leaves Mother and Baby Home forum
Conrad Bryan said survivors are not being listened to when it comes to redress, so he’s taking matters into his own hands
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Apr 15th 2022, 7:00 AM
# Coroner
Burials Bill: New law will allow for Tuam mother and baby home and other sites to be excavated
The restriction on the jurisdiction of the coroner has been removed entirely from the legislation.
The legislation will allow the excavation, recovery and analysis of remains at the site of the former mother and baby institutions
The restriction on the jurisdiction of the coroner has been removed entirely from the Bill
Catherine Corless said today is "a good day", Órla Ryan reports
Burials Bill will be published today, paving the way for Tuam site to finally be excavated
'I'll protest until I die': Call for 'forgotten' boarded out children to be given redress
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Feb 22nd 2022, 4:25 PM
# Cabinet
Burials Bill will be published today, paving the way for Tuam site to finally be excavated
Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman will bring the draft legislation to Cabinet this morning.
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Feb 22nd 2022, 6:00 AM
# Tuam
Long-awaited Burials Bill to be published next week
If the legislation passes in the coming months, the site of the former mother and baby institution in Tuam may finally be excavated.
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Feb 18th 2022, 2:58 PM
# mother and baby homes
'I'll protest until I die': Call for 'forgotten' boarded out children to be given redress
Survivors say they will keep protesting until the scheme is changed.
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Jan 20th 2022, 12:21 PM
# New Law
Adopted people to get access to their birth certs and other records under new legislation
Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman said the Bill represents “a massive step forward” but campaigners have criticised elements of the legislation.
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Jan 12th 2022, 4:30 PM
# New Law
Adopted people will no longer have to attend mandatory information session when seeking records
The long-awaited Birth Information and Tracing Bill will be published today.
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Jan 12th 2022, 6:30 AM
# Vaccine Trials
Mother told daughter would 'get a needle in her arm every day' until she signed adoption papers
Sally McAndrew says nuns threatened to put her in a vaccine trial when her mother put off signing her adoption papers.
Sally McAndrew says nuns threatened to put her in a vaccine trial when her mother put off signing her adoption papers
'Every day you don’t sign, your daughter is getting a needle in her arm and will be screaming in pain'
Sally says her biological father received her home address when he paid £5,000 to nuns, Órla Ryan reports
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Jan 12th 2022, 12:05 AM
# FOI
Mother & Baby Homes: Just 40 survivors get health files amid row over GPs signing off on requests
The majority of survivors, 31, received the records via Freedom of Information requests, not GDPR.
Only 40 survivors have received their medical files to date from the Department of Children, Órla Ryan reports
The majority of survivors received the records via Freedom of Information requests, rather than through GDPR
Just 10 people got their records after a GP signed off on the process, The Journal can reveal
Survivors consider legal action to get health records amid 'bizarre' row with department
Department 'in breach of EU law' unless it gives health records to Mother and Baby Home survivors
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Jan 9th 2022, 12:05 AM
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# Commission
Taoiseach rules out reopening redress scheme for mother and baby home survivors
A High Court ruling that found the Commission of Investigation acted unlawfully by denying fair procedure to survivors prompted calls for a review.
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Dec 31st 2021, 10:01 AM
# High Court
Mother and Baby Homes: Philomena Lee and Mary Harney cases back before High Court today
The women want certain elements of the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes quashed.
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Dec 17th 2021, 6:00 AM
# Netherlands
'My mother didn't want people to know I existed': One woman's mission to find her identity
The woman who set up a register to reconnect people who passed through the Mother and Baby Home system in the Netherlands wants to share her knowledge with Ireland.
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Dec 11th 2021, 8:00 PM