IRELAND
RTE News
There has been renewed criticism of the Government’s ongoing failure to include two Protestant institutions in the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes.
Dr Niall Meehan of the Bethany Survivors Group has also criticised the Government’s continuing failure to offer redress to former residents despite including the Dublin home in the commission’s terms of reference.
Dr Meehan made his remarks in the course of an address to a memorial meeting for survivors of the Bethany Home at Mount Jerome Cemetery where 227 children were discovered five years ago buried in unmarked graves.
Welcoming the Government’s inclusion of that Protestant-run home in the Murphy Commission’s terms of reference, Dr Meehan criticised the failure to commit to paying redress.
He said this failure had occurred despite proof of government complicity in death and neglect from the 1920s until the 1950s.
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