IRELAND
Irish Independent
Cormac McQuinn
April 12 2017
The government’s decision to not include children from mother and baby homes in a redress scheme has been criticised as “shameful” and “devastating”.
An interim report of the Commission investigating the homes has said that children that lived in the homes without their mothers “have a real cause for grievance”.
It recommends that the government re-examine a decision not to include them in a redress scheme for survivors of institutional abuse.
However, Children Minister Katherine Zappone confirmed that following an examination of the report the government decided that it is not possible to implement the recommendation that unaccompanied children at the homes should have access to a redress scheme.
A survivor of the Protestant Bethany Home in Dublin, Derek Leinster, called for a reversal of the decision which he described as “shameful”.
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