Search for mother and baby homes segment:5947040 (KildareStreet.com)

Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014): Sandra McLellan: News that the remains of some 800 babies have been found on convent grounds in Tuam has shocked the people of Ireland. Only for the efforts of a local historian, Catherine Corless, these children would forever remain nameless in the ground, forgotten in death as they were in life. This scandal of neglect and maltreatment causing the deaths of children has understandably made headlines across...
Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014): Catherine Murphy: An interdepartmental scoping exercise is fine, but it has to happen in parallel with this discovery being designated a crime scene. We know that in previous cases involving mother and baby homes, drug trials took place in some instances. Did that happen in this location? Such questions need to be part of the inquiry. Could such trials have accounted for the very high mortality rates? The...
Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014): Catherine Murphy: I wish to raise the same issue. Like everybody else, since the news broke last week I cannot get the image out of my head of 800 tiny babies and helpless children neglected, starved and eventually discarded. I respect and acknowledge the endeavours of Catherine Corless and her committee, who initially sought to erect a memorial to the children they knew had died in the home. The extent of...

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