Seanad debates
Wednesday, 14 June 2023
Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage
10:30 am
Victor Boyhan (Independent) | Oireachtas source
I will be very quick. I just want to say that I too have concerns. Senator Ruane articulated the issue very well. Part 2 of Schedule 1 refers to "St. Kevin’s Institution (initially the Dublin Union), Dublin" and lists the concluding year as 1935. I was born there in 1961. That is where it is wrong for starters. I know at least 30 or 40 people who were born there in the mid-1960s. This institution was a place that was very regularly, under very stressful sets of circumstances, facilitating births and within 24 hours transferring children to State institutions and orphanages in Dublin.
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