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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Oct 2023)
Leo Varadkar: ...Deputy Tóibín's question related to the possibility of a State apology to the Traveller community. He spoke about the attempt for decades to assimilate the Traveller community, which was wrong and should not have happened. I recall that under the Government led by Enda Kenny, and with a lot of leadership from the Minister of State at the time, Deputy Stanton, we as a State...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Oct 2023)
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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Oct 2023)
Leo Varadkar: ...State. In February 2013, the then Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, issued an apology on behalf of the Government in Dáil Éireann to women who were resident in the Magdalen laundries for the hurt done to them and for any stigma and trauma experienced by reason of their residence in those institutions. The Government followed up on this through the establishment of the Magdalen restorative...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Oct 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach mentioned the State apology to mothers and children who went through the mother and baby home institutions, but the fact is that approximately 24,000 people who went through those institutions as children were excluded from the redress scheme. The redress scheme is still not open for applications, which is pretty incredible given the age of many of these people. The exclusion...