# redress - 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.
# redress - 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
# redress - Tuesday 30 November, 2021
# Crumbling Blocks
# Crumbling Blocks
The scheme will cover an estimated 7,500 homes at a total cost of €2.2 billion.
# redress - 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.
# redress - 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.
# redress - 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
# redress - 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.
# redress - Monday 15 November, 2021
# Redress
# Redress
The NI Executive is accepting all the recommendations made by an expert panel last month.
# redress - Friday 12 November, 2021
# Cabinet
# Cabinet
The scheme would include financial payments and an enhanced medical card.
# redress - Wednesday 6 October, 2021
# High Court
# High Court
Leinster has campaigned for over 20 years for the inclusion of Bethany Home and other Protestant institutions in redress schemes.
# redress - Tuesday 5 October, 2021
# Defective Blocks
# Defective Blocks
Minister Simon Coveney said however that it will not be ready before the Budget.
# redress - Sunday 3 October, 2021
# Mica
# Mica
A draft report did not recommend 100% redress, as demanded by campaigners.
# redress - Friday 1 October, 2021
# Mica
The report says the total cost of the remediation scheme could be €3.2 billion. Homeowners who have to completely demolish and rebuild their homes would not necessarily get a 100% grant. Other remediation works would receive a 100% grant and all caps should be increased, the report says. The report is to be considered by the minister before he brings proposals to Cabinet.
# redress - Thursday 30 September, 2021
# Redress
# Redress
Campaigners are seeking 100% redress for damage to their homes.
# redress - Tuesday 21 September, 2021
# Defective Blocks
# Defective Blocks
Affected homeowners are seeking 100% of the costs associated with fixing their homes.
# redress - Saturday 18 September, 2021
# Magdalene Laundries
# Magdalene Laundries
A new book explores Magdalene laundries and the State’s response to institutional abuse.
# redress - Saturday 19 June, 2021
# Redress
It's been a long road for impacted homeowners and they see no end in sight, Michelle Hennessy reports. Families who spoke to The Journal said they cannot even afford the initial mica test required to apply for the government's grant scheme. They say years of being ignored by government has intensified the stress they are already feeling living in homes that are falling down around them.
# redress - Tuesday 15 June, 2021
# Explainer
# Explainer
Homeowners are protesting in Dublin’s city centre today.
# redress - Wednesday 28 April, 2021
# Meeting
# Meeting
Representatives from the pharmaceutical giant met with Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman today.
# redress - Tuesday 6 April, 2021
# Adoption
# Adoption
Adopted people have called for long-awaited tracing and information legislation to be published as a matter of urgency.
# redress - Sunday 4 April, 2021
# Redress
# Redress
Some survivors have also called on the government to take legal action against the religious orders who ran the institutions if they refuse to pay financial compensation.
# redress - Thursday 25 March, 2021
# Email Addresses
# Email Addresses
Those affected by the breach are “deeply upset and distressed” by the sharing of their email addresses without their consent.
# Bethany Home
# Bethany Home
Leinster, who was born in Bethany Home in Dublin in 1941, has campaigned for redress for over 20 years.
# redress - Wednesday 24 March, 2021
# Mother And Baby
# Mother And Baby
The Irish Council of Civil Liberties has written a letter to the UN Special Rapporteur.
# redress - Wednesday 17 March, 2021
# OAK Consulting
# OAK Consulting
The government has hired OAK Consulting to oversee the consultation process at a cost of €20,000.
# redress - Wednesday 10 March, 2021
# Birth Certs
# Birth Certs
The minister has also launched a consultation process for a redress scheme for survivors of Mother And Baby Homes.
# redress - Sunday 31 January, 2021
# Commission
# Commission
Survivors say they were not informed their testimony would be destroyed.
# redress - Saturday 23 January, 2021
# Child Welfare
# Child Welfare
Academic Máiréad Enright takes a forensic look at the Mother & Baby Home report and shares her concerns with its approach to redress.
# redress - Thursday 21 January, 2021
# Your Say
# Your Say
Senator Rónán Mullen said the money could be collected in addition to Church and State contributions to a redress scheme.
# redress - Sunday 17 January, 2021
# Redress
# Redress
Archbishop Eamon Martin said that the church was “expected to intervene” when society “banished” mothers.
# redress - Wednesday 13 January, 2021
# State Apology
The full report from the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation was released yesterday. The Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Children's Minister issued statements. "The State failed you, the mothers and children in these homes," Micheál Martin said.
# redress - Tuesday 12 January, 2021
# Final Report
Document details the experiences of women and children who lived in 14 mother and baby homes and four county homes. Commission recommends redress, services such as counselling and enhanced medical cards. Taoiseach to give State apology over mother and baby homes in the Dáil tomorrow.
# Mary Harney
# Mary Harney
The long-awaited report will be published today – and survivors want “urgent” action on foot of it.
# redress - Wednesday 3 June, 2020
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
Victims Commissioner Judith Thompson said the treatment of victims by the authorities was “cruel, callous and insulting”.
# redress - Wednesday 4 March, 2020
# Michael O'brien
# Michael O'brien
Michael O’Brien created one of the most powerful moments in Irish television, when he passionately told his story on RTÉ in 2009.
# redress - Tuesday 4 February, 2020
# Banks
# Banks
The Central Bank said last year that lenders had already paid €683 million in redress to impacted customers.
# redress - Tuesday 26 November, 2019
# Institutional Abuse
# Institutional Abuse
Survivors of institutional abuse spoke candidly about the impact of the bill on them.
# redress - Friday 6 September, 2019
# Caranua
# Caranua
The majority of the money will go to the fund, while €429,000 is to be paid to the National Children’s Hospital.
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