Letters to the Editor: Calls for Westbank redress being ignored

'Westbank Orphanage residents not also in the Bethany Home (1922-72), of whom I am one, are not part of the group of 459 survivors who received mother and baby home compensation payments'

The Mother and Baby Home Commission of Inquiry, in its second interim and final reports, said former residents of the Westbank Orphanage (Greystones, Wicklow) were due redress under the 2002 Residential Institutions Redress scheme. Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman and the government ignored that recommendation. Picture: Damien Storan/PA

Thu, 15 Aug, 2024 - 01:00

Westbank Orphanage residents not also in the Bethany Home (1922-72), of whom I am one, are not part of the group of 459 survivors who received mother and baby home compensation payments.

The Mother and Baby Home Commission of Inquiry, in its second interim and final reports, said former residents of the Westbank Orphanage (Greystones, Wicklow) were due redress under the 2002 Residential Institutions Redress scheme.