IRELAND
RTE News
The Adoption Rights Alliance has called for the establishment of counselling services for former residents of mother-and-baby homes in tandem with the promised statutory inquiry.
While cautiously welcoming the Government’s commitment to a statutory inquiry, the alliance warned against further delays in providing access to family records and advice on reunions given the age profile of the women who suffered in the homes.
It said the Government should speedily establish regional counselling services.
The Justice for Magdalenes research group has asked for Magdalene laundries to be included in the inquiry’s terms of reference, citing what it called the “huge traffic” between mother-and-baby homes and the laundries.
It said the Government-appointed McAleese investigation into State involvement with the Catholic-run laundries did not retain records received from the religious orders which operated them.
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