# mother-and-baby-homes - Wednesday 11 May, 2022
# State Apology
# State Apology
Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman yesterday issued an apology in the Seanad on behalf of the Government.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Friday 15 April, 2022
# Redress
# Redress
Conrad Bryan said survivors are not being listened to when it comes to redress, so he’s taking matters into his own hands
# mother-and-baby-homes - Tuesday 29 March, 2022
# New Regulations
# New Regulations
New regulations have come into force after months of uncertainty and threats of legal action.
# SITE OF CONSCIENCE
# SITE OF CONSCIENCE
The centre will honour survivors of mother and baby homes, industrial schools, reformatories, Magdalene laundries and related institutions.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Monday 14 March, 2022
# St Patrick's Guild
# St Patrick's Guild
The payments will only apply to people whose illegal adoptions were facilitated by St Patrick’s Guild.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Sunday 6 March, 2022
# Boarded Out
# Boarded Out
“If you don’t want to compensate people for violating their human rights, don’t violate their human rights.”
# mother-and-baby-homes - Monday 28 February, 2022
# Mother And Baby Homes
# Mother And Baby Homes
Over 14,000 girls and women entered mother and baby homes, Magdalene laundries and other institutions between 1922 and 1990.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Tuesday 22 February, 2022
# Coroner
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
# Cabinet
# Cabinet
Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman will bring the draft legislation to Cabinet this morning.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Friday 18 February, 2022
# Tuam
# Tuam
If the legislation passes in the coming months, the site of the former mother and baby institution in Tuam may finally be excavated.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Friday 21 January, 2022
# Adoption
# Adoption
Adoption rights campaigner Claire McGettrick responds to the new Birth Information and Tracing Bill.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Thursday 20 January, 2022
# Mother And Baby Homes
# Mother And Baby Homes
Survivors say they will keep protesting until the scheme is changed.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Wednesday 12 January, 2022
# New Law
# New Law
Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman said the Bill represents “a massive step forward” but campaigners have criticised elements of the legislation.
# Adoption
# Adoption
Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman reacts to the new Birth Information and Tracing Bill launched today.
# New Law
# New Law
The long-awaited Birth Information and Tracing Bill will be published today.
# Vaccine Trials
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
# mother-and-baby-homes - Sunday 9 January, 2022
# FOI
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
# mother-and-baby-homes - Friday 31 December, 2021
# Commission
# Commission
A High Court ruling that found the Commission of Investigation acted unlawfully by denying fair procedure to survivors prompted calls for a review.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Friday 24 December, 2021
# Burials Bill
The site of the former mother and baby home may be excavated five years after a "significant" quantity of human remains were found Survivors, relatives and archaeologists have called for the Tuam site to be excavated urgently, Órla Ryan reports The long-awaited Burials Bill and the Birth Information and Tracing Bill are expected to be published in the next two months
# mother-and-baby-homes - Friday 17 December, 2021
# Philomena Lee
Today's settlement has been described as a "significant victory" for Philomena Lee and Mary Harney, Órla Ryan reports The State has admitted the women are identifiable in the Commission's report and should have been given a right to reply "We’ve been totally vindicated ... This time our voices have been heard in terms of justice," Harney said
# High Court
# High Court
The women want certain elements of the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes quashed.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Saturday 11 December, 2021
# Netherlands
# Netherlands
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.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Thursday 2 December, 2021
# Philomena Lee
# Philomena Lee
Justice Garrett Simons wants to hear more submissions before making a decision in the new year.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Friday 26 November, 2021
# Mother And Baby Homes
# Mother And Baby Homes
Mother and baby home survivor Beth Wallace says no one can suggest those who spent fewer than six months there were not traumatised.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Tuesday 23 November, 2021
# Response To Redress
# Response To Redress
Survivors’ groups gathered at Leinster House today to call for the redress scheme to be amended to better meet the needs of survivors.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Monday 22 November, 2021
# Mother-and-baby Homes
# Mother-and-baby Homes
People who were born in a mother and baby institution but spent less than six months there are excluded from the scheme.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Sunday 21 November, 2021
# Mother-and-baby Homes
The Government's €800 million Mother and Baby Homes redress scheme was unveiled during the week Women say basing compensation on their length of stay in an institution is "absolutely disgraceful" The exclusion of many people born in institutions is a "divide and conquer" strategy, survivors tell Órla Ryan
# mother-and-baby-homes - Thursday 18 November, 2021
# Mother-and-baby Homes
# Mother-and-baby Homes
Ruling in Mother and Baby Home cases could have “very dramatic consequences” on how future commissions operate, High Court told.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Wednesday 17 November, 2021
# Mother And Baby Homes
# Mother And Baby Homes
The women are seeking to have elements of the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes quashed.
# Commission
# Commission
The cases are being brought by high-profile survivors Philomena Lee and Mary Harney.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Tuesday 16 November, 2021
# Mother-and-baby Homes
# Mother-and-baby Homes
The Government unveiled the long-awaited Mother and Baby Home redress scheme earlier today.
# Commission
# Commission
The Cabinet signed off on the details of a long-awaited redress scheme today.
# Compensation
# Compensation
The Cabinet is set to sign off on the details of a long-awaited redress scheme later today.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Monday 15 November, 2021
# Redress
# Redress
The NI Executive is accepting all the recommendations made by an expert panel last month.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Saturday 13 November, 2021
# Adoption
Maria Arbuckle was sent from Armagh to St Patrick's mother and baby home in Dublin in 1981 She spent the next four decades trying to find her son, Paul A Facebook friend request earlier this year changed her life forever, Órla Ryan reports
# mother-and-baby-homes - Friday 12 November, 2021
# Cabinet
# Cabinet
The scheme would include financial payments and an enhanced medical card.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Wednesday 10 November, 2021
# Tuam
# Tuam
The proposed legislation raises “serious concerns in relation to the State’s compliance with its international legal obligations”, the groups note.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Sunday 7 November, 2021
# The Missing Children
Survivors, relatives and archaeologists are calling for the site to be excavated urgently, Órla Ryan reports They want DNA testing carried out to identify the remains of the children buried in Tuam A new documentary explores the search for the truth about what happened to those who disappeared
# mother-and-baby-homes - Wednesday 6 October, 2021
# The North
# The North
The announcement comes after an independent panel recommended a public inquiry.
# High Court
# High Court
Leinster has campaigned for over 20 years for the inclusion of Bethany Home and other Protestant institutions in redress schemes.
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