Adoption campaigners have again expressed concerns that tens of
thousands of people could be excluded from the mother and baby home
inquiry.
Ahead of a Dáil debate on the terms of reference for the inquiry
today, the Adoption Rights Alliance expressed fears that the
investigation will be limited to only the practices and procedures of
institutions, adoption agencies and individuals with a direct connection
to a mother and baby home. The group said that if the scope of the inquiry was not widened, tens
of thousands of mothers who gave birth in State and private maternity
homes but suffered the same fate of forced and illegal adoptions as
those born in mother and baby homes would be excluded.
