Minister 'erred in law' in ruling out two homes from mother & baby homes redress scheme

Landmark ruling as High Court judge directs children's minister to consider adding two homes to scheme 

Marie Thornton and John Duncan Morris outside the courthouse in Dundalk in July 2025 as a judicial review to add institutions to the mother and baby redress scheme got underway. Picture: Ciara Wilkinson

A judge in the case of two survivors who were excluded from the mother and baby home redress scheme has delivered a landmark ruling that the children’s minister was wrong in not considering adding two homes to the compensation deal.

Marie Thornton, who is a survivor of Temple Hill in south Dublin and John Duncan Morris who was in Stamullen in Co Meath had taken the High Court action over being excluded from the redress scheme.