Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I was at an extraordinary conference in Boston last week. It brought together many top-class Irish scholars as well as some international scholars. It was a privilege to be there, I learned a lot, and I am taking much of it into account as we move forward. On the legislation itself and whether that has the potential to form the basis for the use of a template or model for other sites, should that be required, I expect that it could and I hope that it will. That is a decision that has to be made once the people gather together to begin to develop the approach. It does, however, seem a reasonable one.

In respect of the committee, perhaps it will be the Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs. The issue is that the legislation to be created relates primarily to issues of justice as well as coming within the context of the mother and baby homes. That will again be decided in the context of development of the legislation.

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