IRELAND
Journal
A NUMBER OF groups representing the women and children that were in mother and baby homes have raised concerns about the interdepartmental report published today.
The new Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, James Reilly published the report examining what the government know about the homes. Judge Yvonne Murphy was also announced as the chairperson of the Commission of Investigation into mother and baby homes.
Omissions
While Paul Redmond, spokesperson for the Coalition of Mother and Baby Homes Survivors (CMABS) said that report published today was “reasonably comprehensive” he said there were some “glaring omissions”.
The citing of some holding centres, but the exclusion of the Temple Hill holding centre was concerning, they said.
He said that only including registered births to calculate figures in the nine mother and baby homes instead of the numbers of expectant mothers “also seriously misrepresents and downplays the numbers involved” he claimed.
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