Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: to allow the Minister for Education and Science to address the Dáil on the matter of Marie Therese O'Loughlin who is on protest outside the House for more than 60 days; to explain why she is satisfied with the response from the Department of Health and Children that it could find no record of a statutory body having a regulatory or inspection role at the Morning Star mother and baby institution, when mothers as young as 14 were referred there and infants were kept there for a protracted period when their mothers were hospitalised; in these circumstances, to explain her continued refusal to include the Morning Star as an institution for redress.

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