By Michelle Devane, PA
More women will die without knowing whether their child is “rotting in the ground or in a septic tank” unless legislation is passed to allow the excavation of unmarked graves in all Irish institutions, a survivor of one mother and baby home has said.
Alice Coughlan, a survivor of the Bessborough institution, described the Government’s Burials Bill as “divisive” and said she does not support it wholeheartedly, but that it needs to be passed so there can be “no more delays”.
Ms Coughlan, who is a member of the Collaborative Forum of Former Residents of Mother and Baby Institutions, made the comments at the Children’s Committee, which met to discuss the Bill which would allow the exhumation and reburial of bodies at mother and baby institutions.