IRELAND
The Journal

Updated 3:46pm

THE COALITION OF Mother and Baby Home Survivors (CMABS) has said that it “utterly rejects” Minister Katherine Zappone’s refusal to offer redress to survivors of these homes.

Measures of redress were recommended in the second interim report by the Commission on Mother and Baby Homes, published yesterday.

In a statement, the government said it had “carefully examined the Commission’s recommendation regarding redress, and has concluded that it is not possible to implement it”.

Minister Zappone said that she had “consulted in great detail with the Taoiseach, the Attorney General and other Ministers” before this conclusion was reached.

CMABS said this failure to provide redress was “immoral, repulsive and cold-hearted” and all it does is “kick the can down the road waiting for more and more elderly survivors to die”.