IRELAND
Journal
THE SHEER NUMBER of registered maternity homes presents a “difficulty” for the Commission of Inquiry tasked with investigating mother and baby homes.
Core group
In an inter-departmental report published today into what the government knows about these institutions, it lists the “core group” of Mother and Baby Homes as:
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Source: Report of the Inter-Departmental Group on Mother and Baby Homes via Department of Children and Youth Affairs
However, the Commission have been asked to include a wide range of institutions within their scope of their inquiry.
The institutions come under the what were known as registered maternity homes (Registration of Maternity Homes Act, 1934). However, while many of the homes catered for unmarried mothers, their function was not solely confined to that function.
Under the Maternity Homes Act 1934 every local authority in Ireland had to register the maternity homes in the county with the Department of Health.
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