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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Sarah Barrett

Mother and baby home survivors reveal hurt on RTE Liveline over exclusion from redress scheme

Legislation for the provision of a mother-and-baby institution redress scheme will return to the Dáil this week.

The bill has been strongly criticised by survivors' groups, who say it unfairly excludes children who spent less than six months in an institution and is creating division among survivors.

On Monday’s episode of RTÉ Liveline, several survivors who were mothers and children who had been adopted from a Mother and Baby home, featured on the show discussing the Mother and Baby Homes redress scheme.

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