Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I heard that. It is very important to say they did not just have their children taken from them. By all accounts, what is emerging from the mother and baby homes and what some of us might have known for a while is that these women had their human rights violated in the most disgusting way possible. If we want to talk about morals - Senator Mullen mentioned some sort of moral code - we have to take a good, long, hard look at ourselves and how we treated women down through the decades and generations. Senator Mullen made a reference to something he was doing long before I was around. I suspect long before he knew I was around I was campaigning for women's rights. If his ears are deaf to those arguments, he probably did not.