Issue featured during meeting of North South Ministerial Council in Dublin, the second in less than four months
Left to right: Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly and First Minister Michelle O'Neill with Taoiseach Simon Harris and Tánaiste Micheál Martin, at Dublin Castle on Friday. Photograph: PressEye/PA Wireexecutive agreed to set up a public inquiry into institutions that existed to house unmarried mothers in Northern Ireland, along with agreeing to make redress payments, potentially to thousands of survivors.
in Dublin Castle, the second in less than four months for a body that has been frequently suspended because of collapses in the Stormont institutions. Supporting the First Minister, Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly said “a number of issues” have arisen since the decision was taken to have a statutory inquiry in Northern Ireland into the homes.
The detail of the issues outstanding was discussed in a meeting in Dublin Castle between the First and Deputy First Ministers and Minister for Integration and Children Roderic O’Gorman. Unlike some previous meetings of the NSMC, the atmosphere during the three hours of talks at Dublin Castle were friendly, and engage, with people “fulsomely co-operating”, to quote Mr Harris.
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