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The Explainer: What's next for the Mother and Baby Home Commission?
Catriona Crowe and Órla Ryan join us on this week’s podcast.
Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to you
Catriona Crowe and Órla Ryan join us on this week’s podcast.
Catriona Crowe examines the Commission’s report, details its shortcomings and issues, and explains what needs to happen next.
Funchion, who is chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Children, describes her shock over recent issues with the Mother and Baby Home Commission.
She lodged a complaint about the department’s ‘failure to comply with the assurances’ provided to her.
The review was commissioned in 2018 but its publication was delayed.
Survivors of Bessborough mother and baby home have welcomed the news.
Stormont’s leaders are facing calls to establish a public inquiry into the institutions.
The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation released a report on its five-year investigation into the homes earlier this month.
There were emotional contributions by some TDs in the Dáil today.
Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman said that the legislation would have GDPR at the heart of it.
The church said it was complicit ‘as with the rest of society’ in stigmatising unmarried women and their children.
Survivors have campaigned for access to their personal information for years.
The Taoiseach said he is concerned his statement yesterday is being presented in a certain light.
The State’s most senior civil servant is to head up an inquiry into the leaking of Government information.
Roderic O’Gorman has asked planners to read today’s Commision of Investigation’s findings on burials at the former mother and baby home.
Micheál Martin is to give the apology on behalf of the State and wider society.
And what happens to the records now?
The Taoiseach met with survivor and advocacy groups this morning.
Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman is due to receive the report tomorrow.
Cabinet is expected to discuss the fallout from the controversy over the handling of legislation which was passed last week.
Writer Caelainn Hogan has accessed files that give an insight into life at a Donegal mother-and-baby home known as The Castle.
Family members of the 796 babies who died and survivors of the home held a peaceful protest last month.
Survivors and family members of the dead babies gathered at the site today.
That’s according to a confidential letter to a government minister.
The government must first pass legislation allowing it to carry out excavations.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told the Dáil today that he made a private visit to Tuam on his way home from a conference in Galway recently.
A vigil to remember babies who died at the home is being held this afternoon.
How to memorialise the past, as well as what health and well-being supports are needed for former residents will be discussed.
There was only ever one thing to do: excavate the site and DNA test the remains without delay, writes Adrienne Corless.
Galway County Council received 799 written submissions on what to do with the Tuam site where a mass grave was found.
The stone will be unveiled next week.
Visual artist Katie Moore has created a piece based on Catherine Corless’s Tuam Mother and Baby Home discovery.
A team of scientists have contradicted an expert technical group over the remains
Derek Leinster said that he believes that instead, Bethany Home survivors should be given redress before many of them die.
The burials took place between 1922 and 1998.
The report said it would be particularly difficult to identify “commingled remains” and the remains of children under two.
Her research led to the discovery of human remains at the site of a former mother and baby home in Tuam.
Councillor Francis Timmons spoke to TheJournal.ie about his time at Madonna House mother and baby home two years ago.
“There are currently no known comparative sites, nationally or internationally,” said the Department of Children in a statement.
The Coalition of Mother and Baby Home Survivors called it a “shameful decision”.