Lynn Ruane (Independent) | Oireachtas source

In that case I will come back to the co-located sites. We have the mother and baby home aspect. We are saying that the legislation only recognises the mother and baby home aspect. It is based on a person's residency records and not in relation to the hospital that is on that site. Again I go back to the fact that what a person experienced on the hospital site does not have anything to do with what the person experienced in the mother and baby home on the same co-located sites. That reaches later into the waiver position even with the amendment, that we cannot get people to sign a waiver that they cannot talk about something that happened to them in the maternity hospital aspect of it, if we are not going to recognise that maternity hospital aspect of it in relation to the legislation. The legislation recognises what happened within the mother and baby institution but something else happened in the hospital and they are separate for the purposes of the legislation so they have to be separate for the purpose of the waiver later on.