Ms Terri Harrison:

I would like to reach out to every single person involved in this process. I have gone to four Ministers to date begging, asking and hoping but, as Ms Mac Manus said, each Minister starts off anew. Former Minister, James Reilly, had two terms, and I began again with the current Minister, Deputy O’Gorman, recently. All we are asking for is humanity and for everyone concerned to rise above political and religious views and make our children and their mothers and fathers real. We are real humans. I would love to not die before my son knows it is okay for him to come forward and that he does not have to be afraid to do so and hear anything I have to say to him or about what I have left him in my will. My eldest daughter has made sure she will find him and give him every single thing I have put aside for him so he will know his gene pool and about the love I had for him for the nine months he lived beside my heart and in the precious moment I came face to face with him. That is what I want everybody to know. Our children were taken and never ever given. I ask anybody listening to please help us and stop this – how can I put it? – process that just goes on and on and on. Think of Helen living alone at 87 years of age. Her son is 70. Think of her if you can, but make it human thinking, not political or religious, or even related to society. Make us human first.