The Government’s set to consider proposals on redress for survivors of mother and baby homes in the next few weeks.
The Irish Times reports the Children’s Minister will bring a memo to Cabinet at either the end of this month or the start of July.
However, it’s unlikely that Cabinet will reject the final report of the Commission of Investigation into the homes.
Pressure is mounting on members of the commission to appear before Children’s Oireachtas Committee to answer questions about their work.
Deputy Kathleen Funchion is the Committee Chair and Sinn Féin TD for Carlow Kilkenny.
She says certain areas of the report need to be corrected urgently.
“I really think it’s important that the report is accurate and that it reflects what survivors’ lived experience was” she explains. “We actually know now that there’s no way that could be the case, because for the vast majority of people that gave evidence, it wasn’t included. But I think we need to look at that process and deal with the redress scheme too- I could never understand why it has to be one or the other. I just don’t think that’s fair to survivors.”
