Mother and Baby Homes
Dail Éireann — 2024-10-24
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Claire Kerrane (SF), Roscommon-Galway

I may not get the opportunity to raise this again. Coming new into this role, it is only now that I am meeting the survivors. Does the Minister not wonder about Temple Hill? I cannot understand how it can be regarded as a hospital when babies were adopted to America, via newspaper advertisements. How is that a hospital? I cannot understand that at all. I have never heard of a hospital that facilitates the adoption of babies to foreign countries, and does it via newspaper advertisements. There are four institutions in particular but others are also excluded. Will the Minister consider a review of some kind of the institutions that are excluded, given the number of people who have come forward? I again give the example of Temple Hill. Is the Minister not concerned that it is being treated as a hospital when babies were adopted from it via newspaper advertisements?

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Sitting date: 2024-10-24