Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2023-06-14
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Roderic O'Gorman (GP), Dublin West

If a woman went to the Mayo county home, she will be included in this scheme. If a woman gave birth in a hospital located on the same site at any time subsequent to that, and I do not know the geography there, this scheme recognises that in many of these places, a separate maternity service was created, set up, and often availed of by the general public. It is recognising that is not the experience for which this particular scheme was designed. It was designed for those who, as Senator Seery Kearney described, were given what was almost a sentence to go to the county home with all that entailed.

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Sitting date: 2023-06-14