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Social Affairs & Religion Correspondent
This week is the deadline for submissions to the Oireachtas committee that will scrutinise proposed legislation allowing excavations, exhumations and re-interment of remains at former mother-and-baby home institutions.
The General Scheme of the Certain Institutional Burials Bill was published in December 2019, following the Fifth Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into mother-and-baby homes, which highlighted major issues with burials in Bessborough and Tuam.
In its final report, the Commission found that most of the Mother and Baby Homes did not hold burial registers and it was unable to establish where the majority of the Bessborough children are buried.
A plan to acquire the last Magdalene Laundry as a permanent reminder of the suffering experience by residents is on hold after survivors complained it would be another Dublin-centric move, when most victims were hidden away down the country, it is understood.