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Offaly group wants Mother & Baby home burial grounds taken over by State Reporter: );  ); A Tullamore based organisation has led the call at an Oireachtas Committee hearing for all burial grounds at Mother and Baby Homes to be taken over by the State. Aitheantas, an adoptee rights organisation, were giving evidence at the hearing of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children, Disability, Equality and Integration.  The Committee was told at a discussion on the Certain Institutional Burials (A...

  There has been a call for all burial grounds at Mother and Baby Homes to be taken over by the state. A hearing of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children, Disability, Equality and Integration was told on Tuesday that “the state should take ownership of all burial grounds, both those identified and those yet to be identified, by means of compulsory purchase order,” said Maree Ryan-O’Brien of Aitheantas (Adoptee Identity Rights). More generally she said “as a recognised ...

Fundamental human rights and equality issues, including the right to life, are in play and any approach to the issues must reflect these, he says. “Specifically the right to life engages positive obligations on the State to effectively investigate suspicious deaths. Also, the right to private and family life are engaged in respect of burying loved ones and knowing the fate of family members. “In particular, the right of family members to know what happened to loved ones should form th...

The State’s human rights watchdog has criticised what it sees as a range of shortcomings in proposed legislation to allow for the exhumation of remains at mother and baby homes. The Government is under pressure to introduce the legislation as soon as possible to progress exhumations of children buried in a septic tank on the grounds of a former home in Tuam, Co Galway. The Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill will also allow fo r investigations and exhumations at oth...