Department says consulting firm was hired due to 'urgency' in setting up mother and baby home redress scheme
The government has hired OAK Consulting to oversee the consultation process at a cost of €20,000.
The government has hired OAK Consulting to oversee the consultation process at a cost of €20,000.
Survivors say they were not informed their testimony would be destroyed.
Survivors will be asked to attend a separate hearing so they can raise any questions or concerns they have.
The department said no physical copies of the report were made available ahead of its online release.
The report will be published on the week of 11 January, Minister Roderic O’Gorman has confirmed.
The government released a statement about the Mother and Baby Homes this evening.
When I was born I weighed just 3lbs 3oz and was expected to die. I survived but faced persistent bullying about my condition well into adulthood, writes Edwina Wrenn.
The 20-page file was written in the 1980s, and was brought to the attention of survivors through an FOI request.
The death toll is expected to worsen considerably as so many regions have yet to be heard from in the aftermath of the quake.
The pope met a group of eight survivors this evening.
The Commission of Investigation could start as early as this summer.
At least nine people died in Tuesday’s earthquake in the popular tourist city of Hualien.
Six adults and a baby were on board the dinghy.
More than 130 were hurt in the fire, the country’s worst for 15 years.
Survivor Peter Mulryan was born in the Tuam mother and baby home in Galway and lived in the institute for four and half years.
While families welcomed the recent awarding of a unit citation and Bonn Jadotville medal, it is hoped eight of the men will be specifically awarded for their bravery.
Iran is observing a day of national mourning for victims of earthquake which killed more than 400 people on Sunday.
An Irish-Filipino family were caught up in the Barcelona terror attack last week.
A report launched today criticises the State’s treatment of victims, which it says has caused further trauma.
“Institutional Ireland” is still failing survivors of residential institutions, writes Conrad Bryan.
The deadly landslide, which struck late on Friday evening, resulted from days of heavy rains.
Many volunteers gathered on the shoreline broke down in tears on hearing the latest strandings appeared to be over.
Minister Flanagan said we must be vigilant in standing against fundamentalist ideologies.
More than 25 people are believed to have been staying at the hotel when it was hit.
The horrific discovery was made yesterday by a Doctors without Borders (MSF) rescue ship.
The earthquake is the biggest tragedy of its kind in Ecuador in 67 years.
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They will be housed in a car park adjacent to Ballyogan Works Depot.
Dublin councillor Francis Timmons, who grew up in a mother and baby home in the 1970s, is calling for James Reilly to take a look at redress schemes for survivors.
It says, “The decision is dictated by the need to achieve the best use of limited available resources.”
Independent TD Clare Daly recently said that recommendations made by the United Nations have not been met.
The women will be eligible for a range of health services from the start of July.
It is unknown if there are any survivors.
One has set up a fundraising page to help with the aid effort.
The Department of Foreign Affairs here has confirmed all 170 Irish in affected regions have been accounted for.
The camp was liberated by the Soviet Red Army on 27 January 1945
Between 1940 and 1945, some 1.1 million people, including one million Jews, perished in the twin death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
There has been some difficulty in those who underwent the procedure accessing their medical records.