Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Cairns referred to the issue of redress. We did not base our redress proposals on the commission's report. We did not limit ourselves to the limitations that the commission set out. Indeed, in terms of the action plan and our response we did not limit ourselves to the commission's report. Notwithstanding that there are severe criticisms of some of the findings of the report, which are expressed on the record now, the report is one part of the history of what happened in the mother and baby institutions. As a Government we are trying to respond to elements of that and to respond to the broader issues the survivors have brought to us as well. This is what we are seeking to do around the birth information in the context of the Institutional Burials (Amendment) Bill.