IRELAND
RTE News
The Government should re-examine the exclusion of children who lived without their mothers in the country’s mother and baby homes and county homes from the 2002 Residential Institutions Redress Scheme, the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes has suggested.
As an alternative, it has suggested that Cabinet look again at establishing a similar redress scheme for the homes’ former residents.
The Residential Institutions Redress Scheme was established in 2002 and has since closed.
However in a statement accompanying the publication of the commission’s report, Minister for Children Katherine Zappone said that the Government concluded that it is not possible to implement the commission’s recommendation on redress.
She said Cabinet is conscious that the commission has made no findings to date regarding abuse or neglect, and that it believes it would not be appropriate to deal with the question of redress in advance of the commission reaching any conclusions on these issues.
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