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Denial of information which causes additional trauma and distress must end
12th January 2021 - Mary Seery-Kearney
The Government must ensure that adopted individuals have the right to access their birth records and information as a fundamental human right, and put an end to their additional trauma, a Fine Gael Senator has said.
Mary Seery-Kearney was speaking following the publication today of The Final Report of the Commission of Investigation on Mother and Baby Homes, which documents events that occurred in 14 mother-and-baby homes and four county homes over a 76-year period.
Senator Seery-Kearney, Fine Gael’s Seanad Spokesperson on Children, Disability, Equality, Integration and Privacy Rights, said, “The Final Report of the Commission of Investigation on Mother and Baby Homes highlights a period of severe trauma in Irish history, a period which caused untold suffering for women and children across the country and across many decades.
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