Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply. Many of the victims of the mother and baby homes are very anxious about when the payments and enhanced medical cards will be provided. People live in a practical world and they have to survive. Will the Minister give an indication of how and when the payments will be made and enhanced medical cards will be provided? Has an analysis been done on the age profile of the people involved who are likely to receive compensation? One of the problems is that many of them, by definition, must be very elderly at this point. Therefore, every year that passes before we get to the stage of providing payments, more people will have passed away or another part of their life will be gone, which will shorten the benefit of those payments to them considerably.

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