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Open Adoption Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2014): Frank Feighan: ...working with the Adoption Authority in advance of an adoption or afterwards. I welcome this. We saw the film "Philomena", which told the harrowing story of Philomena Lee. Coming in the wake of the Magdalen laundries, it was horrific and there was a huge public outcry. Since the foundation of the State, over 100,000 children were either adopted or passed through the various agencies....
Bethany Home: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Dec 2013): Frank Feighan: ...the survivors dispute this. The Bethany Home was closed in 1972, which was a different time. It was a home for so-called "fallen women" and was not as harsh a regime as that suffered by women in the Magdalen laundries. However, it was an Irish solution to an Irish problem, where women could hide their shame and deliver babies away from public view. We have come through difficult...

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