Seanad debates
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage
1:00 pm
Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source
Yes, but as I said the scheme does not recognise or engage in circumstances such as, for example, racial abuse or forced family separation. Is the Minister saying the waiver applies to those issues? In that context, this does not look like a non-adversarial approach. If this were a blanket piece of a redress scheme being put forward, which the Minister was trying to slim down, surely the waiver should only apply to those matters covered by the scheme, and not to other matters explicitly not covered by the scheme.
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