Bethany survivors must no longer be exempt from redress scheme

Derek Leinster (Letters, Jul 28) rightly expresses his disdain of those in government who remain equivocal on cherishing all the children of the nation equally.

It seems that abused children of the Bethany Home are less cherished by the State than those children of similar institutions. I do not wish to create another false dawn for Mr Leinster, but perhaps he might detect a glimmer of hope that justice, so long denied to him and others, might be on the horizon.

In her address to the MacGill Summer School on the Children’s Referendum (Irish Examiner, Jul 28), Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald said that she accepted that Ireland had a “nationally shameful record on protecting children”.