Just over €65m paid out in mother and baby home redress scheme

Labour leader Ivana Bacik has also hit out at the majority of religious orders who were involved in running mother and baby homes who have refused to pay into the scheme. File picture: Niall Carson/ PA

Just over €65m has been so far paid out under the mother and baby home redress scheme.

However, renewed calls have been made to end the "arbitrary exclusion" from the scheme of people who spent less than six months in a home as well as those who were in institutions not named in the final report.