Mother and babies homes information sealed for 30 years

Access to mother and baby homes redress scheme to be widened (irishtimes.com)

Access to mother and baby homes redress scheme to be widened

Women who stayed less than six months and those resident after 1974 set to be includedAccess to mother and baby homes redress scheme to be widened

Women who stayed less than six months and those resident after 1974 set to be included

Although the Government has indicated it will seek a significant financial contribution from Catholic and Church of Ireland bodies that were involved in running homes, there will be no formal talks with church figures until the scheme is approved by the Cabinet.

Again this was leaked rather than officially announced.

Dr Maeve O'Rourke is using her experience researching Ireland's mother and baby homes and the commission/report to ensure that Northern Ireland does it right.

Mother-and-baby homes: Panel backs public inquiry - BBC News

The Truth Recovery Design Panel recommends:

• Urgent appointment of a non-statutory independent panel of experts, including those with personal experience
• Legislation to appoint a statutory public inquiry
• New legislation to secure access to records for survivors and their families
• Immediate redress payments from the beginning of the investigation

The panel, along with victims and survivors, called on "all state, religious and other institutions, agencies, organisations and individuals complicit in the processes of institutionalisation and forced labour, family separation and adoption to act without delay in issuing unqualified apologies".

They said that they should clearly state their role, "accept responsibility for harms done; demonstrate sincerity in their apology; and demonstrate the safeguards now in place to ensure there will be no repetition of the inhumanity and suffering to which they contributed".

Dr O'Rourke said that any future investigation must be accessible to everyone involved, in particular those with disabilities.

"The key priorities raised by survivors and the relatives are that funding and resources should be sufficient to ensure effective and sustainable implementation of all the panel's recommendations; that the human rights of survivors and relatives are central to the recommendations' implementation; that all of the measures recommended must ensure full access for victims, survivors and relatives of the deceased to information," she said.

It's the RCC causing and coordinating all of this. FF/FG are just tools.

Well deserved award, she was on rte radio recently talking about her book.

Will the religious staff of these homes be chased until their deaths like those working in the Nazi death camps? If not why bother doing any additional investigations whatsover?

The Missing Children is on at 10:15pm tonight on RTE 1

And especially the gutless men, who raped and impregnated young woman, and then ran away.

Whatever the reason, it doesn't excuse the treatment within the homes. The horrors.

"Families and the society"? Families and the society were besieged by the church's power, everyone was afraid of the church, afraid they'd go to hell, afraid God wouldn't love them. They handed over every last penny to the church for salvation. The church is 100% to blame for the atrocities of the church. The church groomed society and should be held accountable. Thankfully they were too stupid to see what'd happen when they educated us beyond reading and writing.

Yet some families didn't send their daughters, eg Peggy McCarthy (ref) - and I know others by name, too, who stood by their abused children.

How come some families managed, and others didn't.

I didn't watch the entire documentary, but the parts I watched were beyond grim. Malnourished children, virtually starving to death, and I've no doubt malnourishment was behind a lot of the deaths.

The place sounded like a concentration camp, its hard to find any other way to describe it.

Evil masquerading as "religion" once again.

Feels like you could get away with anything in this country if you had "religious" in the title of your organisation up to and including running a concentration type operation.

And there are still people who wonder how someone can have a moral compass without religious beliefs.

I'd like to propose the next constitutional referendum should be about removing any and all references to the church and it's 'special place'.

Rather embarrasing to have an institution of sexual predators and kiddie fiddlers having their role protected in your constitution.

The referendum on removing the special position of the RCC from the constitution was in the 60s and passed.

Empty gesture as they continued to be listened to as if they had such s role for decades after

I am astounded that the Bon Secours corporation is so 'untouchable'. Even the commission found it incredulous that they did not know where the missing 859 children at Bessborough were buried. Our state seems incapable of challenging them on it. Would this happen in any other country? 'Good Help' indeed. Irish people seem to accept that they are untouchable as a result of some kind of religious brain washing. How are the Gardai not investigating 859 missing children? It defies logic. Bessborough only closed in 1998 and as Finlay said, nuns usually maintain impeccable records. It's clearly a cover-up.

Who profited from this? Who provided the infrastructure? Who manipulated the legislation (as little as it was?) Who sold the babies abroad?