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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 (Authorised Interventions) Bill on Tuesday, April 27 that “the state should take ownership of all ...

By Michelle Devane, PA More women will die without knowing whether their child is “rotting in the ground or in a septic tank” unless legislation is passed to allow the excavation of unmarked graves in all Irish institutions, a survivor of one mother and baby home has said. Alice Coughlan, a survivor of the Bessborough institution, described the Government’s Burials Bill as “divisive” and said she does not support it wholeheartedly, but that it needs to be passed so there can be “no more delays”. Ms Coughlan, who is a member of the Collaborative Forum of Former Residents of Mothe...

  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 key stakeholder group our primary objective is that reform of the law in this area should be victim-...

Taoiseach says new tracing legislation will be advanced The Taoiseach says new tracing legislation for those affected by illegal adoption will be advanced as a priority. His comments come after an RTÉ Investigates revealed thousands of Irish babies were illegally adopted over several decades, with many unaware they had been adopted or that it was illegal. Micheal Martin told his parliamentary party last night the issue is shocking, and goverment will work to ensure those affected are helped and supported. Founder of adoptee rights group, Aitheantas, Maree Ryan-O'Brien, says this ...