Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)

I await the next missive from the Ceann Comhairle on this matter as well.

On the Tánaiste's Department of Education and Science brief, yesterday there was a ceremony by the survivors of Bethany Home, which was a residential institution for children, at an unmarked grave for 40 children who died, 27 of them in the space of a single year, in Bethany Home. The Department of Health and Children has deemed that Bethany Home was within the regulatory and supervisory framework of the State under the then Department of Health but I am not so sure that the Department of Education and Science has accepted that. Can she accede to the request of the survivors that Bethany Home would be added to the legislation, the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002?

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