Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

This is our only opportunity to discuss these aspects of the redress scheme. The Minister has just said again that this is not the only part of a response to survivors and that there is the birth information and tracing legislation etc. Realistically, however, he knows, I know and everybody watching this meeting knows that that is not redress. Birth information and tracing legislation is allowing people to access information they should have been able to access all along. It is not a redress scheme; it is separate legislation for a reason - because it is not redress.

Will the Minister please outline why people who spent less than six months in an institution are excluded, without referring to other legislation that we all know is not redress?