Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

I must interrupt the Minister as I have only three minutes in which to speak. Why should the decision of a Minister to establish an investigation be determined by church guidelines? The Minister's guidelines should be State guidelines and laws enacted by the Oireachtas. I would expect the Minister to be a champion of this principle.

I again appeal to the Government to extend the deadline for the inclusion of further institutions, among them the Morning Star mother and baby home, in the remit of the Residential Institutions Redress Board. Marie Therese O'Loughlin has stood outside the gates of Leinster House day and night for many weeks. It is shameful that she was forced to do so.

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