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Tuesday 27 October 2020
President Michael D Higgins yesterday signed the Bill into law.
The minister has defended the legislation but said he regrets poorly communicating what it intends to do.
The Bill allows the transfer of a database of 60,000 records compiled by the commission to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency.
Writer Fionn Davenport says the government’s rushing through of legislation last night condemns survivors of mother and baby homes to 30 more years of darkness.
Mary Harney shares her personal story on a day where the fate of records of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was debated on the Dáil floor.
Opposition TDs had drafted amendments based on the requests of survivors and human rights experts.
Powerful testimonies of survivors from mother and baby homes were read out in the Dáil last night.
The remaining records would be sealed for 30 years under a 2004 Act.
Lecturer Maeve O’Rourke analyses the government’s nine main arguments in relation to the Bill.
Senators are debating legislation related to records compiled by the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes.
The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes is due to submit its final report later this month.
Advocates and survivors of mother and baby homes have been outraged at the government’s handling of legislation passed in the Dáil last night.
Advocacy groups can apply for up to €2,500 in funding per event.
An unpublished report has found that mixed-race children were routinely withheld for adoption and some children’s skin colour was listed as a “defect”.
The report was due to be submitted by the commission this month.
The report was submitted and discussed in Cabinet yesterday.
Between 1925 and 1960, 796 children died at the Tuam mother and baby home.
A new book seeks to highlight how much this period in Irish history still impacts on people today.
He called on the Church to avoid returning to attitudes it had shown in the past.
The commission said the affidavit from the congregation that ran the mother and baby home was “speculative, inaccurate and misleading”.
The report states that most people will find the arrangements made for these burials “distasteful at a minimum”.
But the forum of former residents of these institutions that made recommendations are frustrated the government won’t publish its full report.
The Commission of Investigation will not be issuing its final report this year.
Minister Katherine Zappone will deliver a keynote speech at the event which is exploring adoption and institutional abuses.
A new report on mother and baby homes has recommended the State give those affected a statutory right to access files.
The pope was “not clear” on the issues during Saturday’s meeting, Collins said.
A collaborative forum for former residents of Mother and Baby Homes has been announced.
The name of a mother who died in childbirth was also added to one of the monuments.
Survivor Peter Mulryan was born in the Tuam mother and baby home in Galway and lived in the institute for four and half years.
The commission has asked for an year extension to its deadline to publish its full findings.
Her research led to the discovery of human remains at the site of a former mother and baby home in Tuam.
Catherine Corless is calling for a full investigation into a former Sisters of Mercy orphanage in Galway.
Councillor Francis Timmons says that survivors deserve answers on vaccines trials at mother and baby homes.
Playwright Noelle Brown, who was born in a mother and baby home, has written a play about her search for her birth mother.
Survivors of the Magdalene Laundries gathered outside the Dáil yesterday calling for a truth commission into ALL homes around the country.
“Institutional Ireland” is still failing survivors of residential institutions, writes Conrad Bryan.
Some 474 unclaimed infant remains were transferred from mother and baby homes to universities from 1940 to 1965.
Deirdre Wadding says her time in the Cork mother and baby home in 1981 has haunted her ever since.
It is alleged that 800 babies are buried at the site of the Mother and Baby Home in Galway.
The commission has been granted an extension to the time frame for the publication of two of the three reports it is preparing.
LIKE ALMOST EVERYTHING this year, Halloween in 2020 will be a bit different from usual.
Large scale fancy-dress parties shouldn’t be happening under Level 5.
One thing we can still do, however, is watch some horror films.
There’s plenty to choose from ranging between the child-friendly to the very scary ones available on streaming platforms and set to be shown on TV in the coming days.
So, this morning we’re asking you: Do you plan to watch some horror films this Halloween?
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