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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...part of the report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes that I remember which detailed a county manager going into one of the county homes and deciding who was going to the Magdalen laundry from the mother and baby home. The involvement of some of the local authorities in the running of those institutions and making those kinds of decisions was more than one might...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...are rectified. Survivors will rightly reject it and they will be supported by society. Limitations, caveats and waivers were found in previous redress schemes for survivors of institutional and clerical abuse and Magdalen laundries. The difference now is that we will not stand for it. In the past week, we have got a sense of the anger and frustration at this scheme. The opposition to...

National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jun 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...system, administered in many cases by nuns, abused generations of girls and women, and led to the death of thousands of infants and young children. This included the Religious Sisters of Charity who ran Magdalen laundries and residential institutions for children. We are still dealing with the legacy of these abuses as the State rallies to limit survivors' rights, their access to the...