Letters to the Editor: Temple Hill survivors have to go to court to get into redress scheme
Michael Grant was born in Sean Ross Abbey but, at just four weeks of age, on November 23, 1949, he was separated from his mother and moved to Temple Hill in Dublin. Yet the State is not including Temple Hill in the mother and baby homes redress scheme. See link at the foot of page. File picture: Gareth Chaney
Why have we got to the point where middle-aged and elderly survivors of mother and baby homes are forced to contact lawyers to take a test case to the High Court on July 21 and 22, to seek to include homes that are currently outside the remit of the State mother and baby homes redress scheme?
The Government made a case for excluding Temple Hill from the scheme basically because unmarried mothers didn’t reside there with their children, ie it was a hospital for children and not a ‘mother and baby home’.
