Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2023-02-22
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

It is also unfair to characterise the response of the Government as being solely linked to financial compensation. There is much more to what we are doing than that. For example, one of the things we have done is put in place immediate counselling support. That was available on the publication of the commission's final report through the HSE's national counselling service. A State apology was also made by the former Taoiseach, now the Tánaiste, Deputy Micheál Martin, in January 2021. That was significant too.
As I mentioned earlier, one of the main requests and demands from people who were born in mother and baby institutions was that we change our laws so they can have access to their birth certificates-----

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Sitting date: 2023-02-22