Amendments likely to restrict scope of proposed redress scheme
The grounds of the former mother and baby home in Tuam. Photograph: Paulo Nunes dos Santos/The New York TimesHundreds of thousands of married women who gave birth in county homes could be eligible for payments under legislation going through the Oireachtas, dramatically increasing the cost of the intended redress scheme for residents of mother and baby homes by billions of euros.
Writing in The Irish Times today, historian Michael Dwyer said the Bill “inadvertently makes hundreds of thousands of married women who gave birth in the institutions eligible for redress”. “Under the terms of the redress scheme every one of these women would be eligible for the minimum €5,000 payment – a cost of between €75 million and €100 million to the State. And this is just one institution – there are 43 more to be considered.
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