Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have two matters. The Minister last took Leaders' Questions on 3 April and, on that occasion, I raised the issue of the Bethany Home with him. He will recall that the previous day, 2 April, a memorial stone had been unveiled to the more than 200 infants and children who died in that mother and baby home in Rathgar. At that point, the Minister committed to contacting the then Minister for Justice and Equality with a view to reviewing that case. I am very disappointed that the promising words he said in April were very promptly rowed back on subsequently by his ministerial colleague. Now that the Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald, is in situ, I ask again that the Minister, Deputy Quinn, requests of Government to review this case because it is an ongoing and very deep injustice to the survivors concerned.

On a second issue, can the Minister advise us on the regulation of lobbying Bill? I understood this legislation was to be published and substantially progressed by the summer yet we have not seen its publication.

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