Analysis: Barrister Seán Beatty says the government's six-month rule around Mother and Baby Homes redress is impossible to justify...
Legislation governing the redress to the survivors of Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland is expected to come before the Dáil for a vote tomorrow night. Under the proposed bill, mothers who spent time in an institution are eligible for redress, but those who spent time in an institution as a baby are not eligible unless they spent more than six months there.
The action plan The government has stated time, time, and time again that the Bill is merely a single aspect of a larger “action plan”. A wide-ranging solution is helpful. But the breadth of a plan cannot paper over cracks created by its lack of depth. Access to information The government relies on a view said to be expressed by survivors who resided as children in institutions that their “overwhelming priority need” was access to information and birth certificates. This has been recited often .
Refined payment bands The Minister has stated that he “improved the overall payments approach by introducing more refined payment bands that will benefit many applicants to the scheme.” This refers to the first proposed time bands for the calculation of payments in the General Scheme of the Bill being as follows: for mothers only, fewer than 3 months and 3–6 months, and for mothers and children, 6–12 months, 1–2 years, 2–3 years, 3–4 years and so on.
Memories and trauma As previously reported: “When asked why some children have been left out of the scheme at a press conference announcing the redress package, the minister yesterday said: ‘I suppose children who were in there less than six months wouldn’t have been aware of their experiences and would have been too young to remember their experiences.’”
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