Six-month requirement for mother-and-baby home redress ‘a sword of Damocles’

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The requirement for survivors of mother and baby homes to have spent at least six months in an institution to be eligible for redress has been labelled a “sword of Damocles”.

The Government’s Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill is continuing through the Dáil, and entered committee stage on Tuesday.