Averil Power (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 1:

“To delete all words following ‘establishing a Commission under that Act,’ and insert as follows–- calls for Schedule (11) (B) of the draft Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters) Order, 2015 to be amended by inserting after ‘their children’, ‘with particular regard to the practices employed in obtaining the consent of mothers who had recently given birth to their treatment;’;
- calls for Appendix 1(1) of the draft Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters) Order, 2015 to be amended so as to include the following homes;

- Braemar House, Cork.
- Ovoca (or Avoca) House, Co. Wicklow.
- Regina Coeli hostel, Athlone, Co. Westmeath.
- Saint Gerard’s, 39 Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1.
- Saint Joseph's Centre (aka Saint Clare's Centre), Stamullen, Co. Meath.
- Saint Patricks Infant Hospital, Temple Hill, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
- Saint Philomena’s Centre Lakelands, Stillorgan, County Dublin.
- Saint Rita’s Nursing Home, 68 Sandford Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 4.
- The Nurseries, Fermoy, Co. Cork
- Westbank Home, Greystones, Co. Wicklow;

- calls for Appendix 1(2) of the draft Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters) Order, 2015 to be amended by inserting after ‘these mothers and children.’, ‘Any former resident of any County Home will be entitled to be heard by the Commission of Investigation.’;
- calls for the Commission of Investigation, in its examination of ‘exit pathways’, to pay particular regard to the role of the Magdalene Laundries;
- notes with concern that the experiences of between 60% to 70% of all unmarried girls and women (50,000 to 62,000 of a total population of 85,000 – 90,000) whose children were forcibly or illegally adopted are excluded from the scope of the Investigation, and that this exclusion means that the number of forced and illegal adoptions and placements of children will not be investigated, calls for the role of adoption agencies, the Adoption Board and other relevant State funded or regulated institutions to be examined by the Commission of Investigation;
- calls on the Commission of Investigation to examine illegal placements of children from private homes; and
- calls on the Government to amend the draft Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters) Order, 2015 accordingly.”