Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad
Dail Éireann — 2023-07-05
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Roderic O'Gorman (GP), Dublin West

I will respond to the Deputy's point on the concluding year. To reaffirm what I said at the outset, this Bill is about keeping the original policy intention of this legislation, which is that 34,000 former residents of these institutions have a right to apply under this scheme. The changes that are being introduced will not reduce the number who may be able to apply under that original policy intent. If there are no records for a person's residence in a mother and baby home or county home institution, we have a provision built into the Bill, early in the process, that such persons can swear affidavit regarding their time in a particular institution.

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Sitting date: 2023-07-05