Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

What survivors are saying to me is that there is no clinical or medical reason somebody who spent six months or less in a mother and baby home would have been treated differently from somebody who spent more than six months there. They fail to see what the criteria are. I know there is an interdepartmental group, but they are saying that they spent time in these mother and baby homes. They suffered and had trauma and they are carrying that with them. There is no medical or any other scientific threshold by which these survivors should be left out of the redress scheme.

While they have gotten help in terms of the tracing and all that goes with that, when we look at what is available, such as GP cards and all that type of thing, they are an ageing population, and it is incumbent on us all to do something for these people more than what is being done at the moment.

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