Calls to have coroners investigate mass graves at mother and baby homes Cate McCurry and Michelle Devane, PA 14 April, 2021 12:05
Coroners in the Republic of Ireland should be instructed to investigate the mass graves at mother and baby homes, survivor groups and experts have said.
Legal expert Phil Scraton said that while costs will be unprecedented, a price cannot be put on truth and accountability.
The Oireachtas Children’s Committee has heard from a range of experts and campaigners as it scrutinised the Industrial Burials Bill.
The proposed legislation will enable an agency to be set up to oversee exhumations of remains at former mother and baby home institutions.
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13 April 2021
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – There will be a strong Tuam involvement at tomorrow’s Oireachtas Children’s committee hearing on inappropriate burials at certain institutions operated by, or on behalf of the state
It will focus on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Certain Institutional Burials Authorised Interventions Bill and consider the establishment of an Agency to carry out such interventions.
This is the Bill intended to allow for exhumations at the sites of Mother and Baby Homes such as those in Tuam and Bessborough.
Speaking ahead of tomorrow’s event, Deputy Funchion said they’ve agreed to hold this special meeting with four sessions spread over one day to hear the views of the witnesses on this important legislation.
When the authorities fail to act, says Susan Lohan, “often it’s left to the arts community to highlight egregious human rights abuses”.
The Abbey Theatre’s latest project is a case in point, the co-founder of the Adoption Rights Alliance believes. This St Patrick’s Day it will stream a new production entitled
Home: Part One. Devised as a response to January’s long-awaited report on mother and baby institutions, it features 46 women Lohan among them including survivors, public figures and performers reading survivor testimonies and excerpts from reports on the homes system from our national stage.
It comes after the recent dissolution of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes against calls from survivor groups for it to be extended. It also follows an RTÉ investigation into illegal adoptions and the announcement of findings from an independent review into adoption practices. This review estimated there may be as many as 20,000 “suspicious”