Mother & Baby Homes: €800m redress scheme for 34,000 survivors announced

The scheme, which will include an enhanced medical card and two types of financial payment, will not open until late next year

While all mothers who spent time in a Mother and Baby Institution will be eligible for a payment regardless of the length of residency, children will have to have spent six months or more in an institution to qualify. File photo: Laura Hutton/RollingNews.ie

Some 34,000 survivors of mother and baby homes are to receive payments under a new €800m redress scheme.

Announcing the redress scheme, after it was approved by Cabinet, Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman said: “There is no payment or measure that can ever fully compensate or atone for the harm done.”