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Last October, the Government agreed to make an order to establish such an office to oversee the excavation, recovery, analysis, identification — if ...

The legislation allows the children’s remains found at the site to be excavated, recovered, and finally given a formal burial.

The restriction on the jurisdiction of the coroner has been removed entirely from the legislation.

The Irish government is to publish new legislation on excavating mass graves like the site at Tuam.

Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman will bring the draft legislation to Cabinet this morning.

If the legislation passes in the coming months, the site of the former mother and baby institution in Tuam may finally be excavated.

Survivors say they will keep protesting until the scheme is changed.

The majority of survivors, 31, received the records via Freedom of Information requests, not GDPR.

Galway Bay FM 19 May 2021 print Galway Bay fm newsroom – Minister Roderic O’ Gorman has told an Oireachtas Committee that there’s near consensus it’s vital to intervene at the site of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. He was addressing a meeting to discuss the proposed Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill, which would allow for interventions at sites nationwide. He said children were interred in a deeply shocking manner at Tuam with no concern for their dignity, or...

Concerns over proposal to suspend coroner role at Mother and Baby home exhumations DNA testing programme may be expanded to include aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, minister says Tue, May 18, 2021, 21:52   Oireachtas committee members have expressed concern following the decision to suspend the powers of the coroner during the proposed exhumation and identification process at Mother and Baby Home burial sites. Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman told the joint committee on children ...