Survivors want Bethany Home in redress scheme

THE survivors of a Protestant home for unmarried mothers where more than 200 babies died have asked for the Government’s position on including it in the redress scheme.

Just last October, while in opposition, Junior Minister Kathleen Lynch said the Government must “do the decent thing and end this outrage”.

The Bethany Survivors Group, headed by Derek Leinster, has fought for years to have the home recognised as a state-run institution, despite what it calls a “cover up” to exclude it from the Residential Institutions Redress Scheme.