Erin McGreehan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As we have a few minutes I want to go back to the report. One of the recommendations is on the apology. Many people felt left out of the apology. I am not degrading the sincerity of the apology but people felt left out of it because they had not been included in the commission's report. How should the State apologise in the correct way to everybody who has been a victim of this? Ms Ryan-O'Brien said in her contribution that both adoptees and mothers are victims in this story. How does the State apologise for this?

The report speaks about language, terminology and attitudes. How can the State educate the next generations on the othering terms I have come to learn about with regard to adoptees, unconscious bias and misunderstanding of the entire horrible history we have in this country? How do we re-educate our population and make us a mature population with regard to our entire adoptive story, for a want of a better description, in this country? It is very important that we stop othering and be mature in our language, how we engage and in our attitudes.